Steffi Weismann
Steffi Weismann (born May 13, 1967 in Zurich ) is a Swiss artist specializing in performance , intermedia, video art and sound art .
Life
Steffi Weismann studied at the Zurich University of Art and Design and at the Berlin University of the Arts: stage costume / set design with Martin Rupprecht , experimental music with Dieter Schnebel and visual communication with Maria Vedder . The co-founding of the free performance class in 1989 led her to performance, especially to the Fluxus tradition of the 1960s.
Since 1993 she has been a member of the ensemble Die Maulwerker (founded by Dieter Schnebel). She was active in the performance group ex machinis (1995–2001) and the Berlin production group Fernwärme - The Making of Performing Arts (2001–2007). From 2013 to 2015 she formed the female composer collective XLR-Female together with Antje Vowinckel , Liz Allbee , Anouschka Trocker and Margarete Huber .
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she co-founded the Kunsthaus KuLe (Art and Life), an artist community at Auguststrasse 10 in Berlin-Mitte, where she lived until 2002 and also co-curated various events (including Labor Sonor). As editor, she published an extensive publication on KuLe and its networks in collaboration with Ursula Maria Berzborn in 2016, which documents the ongoing attempt at a lived utopia. From 2015 to 2018 she was part of the team responsible for the artistic project space at the Kunsthaus KuLe.
Weismann received grants in 2004 in Brussels (NADINE - Center for Performance and New Media); 2007 in Johannesburg / South Africa (Kin: Be: Jozi, funded by the Swiss cultural foundation proHELVETIA), 2008 in Los Angeles (Artist in Residence at Villa Aurora ), 2009–2011 in Braunschweig (Dorothea-Erxleben-Scholarship from the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig in the field of sound art performance) and in 2014 in quartier 21 - Museumsquartier Wien .
This was followed by teaching positions at the Akademi for Scenekunst (Norway), at the Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee 2007/2008 and at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig 2009–2011. Weismann lives in Berlin.
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The artist crosses the border between performance, video and music. Her work is divided into solo performances and collaborative work.
Her solo work is based on the dialogical situation, playing with communication in a triangular relationship between man, machine and audience. In doing so, “her performative communication experiments with machines are less aimed at testing technological potential than at tracing back to people themselves” (Verena Kuni). Central elements of her solo performances are chance, the irritation of the perceptual situation as well as techniques of media expansion with regard to one's own physical presence (video dialogue service ), or with regard to virtual existences (video performance Calling Victoria ). In collaboration with the sound artist Georg Klein , she continued the communicative situation as an interactive installation in public space ( pickup 2005 and takeaway 2006), but here with an invisible, disembodied voice that entangles passers-by in an “uncertain event” (Sabine Sanio .)
While she uses video as a communicative-reflexive medium in the performance, in the situation of the concert this medium becomes more or less a visual instrument that functions as a separate “musical” voice as well as a spatial design element. These works are predominantly collaborative works with improvising musicians, composers and performers. The concertante use of visual image techniques occurs both live in a closed-circuit situation and in the form of live-triggered video clips (for example the SCRAP video concert from 2004). Since 2012 she has been developing audiovisual compositions and sound-based performances.
Works
- Service - a videophone call. Solo performance, 1996
- 1x1 - Solo performance with random factors, 2001
- “Yes, it suddenly got warmer”, music theater in co-op. with Christian Kesten , 2003
- Calling Victoria, video performance with speech recognition software, 2003
- Go left - stand right, video concert in co-op. with AM Rodriguez, 2004
- SCRAP, video concert in co-op. with Andrea Neumann and A .M. Rodriguez, 2004
- pick up - interactive installation and performance in co-op. with Georg Klein , 2005
- takeaway - interactive installation in co-op. with Georg Klein , 2006
- le vol - Audiovisual performance in co-op. with Annette Krebs , 2006
- Car Event - solo performance in public space, 2007
- False Friends - Audiovisual composition in co-op. with Antje Vowinckel , 2007
- venture doll - performance and video in co-op. with Georg Klein, 2008
- Moving mountains - a suggestive exercise, 2009
