Research and Waves

03/10/2021

friends in Vienna our colleague is playing tonight in the great at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Lehárgasse 8/Tor 1, 1060 Vienna, Multipurpose Hall. Norman will play and play with the the Research and Waves toolbox, all the records we published.
The concert starts at 7 pm the admission is free.
Full line-up: Studierende der Bruckner Universität Linz, Dieter Kaufmann, Angela Lau and Research and Waves

28/09/2021

look look look who's joining us in just a couple of days yaaay Juliana Lindenhofer will preparer her sculptures and a DJ set (starting at 19:00 shortly after 's workshop with pavement stones)
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We will be joining Juliana’s protagonists - her sculptures - at Changing Room for a DJ set. The grounds on which Juliana puts together her fluid sculptures, often made out of fabrics and metal casts and color, are thoughts on new anatomies, gender hacking and body deformations - strongly influenced by club aesthetics. The way she is sculpting influences her DJ practice and vice versa. Juliana collaborates with the excesses of nightlife, that she feeds with q***r Punk mixes with Voguing samples, apocalyptic computer-game Ambient, cyborgish R’n’B, Techno when she DJs.

Juliana Lindenhofer studies performative arts and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Prof. Monica Bonvicini and Prof. Iman Issa. From 2016-2017 she co-founded and co-curated the club series Clinic in Vienna.

30/04/2021

we will go live on mixcloud now with the first instance of our 2021 event series → i can't hear you: 1. come equal

due to current covid19 restrictions we are broadcasting only from Changing Room in berlin today. so tune in, join the chat, and/or fill in anna's questionaire and tell her what you would like to tell your employer. (link in comments)

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28/04/2021

i can't hear you
1. come equal 30 April 12:00- 20:00
→ Streaming on Mixcloud
(link in bio)
with
Ralf Wendt: "Rolling Roles and Rules" - Questioning “hierarchy-free” communication

This is a performative lecture and a group laboratory situation
between 12:00-13:30
and 16:00-17:30

In the form of a gathering we aim to observe the complexity of a very usual experience - to speak with each other.
We could take the luxury to look from several perspectives: the “nonverbal” expressions, suprasegmentalia, gesture languages, mixed languages, secret languages of resistance, animal conversations, violent speaking, controlled ways of listening and psychoacoustic recognition, fading, muting, mourning and screaming.

Ralf Wendt works within time-based and literary arts on the deconstruction of human and animal language, questioning orders of things. Since the mid-90s he has thematised in performances, films and radio art, a poetics of the suprasegmentalia, often with the Wolf In The Winter Performance-Collective. The connection of performance art with the medium of radio led Wendt out of the galleries and festivals into free radio. As a curator of art, music or radio art festivals such as FreiWild festival (1996-2000), Art for Animals (2011), Radio Revolten (2006, 2016) and “Anybody out there?” at D21 Gallery (2020), Wendt brings together different forms of artistic expression interested in utopic/dystopic societal disturbances. He shares his experiences as an educator in several universities, art schools and media education centers. In 2020 he was awarded by the 11. Berliner Hörspielfestivals, created Radio Mischpoke as a 3 days mobile radio action from Hyderabad Literary Festival in India, authored various radio works for Werkleitz festival in Halle, RadioLab Seanaps Festival in Leipzig, Common Waves in Tbilisi and Spam in Kinshasa.

27/04/2021

We don't meet but you can still book an interview with Anna to say freely
“What would you tell your employer if you could speak freely?”
💾book your interview at [email protected]

"What would you tell your employer if you didn’t have to censor yourself?

Work.
We see/hear things in there.
We experience treatment.
Far too often sh*tty, unjust, bad, unclear, unrespectful treatment.
Sometimes we can’t sleep or eat, or function.
Sometimes we talk about it with co-workers, family, or friends. But at work, we keep quiet. Because we know, we could be "punished" for honesty. We could be fired. But we can not afford to be fired. So we keep silent.
This risk of losing a job, or turning the environment of work into unbearable, because of possible mobbing – this risk makes us speechless. Make us afraid, and therefore quiet. Systemically produced fear of employees allows our employers to avoid confrontation with the consequences of their actions and negligence.
Is it about salary? Paycheck? Working hours? Atmosphere? Racism? Papers? Threats? Hierarchy? Sexism? Conditions of work? Expectations? Respect? Skills? Promotion? Co-workers? Or?

Tell me. Uncensored. I will hear you.
Anonymously, or not. As you prefer.
In whatever language you want.* Whatever job you have, or had.
If you want me to bring your words to your ex-employer, or current one, I will do it.
If you agree, I will record your words and play it loud in “Changing Room” afterwards, so it could be heard in public. If you don’t agree, it will stay between us. *We can speak German, English, and Polish. However, if you prefer another language we can arrange translations."

Anna Zawadzka works as a sociologist and as a gardener’s assistant. Her current sociological interests and research are shaped vastly by the experience of work in Germany and of east-European migration to “the West”. Currently she is working on research called “Proletariat, not precariat” – about invisibility of physical labour in contemporary societies and political discourses (including the Left). She is a co-editor of an academic journal “Studia Litteraria et Historica" a website www.homosovieticus.com

22/04/2021

you know how we were almost only online before it became 'the workplace' for many?
🪵we have an announcement to make🪵
we found the sentence that recurred the most and turned it into an event series 🪵

The simple phrase 'i can’t hear you' has become a symptom of the present. Being a substantial part of every video call, it opens up a field of conflicts between varying ideas of work, social distance, hearing and sounding.
🪱i can’t hear you 🪱
between April and October 2021 in Changing Room
Lüderitzstraße 11

The event series i can’t hear you is a proposal to dissect words within the lexical field of work focussing on the notion of performance. In the process, we want to deeper understand how people do and could communicate, collaborate and relate to each other throughout the various structures, spaces, affects and meanings associated with ideas of work.

with:
Ralf Wendt
Anna Zawadzka
Femme Fitness
Raluca Croitoru, Handverlesen with Lea Schneider and Kassandra Wedel
Juliana Lindenhofer
Brat Nathanson and more.

