Excited to be part of ANIMA MUNDI with my performance Intangible Sound of Contact.
Tickets here.
Sun Oct 6
15:30 Doors
16:00 Performance Laura Mello (outside)
18:00 Concert Alex Stolze feat. Ben Osborn
Kulturkirche Luckau, Nonnengasse 1, Luckau, DE
Program ANIMA MUNDI
Intangible Sound of Contact uses sound as a tool to investigate the moment of first contact between different cultures. The artist understands the word culture in a broader, micro- to macro-sociological sense and asks questions such as: What is the sound of cultural contact? How can cosmovisions be transported with sound? How does this knowledge influence us today? Is there a postcolonial way of listening? How does it sound?
The project reflects the history of the early 20th century, the time of so-called neo-colonialism, flourishing industry and the run on energy sources. Starting with the founding of the German colony of Blumenau in Brazil in 1850 (Laura Mello’s birthplace), the artist draws a line that leads up to the present day and raises questions about the consequences of racial supremacy and dichotomies such as savagery vs. civilization.
ANIMA MUNDI is a European exchange project and network of project spaces for sound art and contemporary music, record labels and actors in experimental music scenes from Germany, Poland and Ireland that produces innovative works of contemporary music and sound art on the experience of environmental relationships, climate change and ecological issues and presents them to a broad local audience. The musically and sonically diverse works and formats – concerts, concert and sound performances, field recordings, sound and multimedia installations as well as sound and audio walks – are intended to enable people of all ages and social backgrounds to get to know sound art in all its diversity and to gain sensual and direct, active access to their environment and its social and historical dimensions at the respective locations, particularly through listening.
The fifth edition of ANIMA MUNDI, which will take place from 12th September to 4th November 2024 in Berlin, various regions in Brandenburg, and in Poland, will focus on the audio walks of the Irish project SLEEPERTOWN from OpenGorey. The 11 audio walks are accessible at any time during the project period via smartphone, Echoes app and headphones and can be experienced free of charge. On selected days, there will be guided tours on site, see programme, for which tickets can be purchased. The audio walk-programme will be accompanied by several concert and sound performance events in Berlin, Eberswalde, Cottbus and Luckau as well as in Gorzów and Szczecin. Tickets are also available for these events.
