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
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