Met o.a. Ulrike Ottinger en Christina Kubisch
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Hereafter Sonic Acts celebrates its 25 year history in 2019 with a festive anniversary edition. Since 1994, Sonic Acts has been a platform for research in art, technology, music and culture, a gathering place for artists, theorists, scientists and philosophers, and a festival for forward-looking projects, ideas and works.
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Hereafter, the festival will use its 25 year history to reflect on the rapid changes in our cultural and artistic relationship with technology, and share the enthusiasm, hope and concern that comes with it. Over the years, the festival's perspective has also changed from challenging our understanding of audiovisual experiences, to exploring the developing interplay of humans and machines, and from experimenting with tools and technologies to questioning their social repercussions and their impact on our daily lives.
Now, by reflecting on the entangled issues of power relations, neo-colonialism, technology, the rise of fascism and the implications of those practices for our environment, Sonic Acts wishes to address some of the pressing topics of our time. The festival will move through conversations with thinkers and artists at a three-day international conference, to multiple evenings filled with audiovisual performances, concerts, films, installations, an exhibition presented across several spaces in Amsterdam and club nights showcasing artists whose own nightlife operations explore some of the very same topics.
Participating artists from Germany, amongst others, are:
- Ulrike Ottinger (Konstanz) spent much of the 1960s working as a painter in Paris – where she also studied with the likes of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Louis Althusser – before launching her film career in Berlin in the early 1970s. Her first feature film, Madame X (1977), drew the interest of queer and feminist scholars. She has collaborated with Delphine Seyrig in two features from that time: Freak Orlando (1981) and Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia (1989). In 1990s, Ottinger shifted away from the theatrical extravagances to a carefully observed documentary. Her travelogues focus insightfully on the quotidian reality of everyday people. China. The Arts – The People (1985) is the first in a series of long documentaries made in the course of Ottinger's travels through Asia. In 1992, she made an eight-hour film Taiga and in 2016 the twelve-hour long Chamisso's Shadow. Her films have been shown in many film festivals and institutions such as the Cinémathèque Française, Centre Pompidou and MoMA. She has presented her photographs at Biennale di Venezia, Documenta, and Berlin Biennale. In 2011, Ulrike Ottinger received the Hannah Höch Prize from the city of Berlin for an outstanding artistic life’s work. The Concordia University in Montréal awarded her an honorary doctor of fine arts in 2018.
- Christina Kubisch (Bremen) is a pioneer of sound art installation and one of today's most prominent European sound artists. Kubisch trained as a visual artist, musician, and composer in Hamburg, Graz, Zurich and Milan. She studied flute and piano before turning to electronic music and later focusing on sound sculpture and sound installations, which often involved ultraviolet light, solar energy, and electromagnetic induction. In 2003, she began an ongoing project Electrical Walks: public walks with specially made headphones that receive electromagnetic signals from the environment and convert them into sound. She has developed 66 walks worldwide. Kubisch was Professor of Sound Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken, Germany, from 1994 to 2013. She has been a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin since 1997.
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