Echo Chamber

ECHO CHAMBER – Marcus Gaab

With Echo Chamber, Marcus Gaab presents an installation that translates the fleeting energy of the performing arts into a cinematic-spatial experience. Its starting point is the live situation itself: intense, spontaneous, physical.

At the centre lies the question of identity — not as a fixed social role, but as a dynamic, self-referential system shaped within the cultural context of performance and the performing arts. The staging examines how presence emerges when the self encounters its own echo through the act of performing.

The installation brings together two video works: The Presence Is Present (ONEonONEonONE), created in collaboration with Theatertreffen / Berliner Festspiele, and Resonant Bodies, developed with Staatsballett Berlin. Both works explore performative presence — in acting as well as in dance — and transform it into a condensed cinematic form.

Three parallel projections, each with its own visual and sound track, create a field of overlapping realities that physically draws viewers into the space. Echo Chamberbecomes a resonant environment in which perception, presence and identity are negotiated in real time.

In collaboration with Theatertreffen / Berliner Festspiele and Staastballett Berlin

Shown at Haubrok Foundation in December 2025

The Presence Is Present
Cast
Wiebke Puls
Andreas Beck
Kate Strong
Carolin Conrad
Daniel Zillmann
Child performers:
Rachel Dedain, Maurice Leerman, Pepijn Loobuyck, Willem Loobuyck,
Polly Persyn, Peter Seynaeve, Elle Liza Tayou, Winne Vanacker
Barbara Nüsse
Wolfram KochEditing
Matthias SchwelmSound Editing
Peter RaheCamera
Matthias Schellenberg, Jakob Beurle, Stephan Falluchi, Daniel Obradovich

Resonant Bodies

In collaboration with Staatsballett Berlin

Dancers
Iana Salenko
Marina Duarte
Leroy Mokgatle
Mari Kawanishi
Vivian Assal Koohnavard
Emma Antrobus

Music
Ori Lichtik

Camera
Hannah Schwaiger
Kristin Freia (Steadicam)

Costumes
Kaviar Gauche

Editing
Klara Plainer

Sound Editing
Peter Rahe

Colour Grading
Sarah Salzman


Acknowledgements
Silke Neumann / Bureau N
Jozo Juric
Johanna Kühl
Polly Film
Rekorder
Delight Rent