In the third year this is a guest Festival of Intangible Art back in the Elbphilharmonie and, in cooperation with it, will bring national and international artists from the fields of performance art and experimental music to the stages of the Kaistudio and the Recital Hall on two concert evenings (September 15-17).
The violist, performer and arranger Julia Roberts from Paris plumbs in her music theater “FAME“ the abysses of fame using the example of icons. With her body, her voice and her viola, she slips into the footsteps of Julia Roberts and Nina Simone, interprets a David Bowie classic and combines Jimi Hendrix and Maria Callas. There are not only the brilliant highlights of the celebrity to experience, but also the deep abysses that plunge the viewer into a whirlpool of emotions.
Of the Hamburg artist Hans-Christian Jaenicke takes the audience on a walk to places in the Elbphiharmonie that are normally not accessible to visitors. In its “Concert for Moving Piano”, the instrument picks up sounds from the surroundings, for example those from the port birthday party that is taking place at the same time, and stages them in a new way. Wind, light and the audience are also used, creating a complex and poetic soundscape.
Together with large paper sculptures, the “cast(s)”, the performs Swiss artist zozoTannistor aka Zoë Binetti. The sculptures are molded from the surface of the respective performance location and thus form a kind of doubling of the ‘skin of the room’, which Binetti also takes on musically. The artist uses absurd-comical breaks and an interweaving of sensory impressions to dissect hierarchies of meaning and tell them upside down as a joke – a sonic-dance-visual mosaic of the broken and comic.
Using vocal sounds of aggressiveness and brutality, sensitivity, sensuality and sexuality Sisterloops (Mühlheim/Stockholm) for her performance “Voice Noise”. The composer performers work equally with acoustic and electronic sound, body movement and image. In addition, they blur the gender-specific assignments of voices through noise and non-traditional singing with “Queer Noisemaking”.
Plastic bags and rubber suction pumps recycles the Berliner Performerin Maren Strack for her “Sonata for Pumps & Bags”. She creates air column and air pressure instruments from discarded plastic objects, scrap metal or textile remnants. In a bizarre performance, she combines the movements of sound generation into extraordinary dance scenarios.
Jumping in the air with and without an accordion awaits the spectators Andreas Borregaard (Denmark). He interprets both the work composed for him “SELF–CARE’ by Jennifer Walshe, who is internationally well-known in the new music scene, as well as his first own work between Tea Ceremony, Tourette and JS Bach.
Outdoor-Performances by and with students from the Musikhochschule Lübeck, who created their own performative works during the summer semester, as well as a free panel discussion on the topic “Composing with the body‘ are accessible free of charge. They round together with two workshops (“How to *music*” & “How to *performance*) from the festival offer.
What actually is immaterial art?
Organizing immaterial art means bringing the unconcrete, the incomprehensible to the stage. Place, time and the presence of the audience influence what is happening and what is experienced. The Festival for Intangible Art brings together actors and works from two very different areas that are otherwise almost never experienced together: classical music and the fine arts, with their sections contemporary music and performance art. Visuals and sounds are on an equal footing here in order to depict contemporary themes artistically.
Festival of Intangible Art
September 15 – 17, 2022, Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg)
Organizer: HamburgMusik / Festival for Intangible Art
Funded by the Claussen Simon Foundation and the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
Tickets: www.immateriellekunst.de
1st evening 20€, 2nd evening 15€, discounts available
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