The extended performances will be an experimental musical performance by Roie Bar Lev and Days Like Television, and closing the night an experimental multimedia piece by multidisciplinary artist Julia Witas.
Moderation: Tom Bresemann
Cristian Forte was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a poet and artist. In 2009
arrived in Berlin. In 2010 he founded the independent publishing house
Milena Berlin. In 2014 won first prize at the Festival SoundOut – New
Ways of Presenting Literature for the project KM.0 consisting of several
poetic interventions in the city.
His main interests are experimental
poetry, transmediality-intertextuality, collective creative processes,
theories of sound and the relations between private and public space.
Forte is co-founder of the music and sound-poetry label Carrots Tapes.
On this evening, together with Ginés Olivares, he will present their project »useful application from the measurement of the head«.
Ginés Olivares was born in Santiago de Chile and studied Cinema & Television at the Universidad Arcis. In 2002 he moved to Berlin and worked as an editor for documentary films. He has released »Vertically Challenged«, a work of experimental poetry
edited by A Ñoñi Again Microediciones.
He works with the collective
mmmmmfilms (UK-DE), exploring the dialogue between poetry and visual
narratives. Olivares has collaborated with the poet and artist Cristian Forte on repeated occasions creating visual/sound poetry. For Convergence IV they will present their project »useful application from the measurement of the head«.
Felipe Sáez Riquelme (born 1986 in Chile) is a poet, performance artist and writer. In his
work he approaches literature as performance and explores voice and
listening as forms of writing. He lives in Berlin, where he founded the SIESTA festival and recently the eponymous publishing house for
Spanish-speaking authors living in Germany.
In 2023 he participated in
the contemporary poetry and new music project VOCATIONS, curated and
coordinated by Haus für Poesie. This year the Argentinian publisher Pan
Casa Editorial published his collection of poems »Un año en trece lunas« (»A Year in Thirteen Moons«). He will present a solo literary performance on this evening.
Elina-M. Pantsyr was born and raised in Ukraine before they migrated to Germany with
their family. They work with dance, performance and poetry on topics
such as internal personal change, migration, criticism of power and
culture and how these are connected. They will present a dance performance.
Ana Gagulidze,
a classically trained musician, has been immersed for years in the rich
traditions of classical music, whilst also transcending boundaries of
convention. In
her artistic liberation, she seeks not just to create music, but to
engage in a profound act of unlearning. This process of unlearning is
not a rejection of her classical roots, but rather a conscious effort to
dismantle the very frameworks that have defined her musicianship. It is
through this deconstruction that she aims to rediscover the purity and
rawness of sound.
In her quest, she embraces the unpredictable and the
avant-garde, blending traditional techniques with unconventional
methods. She uses found objects, electronic distortions, and ambient
noises, transforming them into new forms of musical expression. Together with Mire she will show a sound and movement performance.
Mire is the dark-ambient drone and atmospheric soundscape project of Andreea Hriscu,
a multidisciplinary Berlin based artist. She is active as an expressive
painter, photographer, performer and sound artist. Her sound project
Mire has 6 releases on Bandcamp consisting of sound collages,
sound-poetry, dark ambient and drone sounds.
Using mostly self recorded
synths, modified samples and field recordings, Mire is an exploration of
profound, meditative soundscapes that provoke a sense of introspection,
throwing the listener into a darkening solitude, a deep claustrophobic
dimension, submerged in perennial cyclic movements. Together with Ana Gagulidze she will show a sound and movement performance.
Daniel Bryden is an experimental musician and video artist from Newcastle Upon Tyne, currently based in Berlin. He releases music as Days Like Television.
Using an array of dissociated sound sources and fragmented synths,
Bryden’s work delicately balances a viscerally intense heaviness with a
melodic and nostalgic beauty.
His debut album- »This Will Have Been the
Past« was released by Bonambi in June 2024, following a string of live
AV performances across Europe in such venues as ICA (London), La Vallée
(Brussels), ACUD MACHT NEU (Berlin), and VEKKS (Vienna).
Julia Witas is a Berlin based multidisciplinary artist, vocalist and performing
musician. Through photography, film, installation and sound, she
explores topics such as grief, death, nature, symbolism and dream
experiences. With an intuitive and experimental approach, she utilizes
dynamic vocals, field recordings and multi-instrumental, atmospheric
soundscapes to create sonic compositions that fluctuate between
devouring, dark distortion and floating, poetic fragility.
Roie Bar Lev – tba!
The event will be held in english. The event will feature lots of music and will be held in English.