The project proposes the re-evaluation and poetization of the toxified terminology of performance that the different parameters of modernity and postmodernity imposed as norms for current conditions of labour and means of (cultural) production.

Performing within given notions of productivity, growth, capacity, or integration eventually makes it hard for individuals to equally participate in society. We ask ourselves: How can we give new meaning to these terms in a playful, unique and personal way?

Keywords such as: work-out, work out, a piece of work, work as job, artwork, workflow, work-life-balance, paid work, unpaid work, temp work, etc. invite to be discussed, dissected and poeticized through the means of performance and performativity.

In this project we would like to provoke the debunking of statements around what it means to “hear” each other, statements that are usually deemed obvious. Can and do we really hear each other? Do we want to hear each other?

Event series supported by Stiftung Kunstfonds
More in links in bio 🐙

and if you reached down here: have you seen the ear in hear?

21/04/2021

In case you binge of stories on the 24th of this month, next Saturday, we'll let you peek at our ONE DAY STUDIO with Felix and Stephan. That's how we go public. And later we'll publish the FOLDER on ATTUNE.

In this meeting we will be discussing a work in progress by Felix and Stephan entitled ”Treibgut” which started with a trip in August 2019 then for 10 day they designed and constructed a floating platform out of found material of construction sites of the Bremer Übersee-Stadt. Afterwards they transported the floating platform to Kassel and started a journey of drifting about 500km on the river Weser to Bremerhaven at the North Sea. As a result of our meeting, we will be creating this multi-media folder consisting of images from their floating experience, documented discussions revolving on the ideas of the studio, sharing and friendship that the two artists will develop and reveal. 

📁 one day studio
24 April
8 am - 8 pm

Felix Dreesen is a "Bremer Jung' ", which more means he likes to think place-bounded and operates with a site-specific self-efficacy. He is experienced in cooperatives works, especially larger groups around 20 people. He is a father of a 9 year old son.

Stephan Thierbach was born and raised in Berlin-Pankow. His atelier/studio starts when he leaves the house. He encounters world often through lenses and from there he develops participatory experiential spaces.

19/04/2021

Hola! We are back in the game and have a lot of news to share with you :)

In this occasion with would like to share our first meeting of:

ONE DAY STUDIO 
April to December one day studio in various places in Bremen - Germany.

This is a project we are developing by meeting artists to ask questions, think together on what types of resources we need as artists nowadays. The final result of the meeting is meant to be multi-media FOLDER. From April to December we’ll be arranging 4 meetings of 12 hours with two artists per meeting in various places in Bremen.

This project started for us from observing ourselves. We are making art from our bedrooms, on our phones, often unpaid and invisible to get to show the works of art in frameworks and institutions that give us opportunities, but also limit us. Some of us have studios and some others go back and forth to various spaces, looking for the definition of what a studio is and as well redefining our practice with different conditions we can work with.  In the form of 12 hour long meetings, the group will be assisting two artists per session to set up a temporary studio and expose their thinking, playing, or just resting creative process. The aim of these meetings is to ask ourselves different questions related to producing art. Another important point to such a meeting is what we can learn from each other as artists without the structures that institutions are providing for us.

Kindly supported by Senator für Kultur der Freien Hansestadt Bremen.

📁 First one day studio:
24 April
8 am - 8 pm
First event with
Stephan Thierbach and Felix Dreesen
Meeting published on insta stories

Stay tune, more info soon.

30/09/2020

We are muscling through today 🧰 to release Attune tomorrow, a website-platform whose mainly questioning (img 4/4) 'Can words be neutral?'. Tomorrow we meet in to release ɅV – A Sound Writing Tool, a record made by Andreas Bülhoff & Marc Matter with monosyllabic words only. We invited different thinkers to reflect on the record and respond to it in various mediums. What we've received back is to be experienced tomorrow and afterwards online 4 all.
Attune with works from
(img 1/4) Amina Abbas-Nazari🔧Acoustic Ecology of an AI System,
Jorge Vega🔩 [ASDR] Autonomous Sensory Dissociative Response
(img 3/4) Claudia Salamanca ⚙️WHO ARE THE P̶E̶O̶P̶L̶E̶ OF A̶M̶E̶R̶I̶C̶A̶, (img 2/4) Kazehito Seki 🔨digital graphic scores
and Branka Čolić and Paul Michael von Ganski as part of S*X ⚒Wort und Stimme.
check out press release for more detailed detailed spoilers

29/09/2020

🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵
a few days back sipping loudly tea universe in the welcoming studio of Paul Michael von Ganski during our research and waves team 're/deconstruction'.
Michael Rieken as Paul von Michael togerher with Branka Čolić as part of S*X, responded for Attune platform to the new release ɅV – A Sound Writing Tool by
Andreas Bülhoff and Marc Matter.
Branka and Paul von Michael created a tool that allows them to deconstruct the historical recordings of Wort und Stimme (series of records released by Telefunken in the 50s and 60s which presented contemporary poets speaking their own works) into single words and phrases. Additionally, they are trying to manipulate the sound of the voices using techniques such as time-stretching, delays and filters.

We meet on Thursday in Changing room to listen and watch their pre-produced contribution and as well the ones from Amina Abbas-Nazari, Jorge Vega, Claudia Salamanca, Kazehito Seki works for our new platform Attune.
Click in bios, come by.