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visions: Listening Programme
Daniella Valz Gen
The second part of SERAFINE1369’s visions programme is a series of seven audio works created by different artists and researchers that will play throughout the day. Challenging the idea that performance is a form that centers looking, the listening programme invites visitors to tune into various tones, textures and sonic forms and to allow these vibrations to enter and affect their bodies.
visions is a programme of live performance that seeks to encourage an embodied approach to engaging with live work and choreography where all bodies present are implicated and senses beyond visual sight are activated. It is an invitation to be with what is conjured, stirred up and rising to the surface of each of our particular bodies, in relation and response to environment. As such, each offering is somehow immersive. All events are free to attend and happen during regular opening hours of the Gropius Bau.
The scenography, designed by Soft Tissue Studio, subtly morphs with each intervention and proposes a space for the visitors for spreading out and arranging for the listening in whatever ways make sense for each person.
B Xovington Xam-Xumana
B Xovington Xam-Xumana self-classifies as a sound artist and strategic designer. As a producer of music, Xovington relies heavily upon their two decades of experience as a string player: releasing musical projects independently, in collaboration with other musicians, and with independent labels, each to warm critical receptions. Through their practice, Xovington contends that sonic cultures are better articulated by their categorical condition as containers to mimetic and acoustic phenomena rather than by the confines of their status as a mother to music.
B Xovington Xam-Xumana
© B Xovington Xam-Xumana
bartira
bartira’s work responds to the Information Age. The artist investigates ways in which technology-facilitated projects and experiences can challenge our understanding of contemporary art formats. The ideas in her work draw on the implications of late capitalism such as the omnipresence of technology, environmental collapse and immigration. She aims to protect healthy narratives and reclaim political imagination from the west’s domination and colonial residue.
bartira
photo: Amanda Agyei
CAConrad
CAConrad have worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021), as well as nine other books of poetry. They received a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, a Believer Magazine Book Award, and the Gil Ott Book Award. Their play The Obituary Show was made into a film in 2022 by Augusto Cascales. They teach at Columbia University in New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.
CAConrad
photo: Augosto Cascales
Daniella Valz Gen with Sammy Paloma
Daniella Valz Gen is a poet, artist and oracle. Their work explores the interstices between languages, cultures and value systems with an emphasis on embodiment and ritual. They practice divination in various forms and channel the ancient Andean role of quipucamayoc in the meeting of pattern, knotting and making meaning as a strategy to challenge linear thinking.
Sammy Paloma is an artist, poet and witch living between Bristol and Shetland, UK. She paints, hand pokes tattoos, sings an approximate falsetto, writes poems, and makes computer games. Her work is into listening to fairies, how divination disturbs linear time, grief rituals and necromancy. In 2021 she began to write a choose your own adventure book which she is still lost inside.
Sammy Paloma
Courtesy: Sammy Paloma
Gillian Walsh
Gillian Walsh is an artist from Brooklyn, NY where she has lived since birth. She makes long, formal choreographies that aim to find new ways to experience dance, time and ways of being together. In recent years, she has presented performances at The Kitchen, Performance Space New York, Performa, Danspace Project, The Watermill Center and others. Her work has been a New York Times Critics Pick. She has been in residence at The Watermill Center, MoMa PS1, Stiftung Insel Hombroich and ISSUE project room. She was an associate artist at Performance Space New York and was nominated for New York Dance and Performance Bessie awards in 2013 and 2018. She’s currently in residence at Danspace Project at St. Marks Church on the Bowery where she will premiere her next work in 2023. She has also worked as a performing collaborator for a range of NYC artists and is currently working with Richard Maxwell/New York City Players. Gillian Walsh works as a craniosacral therapist and is 1/2 of the band Gods Not Finished.
Gillian Walsh, 2019
photo: Res
nwakke
nwakke is an artist, dj and musician working with dance, video and writing. This performance identity is a means for discovery, world building and research into experience, histories, knowledge and nature. Thinking about care, thinking about relationship, thinking about freedom and safety
nwakke
photo: nwakke
Veza Fernandez
Veza Fernandez is a dance, voice and performance artist based in Vienna. Her work deals with the realms of the poetics and politics of vocal expression as a place of relation, imagination and transformation. She entangles singing, writing, dancing and speaking practices as bodily forms of study, experimentation and performance. Her pieces are sensitive and intense, casting polyphonically a convocation of voices and presences that yearn to move and to be moved. Her background stretches between philology, pedagogy, theater, music and contemporary dance; fields that in one way or another influence her artistic research and modus operandi within art making and art presenting. Her work is strongly rooted locally, infiltrating from within the underground queer scene into bigger Dance, Theater and Visual Arts Institutions. She holds a Masters in Choreography from the DAS Graduate school (Amsterdam Academy for Theatre and Dance). Her work has been shown in brut, Vienna; Tanzquartier, Vienna; Sophiensaele, Berlin; Gesnerallee, Zürich; de Singel, Antwerp; Frascati, Amsterdam; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Kunsthaus Graz; and ARTENA Art Foundation, Düsseldorf.
Concept, voice, edit: Veza Fernandez, music: Tony Renaissance, recording: Manuel Riegler
graphic and photo design/art: Ju Aichinger