David Weber-Krebs

David Weber-Krebs

Situations. Encounters. Void

David Weber-Krebs is a director, film and video maker, and performer. His work veers between theatre performances that are sometimes intimate, sometimes crowded; lecture performances; events for one spectator in public spaces; and films and videos. He explores various contexts as a basis for an experimental process, which questions the traditional relationship between the work of art and its public. The spectator is placed at the centre of the work, which plays with perception and expectations. Weber-Krebs emphasizes the place of spectacle as a shared social space. One of the recurrent features of his work is the relationship between the individual and the group as well as his ties to that community or a society and the power that that generates. David Weber-Krebs creates situations which engage the spectator in a complex dynamic between absorption in an art piece whilst maintaining his critical distance. He sometimes uses actors (ex. into the big world), a donkey (Balthazar) or minimalist sculpture (Performance, Robert Morris revisited) to do this, reducing the form to its simplest expression. The experience is almost like a projection screen, inviting the spectator to adopt a mode of active contemplation where meaning is not given but created by the spectator himself.