Jan KOPP is a visual artist, born in 1970, in Frankfurt, Germany. Lives and works in Paris, France. Since 2003 he presented solo and collective exhibitions, performances, public works and collections in New York, Paris, Lille, Rennes, Nancy, Reims, Bordeaux, Lyon, Barcelona, Singapore, Moscow, Zurich, Basel, Köln, Guangdong, Canton – China, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Maastricht, Helsinki, Tyr –Liban, Berlin, He collaborated with Alain Buffard, choreographer Marco Berrettini and the Melk Prod* Company. He was artist in residence at théâtre Pôle Sud, with Marco Berrettini/Melk Prod*, Strasbourg, France; Atelier d’artistes des Arques (Musée Zadkine, Paris), Lot, France, and PS1, New York, USA (AFAA). His works are presented in public collections like: Im Treibhaus, Collection Neuflize Vie ABN/AMRO; Quelques mouvements cycliques, Collection publique d’art contemporain du Conseil général de la Seine-Saint-Denis, France; News from an unbuilt city, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France. Currently part of the permanent collection in MOCA Lyon, France; Drawings for “No Paraderan”, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Taming the Alien/Final Races, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Westlich, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Amoco, Frac Ile-de-France, France; Monstres (rep.), Frac Ile-de-France, France; Nowherelands, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, France. I very gladly accepted the invitation to join Teaching the Teachers, during the eXplore dance festival, an invitation to take “time to think”. I very gladly came, since, as a visual artist, the world of dance represents for me a very specific source of inspiration. I might look at dance as being visual art. What interests me under that aspect is the absence of any other material than what a performer installs within a given time. It is the unstableness and the economy of means