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10 Nov 2023 – 13 Jan 2024
The feminist philosopher Rosi Braidotti describes the voice as ‘a unique audio footprint of the human soul.’ However, nowadays many voices that sound human, such as those of voice assistants, are artificially generated. Current deepfake voices or ‘voice clones’ go one step further by making voices say things they never said: ‘You have a missed[...]
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Fri 23 Jun & Sat 24 Jun 2023
An Interdisciplinary Symposium with Lectures, Lecture Performances, Workshops and Performances Two days of intensive exchange with artists, researchers, scientists and musicians will take place during the symposium vocal creatures. From the perspectives of visual art, music, performance and theory, the contributions form a polyphonic interplay of physical and post-physical voices that address the relevance of[...]
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16 Jun – 19 Aug 2023
The exhibition Stimme erleben (experiencing the voice) presents five selected positions of sound art that deal with the phenomenon of the voice: from the origin of human sound production, to the poetry of phonemes beyond language, to the production of the voice with analogue-machine-hybrids to its slow technical fading out. The media artist Valie Export[...]
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21 Apr – 3 Jun 2023
What happens when voice is documented? How are memory, storytelling and history preserved, and what is lost in the process? The exhibition Talking Heads: Archival Echoes presents three artistic positions on archiving of ‘voice.’ Archives are not only understood here as documentation. They are a productive medium for telling personal, collective and political stories. The[...]
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14 Dec 2022 – 4 Feb 2023
The exhibition and publication project presents marginalised voices of 1980s’ artists in West Germany. It combines historical and contemporary forms of subculture, queerness, performative and collaborative ways of working. Tabea Blumenschein (1952−2020), Hilka Nordhausen (1949−1993) and Rabe perplexum (1956−1996) were eccentric voices of the eighties. Deviating from social norms, the three artists acted in Berlin,[...]
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26 Aug – 23 Sep 2022
The exhibition Battle Cry offers young Ukrainian curators, artists and their international colleagues an opportunity to raise their artistic voices beyond despair and the desire to cry out about the consequences of war. Some of the works refer directly to the current war in Ukraine, but the exhibition’s range of topics is broader: power relations,[...]
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11 Aug – 14 Aug 2022
With: Sibylle Fischer (vocals), Rafał Dziemidok (performance), Markus Zugehör (pianist) Inga Levant (direction), Dragan Matić (space), Petra Korink (costumes) Performances: Thu 11 August, 7.30 pm Sat 13 August, 7.30 pm Sun 14 August, 6 pm La Voix humaine is a mono-opera by the French composer Francis Poulenc, composed after a play by Jean Cocteau published[...]
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9 Jun – 30 Jul 2022
Catherine Lorent, visual artist, musician and art historian (PhD), creates complex Gesamtkunstwerks of voice, painting, drawing, sculpture, performance and popular and classical music in theatrical settings – hybrid installations that play with baroque references and dissolve boundaries of art genres. Different format drawings of strange chimaeras and peculiar coats of arms are mounted on the[...]
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13 Apr – 28 May 2022
Humans are social and political beings and their voices are essential as the physical site of the social realm (Dieter Mersch) The voice is never just a tool of articulation, but is always linked to action. It becomes political in institutionalised practices like the right to vote, voting and the counting of votes. People gain[...]
