Barking Dogs United: Human Dollz
- Crash! Boom! Bau!
What are
they? An art or a design object? A band? A ballet? Icons? A Bauhaus
irony?
Inspired by
Oskar Schlemmers “Triadic Ballet” from 1922, three exceptional figures
are motioning themselves in costumes, which were manufactured entirely
out of items found at hardware stores.
The group
„Human Dollz“ consists of Pyramid Doll, Sphere Doll, and Cube Doll, and
is active in the fields of music, video, performance and fashion.
For their
videos, the Human Dollz use diverse Bauhaus locations, such as the
Gropius office at the Van-De-Velde Building of the Bauhaus University,
the Memorial for the Märzgefallene, and the “Haus am Horn” in Weimar,
or Oskar Schlemmers Meisterhaus and the Bauhaus stage in Dessau, as
well as the Bauhaus archive in Berlin.
In their
videos, the three human dolls hatch into the roles prescribed to them
by the existing spatial situations. They try to experience history in
the Bauhaus locations themselves, and relive them according to their
own interpretation.
„Human
Dollz“ is an artistic project, as a feature of the Bauhauslab 09
festival.