- LapStrap - Solo for voice and mobile audio technology, 2010
- Unfollow. This is me - for 2 performers, objects, speech samples, voices and 6 loudspeakers, 2012
- FLUPSI - text and sound composition for 2 performers, live cam, objects and loudspeakers, in co-op. with Emma Bennett , 2013
- Ortung im Trüben - for 5 performers, sound objects, movable speakers and 3-channel video, 2014
- folie - Composition for 6 voices and objects, 2016 auditory poetry, CONTRACTUAL SOUND
- permeiamo - interactive audio installation with 5 light speakers and a telephone receiver, co-op. with Georg Klein, 2016
- Fountain - composition for 5 + x performers, 10 + y plastic cups and 1 bottle of water, 2017
- Touch Amplifiers - Performance with microphone sandpaper suits, in co-op. with Özgür Erkök Moroder, 2018
- Generation S - audiovisual composition for live voice, objects, interviews, field recordings, microscope camera and video projection, 2018
- Cold glow - audiovisual composition in co-op. with Annette Krebs 2019
Exhibitions / performances since 2003 (selection)
- Ostrava Days 2019 New and Experimental Music Institute and Festival Czech Republic
- Heroines of Sound , Festival Berlin, HAU2, 2018
- Performance Arcade Wellington (NZ), 2018
- 9th performance series Neu-Oerlikon, Zurich,
- Lady Dada Kalam, Kunsthaus KuLe, 2017
- Extended Compositions, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, 2015
- The Voice Observatory, Errant Sound Berlin 2015 [1]
- Correnti Seddutive, Urban Sound Art in Taranto (Southern Italy 2013/14)
- LapStrap , solo for voices and mobile audio technology, performance, performed a. a. at the 2018 art space General Public on May 15, 2012 for the book publication Floating Gaps, at the queer-feminist audio art festival quear on August 31, 2013 in Berlin and on November 16, 2013 as part of the EMIHAL event series - electronic music in the house on Lützowplatz .
- Berlinische Galerie Hören See 2.0 by Klangnetz e. V. (2009)
- TESLA Berlin (2005/2006/2007)
- Drill Hall, JOUBERT Park Project, Johannesburg, South Africa (2007)
- sonambiente - international festival for hearing and seeing Berlin (2006)
- Lem Festival Barcelona (2006)
- Center for Art and Media Technology ZKM Karlsruhe (2006, 2012)
- Festival New Music Rümlingen Switzerland (2005)
- MaerzMusik - Festival for Current Music Berlin (2005)
- Museum of Modern Art MUMOK , Festival Jeunesse, Vienna (2005)
- NGBK Berlin (2004)
- Swiss Institute Rome (2004)
- Cascade capacitor Basel (2003/2005/2007)
- Museum KUBUS Hannover (2003)
- Museum for Communication Berlin (2004)
- Trampoline - Festival for Live Art and Media Art Berlin (2004/2006)
- KKL Lucerne (2006)
- Festival Contrasts Krems (2006)
- Goethe-Institut Buenos Aires (2004)
Individual evidence
- ↑ SINK OR SWIM, site of Sophiensäle Berlin
- ↑ Philip Rhensius: City History: Art Is Life . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 2, 2016, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed January 5, 2019]).
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ vis-a-vis catalog of works by Steffi Weismann . 2008, p. 7.
- ↑ Sonambiente catalog . 2006, p. 84.
- ↑ Steffi Weismann, Özgür Erkök Moroder - Dystopia Festival. Retrieved January 5, 2019 (German).
- ↑ http://www.correnti-seduttive.com/
- ↑ http://www.generalpublic.de/nc/archive/eventsarchive/article/73/floating-gaps.html
- ↑ Program, website of the quear festival ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.hal-berlin.de/veranstaltung/corvo-records/
- ↑ http://klangnetz.org/index.php?img=60&pro=5
literature
- KuLe. Art and life. A house in Berlin-Mitte since 1990 . Revolver Publishing Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95763-307-1
- Abecedarium bestiary. Antonia Baehr & Friends . Pp. 105–111, far ° Festival des Arts Nyon, Switzerland Dec. 2013, ISBN 978-2-9700886-1-5
- VIS-A-VIS. Intermedia Performances / Audiovisual Works. Artist monograph Steffi Weismann, incl. DVD. Nuremberg 2009. ISBN 978-3-941185-16-6
- Le Journal des Laboratoires Aubertvillier. RIRE Antonia Baehr, scores pp. 104–109 ISSN 1762-5270
- sonambiente 2006. Catalog for the international sound art festival in Berlin. Heidelberg 2006. (German / English) ISBN 978-3-936636-93-2
- "Itself is art" - art mediation under its own direction. Cascade capacitor Basel 2004. ISBN 978-3-906086-68-2
- across the border. Performance days Hanover 2003.
- USE_Medienkunst @ HdK. + Video. Berlin 1995. (German)
Web links
- Artist's website
- Website Kunsthaus KuLe
- Production group DISTRICT HEATING
- Ensemble for vocal performance DIE MAULWERKER
- SONAMBIENTE sound art festival 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weismann, Steffi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss artist in the field of video art, sound art and performance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |