© Sander van der Schaaf

PERPETUUM

Katja Heitmann (Hamburg) 

Katja Heitmann collects and preserves ‘human movement’. More than 2,500 people have already donated their personal movements. In PERPETUUM, Light Festival visitors will now encounter ‘movement donors’ who took part in a workshop in Leipzig. They will become visible on a monumental scale on 9 October. Light Festival visitors will stand opposite them and hear the stories behind the movements. In a sea of light, their own movement will also become visible. 

At the project workshop, people from a wide range of areas of urban society came together. The participants reflected Leipzig’s diversity: employees from companies such as DHL worked just as enthusiastically as pupils from Leipzig schools and course participants from VILLA. 

© Emily Hoppe

PERPETUUM at a glance

Dittrichring 12–16

Location

Immersive video installation

Project type

Katja Heitmann, Hamburg

Artist

© Alina Görmar

Artist Katja Heitmann in profile

Portrait einer Frau mit kinnlangen, dunklen Haaren und schwarzem Oberteil
© Hanneke Wetzer

Katja Heitmann works at the intersection of choreography and installation. She explores what moves people and develops pared-back, precise visual spaces. As a ‘choreographic sculptor’, she investigates movement as a material and focuses her work on clear concepts. Her projects often emerge through dialogue with urban communities.