Correnti Seduttive-artists

Wendelin Büchler

Peter Cusack

Alessandra Eramo

Georg Klein

Steffi Weismann

ARTISTS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

WENDELIN BÜCHLER

Wendelin Büchler (*1976 Tübingen, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. Visual Artist, Musician, Curator, Producer. He was trained in classical guitar and drawing from the age of seven. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, postgraduate course Intermedia Design. From 2005/2006 he works as Assistant in the departement Intermedia Design at the Art Accademy Stuttgart and co-curates the exhibition for art in public spaces "Camp. An Audience Campaign" and takes part in the audiovisual art exhibition "Elektronische Nacht" at the conservatory Stuttgart.

In 2006 he participates at the residency for artists and curators "Città dell'Arte: Project Uno Uno Prima - European Beginners Stage, Parma" (curated by Michelangelo Pistoletto, with Edoardo Sanguineti, Giuseppe Bertolucci and Arto Lindsay). From 2007-2009 he is artistc director of the series for contemporary music "Max.Experimentell" in Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg and he is founding member of the "Plattform für aktuelle Musik". 2008 State Diploma in Art Education. 2008 and 2009 he is co-curator of the "Festival aktuelle Musik" and artistic director of the "S'Block Festival of advanced music, audio visual art & performance" in Stuttgart. In 2009 he moves to Berlin where he founded "Corvo Records Vinyl & Sound Art Production", dedicated to international artist between sound art, visual art and electronic music. 2012-2013 he curates the music programm "EMIHAL" at the gallery Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin. With Prof. Dr. Holger Lund he runs the pop-cultural research project and music label "global pop first wave".
As musician he was member of the improvised music/performance ensemble "Les Gobelins". He performed Free Jazz and Improvised Music in Europe and the USA (a.o. with Xabier Iriondo, Gino Robair, Matthias Reinhold, Paul Hubweber, Fred Frith, DJ Jaywalk, Lisa Mezzacappa, Christian Wolfarth, Liz Allbee).
Since 2012 he works on reportage drawings realized in the public spaces of New York, Berlin, Stuttgart and Taranto. The main focus lies on the flexibillity of time in the subjective perception.

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PETER CUSACK

The artist and musician Peter Cusack (*1948 London) lives and works in London and Berlin. The main focus of his work lies on environmental sounds and acoustic ecology. He is a pioneer of "sonic journalism" which is based on the idea that valuable information about places and events related to migration and changing of technology is revealed through their sounds.
Since 2004, Cusack has been working on a project series called "Sounds from Dangerous Places". In this context, he travels to sites suffering from extreme environmental degradation caused by human action (such as Chernobyl), where he records sounds and also films and photographs. These artifacts, and additional materials such as texts related to the theme, are then elaborated into exhibitions like the the installation "Oil Fields", which deals with the oil fields on the Caspian Sea. He holds degrees in biochemistry, (Cambridge University) genetics (Edinburgh University) and from the Institut of Sonology, Den Haag. He worked for two years at the STEIM in Amsterdam. Together with Isobel Clouter he produced the environmental sound program "Vermilion Sounds" on ResonanceFM radio, London.

Peter Cusack is a member of CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice), and is a research staff member and founding member of the London College of Communication in the University of the Arts London. His artistic research brought him to Austria, Canada, Turkey, France, Azerbaijan, Sibiria and China. In 1998, Cusack started the "Your Favorite London Sound" project. The goal is to find out what London noises are found appealing by people who live in London. It has been repeated in Chicago, Beijing, and other cities. From 2006-2209 he was a research fellow on the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council's multidisciplinary "Positive Soundscapes Project". 2011/2012 he was DAAD artist in residency in Berlin with his project Berlin Sonic Places (Tuned City Festival Berlin).

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ALESSANDRA ERAMO

Alessandra Eramo (*1982 Taranto, Italy) is a sound artist, vocalist and performer who lives and works in Berlin. She was trained in classical singing, piano and music theory since an early age, she graduated with honors in visual art, experimental music and performance art at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts Milan, and at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, followed by a master degree in Communication and non-verbal languages at the University Ca' Foscari Venice. Currently she's conducting her PhD research at the University of the Arts Berlin.

For her live-performances, compositions, videos and installations she works with the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument, exploring the phonetics and the physical aspects of singing and speech, this in relationship to writing, gesture and sign in their multiple forms. Through the conjunction of sound and image, her work takes on hybrid forms between sound art, poetry and visual art. She intends sound in connection to real or imaginary territories: using found and environmental sounds, she's questioning concepts like 'identity/belonging', 'intimacy/fragility', 'unexpected/unknown', therefore the concept of noise and silence in the individual and collective experience of listening. In the past ten years her work has been presented extensively in Europe, USA and Canada a.o. at: Galerie Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, Echoraum Vienna, Liverpool Biennial, Lyd & Litteratur Festival Aarhus, Roulette New York, Sonic Circuits Festival Washington DC, S'Block Festival for advanced music Stuttgart, Festival Bandit' Mages Bourges.

