Jazzfest Off Stage
Jazzfest Berlin went online and employed artistic work commissions, video statements and interviews as extensions of the festival into space and time. It built creative bridges into the city, into Europe and across the Atlantic, leaving behind conventional concert stages in order to listen out for the dissonances in the world ‘out there’.
Matana Roberts
Available from 30 October 2020
stay true…
Matana Roberts describes her combination of instrumental music, singing, spoken word and visual imagery as “panoramic sound quilting”. In her exclusive video for the Jazzfest Berlin, where she was a guest four years ago, she also has a clear socio-political message for us.
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Jason Moran
Available from 23 October 2020
Sayings
Seldom has the awareness of tradition and the striving for innovation gone so closely together as in the playing of this musician. In a video made exclusively for Jazzfest Berlin he transforms sayings into musical statements that are inspired by the blues tradition.
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KIM Collective
Available from 26 October 2020
It’s the End of the World (as We Know It)
In the third and final session of its series for Jazzfest Berlin Off Stage, the KIM Collective will remix the worldwide lockdown music chart into a soundtrack to the crisis that is both musically and electronically distorted, one that finds a fitting stage amid the dust sheets and renovations works in the Festspielhaus auditorium.
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Available from 2 October 2020
KIM @ HENRI
In its second video work as part of Jazzfest Berlin Off Stage, KIM Collective will reawaken Berlin’s classy hotel HENRI which, like many other hotels, has been vacant for the past few months.
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Available from 13 August 2020, 18:00
KYMN of Gratitude
“KYMN of Gratitude” is an ode to the everyday heroes of the crisis, as well as the first of three releases within a series of commissioned video works by KIM Collective.
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TRAINING feat. John Dieterich & Işıl Karataş: “3 Sekunden”
Available from 19 October 2020
Vibrations through the Glass (Işıl’s Desk, Vienna)
For the final third video of the project we end up on the desk of video artist Işıl Karataş in Austria’s capital Vienna.
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Available from 12 October 2020
Sprinkler and Birds (John’s Garden, Albuquerque)
In the second part of the video work “3 Sekunden” we travel to John Dieterich’s garden in Albuquerque (USA).
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Available from 5 October 2020
Anthill Closeup (Schillerpark, Berlin)
In an international cooperation with the US guitarist John Dieterich (known from the innovative experimental rock band Deerhoof, among others) and the Vienna-based video artist Işıl Karataş, the Berlin duo TRAINING turn their approach to an aesthetic of presence into the starting point of a collective creative process in spite of the physical distance and isolation of the lockdown.
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Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother)
Available from 16 October 2020
Untitled
In this untitled video statement, the Philadelphia-born artist Camae Ayewa, also known as Moor Mother, poetically refers to the social challenges and crises of meaning of our time.
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Talks
International Jazz Festivals in Pandemic Times
Online-Discussion on 15 August as part of Jazzwoche Berlin #2
With Tina Heine (Jazz and the City Salzburg), Martyna Markowska (Katowice JazzArt Festival), Martel Ollerenshaw (EJN, Europe Jazz Network), Murat Sezgi (3dots Istanbul/Berlin), Edin Zubčević (Jazz Fest Sarajevo, Jazz Festival Ljubljana)
Moderation: Nadin Deventer (Jazzfest Berlin)