Echoes, Ghosts, Songs & Soils

In the organizer's words:

The performance program "Echoes, Ghosts, Songs & Soils" takes place as part of the exhibition "Vessel & Voyager" of the JUNGEN AKADEMIE and activates the Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg into a breathing, singing, vibrating resonance vessel. In four chapters, spaces will be created for encounters, lingering and exchange between performers, visitors, artists and their works.

Concerts, readings, performances, participatory installations and audiovisual works embed the exhibition's leitmotifs - vessel and voyager - in an immersive, performative event. "Echoes, Ghosts, Songs & Soils" is carried by the chorus of protesting voices, the unfolding of soundscapes and songs, the pulsation of bodies and territories and the articulation of intimate spheres through language.

With the fellows:
Logan February, Éléonore de Duve, Huihui Cheng, Claudia Durastanti, Jug Đorđević, Isabel Cruz, Regina Menke, Sophie Seita, Franziska Wenning, Sinan Samanli, Hrishikesh Pawar

And the artists:
ensemble mosaik, Lea Barletti & Annette Kopetzki, Rachel Elizabeth Skipor, Anja Gast, Rémy Bocquillon & Maximilian Jean-Luc Ahl, Sasha Amaya, Saeed Asadsangabi & Eve Singleton and others.

About the individual works

A sound-based, participatory performance by theater director Jug Đorđević marks the beginning. The background to the work is the protest movements against the Serbian government in response to the Novi Sad train station accident.

In her choreographic work, dancer Isabel Cruz enters into a dialog with her deceased father. Inspired by the haptics of the academy building, physical resonance spaces and contemplative moments of mourning unfold.

The choreographer and dancer Hrishikesh Pawar returns to the role of the dancer and presents two autobiographical works, choreographed by Academy member Arila Siegert.

With two pieces, composer Huihui Cheng creates a performative listening space at the interface of sound, theatrical gesture and visual projection.

In his concerto for string quartet, composer Sinan Samanli unfolds sound as a fluid landscape, referring to images of the waterfall and the cascade respectively.

Through a network of perceptions that connects the many layers of a life, the writer Éléonore de Duve creates the world of her protagonist Sophia: her tragedy and behind it - backwards in time - the possibility of a new beginning.

The eco-feminist performance by director and choreographer Franziska Wenning and the audiovisual reading by writer Claudia Durastanti merge inscribed stories of bodies and territories. In the twilight between day and night, dance and literature open up a space in which connection with the ground, gravity, magical thinking and transcendence can be experienced anew.

The artist and scientist Sophie Seita activates the graphic scores of her installation in the exhibition hall through a performance. The "moor" becomes a metaphor for depth and permeability, the installation a playground for language.

Poet Regina Menke reads texts from the poetry cycle Schild und Spiel und Idylle, gekehrte und um-. The texts revolve around springtails, gaps between teeth, the difficulty of keeping the pronouns "I" and "you" apart and the question of whether the landscape shouldn't be more tangible.

The poems from Nude Imperative by Logan February move between the poles of love and devotion, discipline and inner conflict, immanence and transcendence.

Concerts, readings, performances, participatory installations and audiovisual works embed the exhibition's leitmotifs - vessel (Vessel) and voyager (Voyager) - in an immersive, performative event.

As part of the "Vessel & Voyager" exhibition at the JUNGEN AKADEMIE

Price information:

6 EUR (Reduced: 4 EUR)