Kim Walz works between choreography, performance, stage & costume - digital & theatrical. His work is about ambivalent identity constructions that arise under the pressure of self-optimization. Experimenting with mechanical devices that function as impulse generators for the body is an intended part of his artistic research. In the aesthetic and artistic means, the multidisciplinary artist searches for non-personalized modes of expression that show themselves in a holistic substrate. He is looking for possibilities to make the dystopia experienceable for the recipients through an emotional narrative. He lives and works in Berlin.
His video work Prototype Peer is about ambivalent identity constructions that arise under the pressure of self-optimisation. Taking up fragmentary motifs from Ibsen's drama Peer Gynt, the update Prototype Peer follows the scanning of the digital and real worlds of experience that pass by and shape a contemporary individual. The narration starts in a distorted, unnoticeably slow zoom out at prototype Peer and eventually expands to include external influences. Eventually, an entire digital topography becomes visible. In the process, the physical and mental endurance of this individual, this prototype, is tested. In dance-like improvised abstraction, Prototype Peer negotiates the certainties and uncertainties of the staging of the ego. Manuel Vogel's sound composition drives the protagonist through the chapters of his life. Coming from dance and theater, Kim's work is transdisciplinary and searches for the limits of the self.