Give Me Your Paw! (2017)
for 4 performers

premiere: maulwerker performing music, 7.10.2017, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
performers: Henrik Kairies, Christian Kesten, Katarina Rasinski, Steffi Weismann

What is human, what is animal and what is neither? How do humanity and ‘animality’ manifest themselves on a stage? How do humans imitate animals? How do humans imitate humans who imitate animals? And what does that which we perceive as animal-like tell us about being human?
In Hülcker’s research into these questions, he unearthed a variety of material that he incorporated into various acoustic and performative situations for this composition. Human-animal relationships, hunting, and human-animal intimacy in ASMR videos were the main sources of inspiration.