FROM BREATH TO MATTER | Salon #8
with MYRIAM VAN IMSCHOOT and ANDARA SHASTIKA
Vocal frequencies travel in and out of boundaries: bodies, land, meaning. The raw forms of syllables ascend and descend in the mouth before splitting apart from their inherent polyphony as vocal texture leverages its identity. These borderlands harbour the distortions and contortions of verbalised language. Within a set of walls, phonic osmosis can offer an experienced sensation of shared belonging that rebels against borders. Salon #8 brings together vocalists who all strip back simplification from its confinement in localised identities, bringing earnest singularities to the sincere articulation of a community.
FROM BREATH TO MATTER is a space for experimentation that explores the voice as a medium, situated in between performance, dance, and new music. The first iteration in December 2017 announced itself with a question: “How can the voice strip bare of messages and become perceivable as a politically charged medium?”
WHERE: Kunsthaus KuLe, Auguststrasse 10, 10117 Berlin
WHEN: 29.02.2020, 20:00
Suggested Donation: 10–15€
Salon #8 is curated by Jule Flierl and Mika Hayashi Ebbesen in collaboration with Kunsthaus KuLe and THE WORLD IS SOUND (TWIS).
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SALON #8 PROGRAM:
ANDARA SHASTIKA
“OCCLUS-”
The politeness of foreigners—who speak your accents, apologise for slippage and are quick to correct themselves—requires virtuosic flexibility. ‘occlus-’, which means ‘shut up’, deals in turn with (self-)restraint: The artist will perform German words of Arabic, Persian, Turkish or Malay origins while obstructing airflow at every sound that only exists in the German borrowings.
Andara Shastika (born 1992, Indonesia) is an artist living and working in Kassel, where she studied visual arts at the Kunsthochschule. Working in the intersection of media and performance, Shastika’s experimentation with voice has been unfolding throughout her own practice as well as in projects with others: In 2018 she joined the hardcore band Orang Orang as vocalist and provided the voice in the audio release of artist Ipek Burçak’s book “The Autistic Turn” (Well Gedacht 2019). Her latest research explores how a language defines a body and its foreignness, haunting and transforming it.
https://vimeo.com/axaxasmlo
https://soundcloud.com/cursess
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MYRIAM VAN IMSCHOOT
“GAESTEN”
Gaesten is about sharing a practice; to hone the frequencies and tickle the air. It is inspired by howling at demonstrations, considering the available vocal potential in a situation of gathering that spirals with and through bodies.
Myriam Van Imschoot is a Brussels-based artist working in performance, film, and installation with the voice as the constituent agent on the tangents of bruitism and ecology, field recording and old vernacular customs. She runs Oral Site, a publishing house for artist publications that consider orality as an important vector for transmission; within this environment she curates a series on sound poetry, Volume SP. A recurring interest in her art is the role of anachronism or old popular remnants and lingering customs that defy the narrative of modern progress.
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Logo by Kris Vango Howard