In 2011 she exhibited her work 'Poetophonie' at the Padiglione Italia of the "54th Venice Biennale", by invitation of the Italian Cultural Institute Stuttgart. She is recipient of awards and residency programs including: Flimmernacht Super8 and Sound Festival Offenburg, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center New York, Berlin Senate-Cultural Affairs Departement. Since 2010 she's founder with Wendelin Büchler of the "vinyl & sound art production Corvo Records" in Berlin, where she has also co-released the LP 'Popewaffen' and her solo LP 'Come ho imparato a volare'. Besides her solo projects, she has collaborated with many international performers, poets, improvisors and composers like Gino Robair, Ingrid Schmoliner, Tomomi Adachi, Marta Zapparoli, Seiji Morimoto, Steven J. Fowler, Doug Van Nort.

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GEORG KLEIN

Sound and media artist Georg Klein (*1964 Öhringen, Germany) studied Sound Engineering, Acoustic and Digital Communication at the Technische Universität München and Technische Universität Berlin, followed by studies in Philosophy of Religion/Psychoanalysis and Ethnomusicology at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 1991-94 research project for visualisaion of language for the deaf at the TU Berlin. 1999-2000 visiting Professor at the FU Berlin. Georg Klein devotes himself primarily to site-specific installations in public spaces, combining sound with light, texts and video. His works, which have received numerous awards, often make use of confusing perceptual constellations and artistic political fakes. The main focus in his work lies on the developement of an politic-situative art term and on the transformation of space through time based techniques and concepts like interaction and participation. He earned an international reputation with the simultaneous installation "TRASA" (2004), an audiovisual bridge between Berlin and Warsaw. In 2002 he received the prestigous Deutscher Klangkunstpreis, in 2006 the Medien-Raum-Preis and a grant from the German Academy in Rome (Villa Massimo/Casa Baldi). 2010 he is Artist in Residency for six months in Istanbul, 2012 Artist in Residency quartier21, Museumsquartier Wien. 2010 Artist in Residency together with Steffi Weismann at Schloss Werdenberg, Schweiz.

2000 founding of "comaberlin: Produktion intermedialer Kunst". 2002-2005 he is chairman of the "Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik", 2003 he founds "KlangQuadrat - Büro für Klang-und Medienkunst Berlin", Cooperations witht Hauptstadtkulturfond, Goethe-Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Museum für Naturkunde. In 2013 he realized Toposonie, a topographic Composition for public space along the River Spree in Berlin.

For almost twenty years, Georg Klein is working as a free lance composer for Chamber Music, Film ("amor fati", Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 1997) und Theater (Intern. Gustav-Mahler-Kompositionspreis 1999, with Peter Zadek/Berliner Ensemble, 2004).

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STEFFI WEISMANN

Steffi Weismann (*1967 Zürich, Switzerland) is a performance artist and composer of audiovisual works based in Berlin. She studied costume and set design as well as experimental music, video and performance art at the Berlin University of the Arts. Recently she focused on situative and interactive concepts in time based arts. Since 2010 she is performing variations of her solo "LapStrap" using a soundbelt with portable audio devices and creating instant compositions with voices and field recordings.

Beside her solo work she is a member of the vocal performance group "Maulwerker" and has performed experimental music and Fluxus over many years. As a video artist she completed a number of audiovisual projects in collaboration with composers related to "Echtzeitmusik" Berlin (Annette Krebs, Antje Vowinckel amongst others). Between 1990 and 2007 her activities were strongly related to the independent art spaces "KuLe" and "ausland" in former East Berlin. She was the co-founder of artist groups and event series such as "ex machinis", "Labor Sonor" and "Fernwärme".

Steffi Weismann has been teaching performing arts at drama schools in Norway and Denmark and at the Universities of Art in Berlin-Weißensee and Braunschweig. She received grants from the Villa Aurora Los Angeles and the Braunschweig University of Art (Dorothea Erxleben-Stipendium) and the swiss prize for performance art "Sicht auf das Original" in 2009. In spring 2013 she was artist in residence together with Georg Klein at "Schloss Werdenberg" in Switzerland. Festivals, places of exhibitions and performances (selection):
Sophiensaele Berlin, General Public Berlin, Witte de With - Centre for Contemporary Art & Operadagen Rotterdam, ZKM Karlsruhe, Maerzmusik Berlin, Echzeitmusiktage Berlin, migma - performance art festival Lucerne, Joubert Park Project Johannesburg, Lem festival Barcelona, Goethe Institute Buenos Aires, Swiss Institute Rome.

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