Aufheben Ensemble
Aufheben Ensemble is a contemporary dance and physical performance project directed by Isabella Mireles Vik with a dedication to creating avant-garde, boundary-pushing performances for the stage, galleries, and impractical spaces. Aufheben was founded in 2023 as a way for Vik to create an extension of their solo work and performance research for groups of movement artists.
The movement work focuses on contemporary techniques and improvisation methodologies. The mission of Aufheben is to nurture a radically creative environment, provide new opportunities to freelance artists and create communal support with other artists. Vik manages to instill their interdisciplinary practices into complex thematics.
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Isabella MIRELES Vik
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR + CHOEREOGRAPHER
Aufheben started as a conduit for my previous years of research. I wanted to build a group project built on my philosophy of performance while providing a space to expand each artists individual pursuits and mediums.
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Lindsay Cortnar
ARTIST
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Gabrielle De La Rosa
ARTIST
"With aufheben , there is no problem about the meaning, because Hegel explains the term (in its systematically ambiguous use) as clearly as it can be explained. But there has always been controversy about how it should be rendered. One tradition allows the translator to decide whether the “cancelling” or the “preserving” moment is dominant, and to use a battery of words to render different supposed shades of meaning. But the perfect determinacy of Hegel’s logical concept forbids us to take this route (which, being the road of subjective arbitrariness, is a thoroughly bad one in any event)."