Emeka Ogboh connects to places with his senses of hearing and taste. Through his audio installations and gastronomic works, Ogboh explores how private, public, collective memories and histories are translated, transformed and encoded into sound and food. These works contemplate how auditory and gustatory experiences capture existential relationships, frame our understanding of the world and provide a context in which to ask critical questions on immigration, globalization, and post-colonialism.
Ogboh has participated in numerous international exhibitions including documenta 14, (2017), Athens and Kassel, Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), the 56th edition of La Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2015), and Dakar Biennale (2014).
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Paul Panhuysen (Netherlands), who died in 2015, was one of the pioneers of multimedia sound art. He first studied art at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht from 1954 to 1959. Afterwards, he devoted himself to studying the sociology of art at the University of Utrecht until 1961. In Leeuwarden he worked as director of the School of Applied Arts, curated in The Hague and Eindhoven. Influenced by Situationism, he became one of the leading members of the second generation of the international Fluxus movement. Starting with painting, he expanded his spectrum in the late 1960s by working with media, in urban planning and music, founded artists’ associations and became involved in numerous committees as well as in museum education. He is also one of the protagonists of time-based arts with hundreds of performances and worked with the Maciunas Ensemble. He has also worked intensively with generatively produced music. Together with his wife Hélène, he founded the artist platform “Het Apollohuis” in Eindhoven in 1980, which closed in 2001 and whose archive is looked after by the ZKM.
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Ralf Schreiber plays with electromechanical sound generators: small motors, percussion and spring mechanisms and strings that vibrate themselves. He makes music with these devices, which often follow their own logic.
In the process, the machines and prepared materials are made to sound with the help of the smallest movements and interactions, thus investigating the elementary interactions of sound and material.
Frederic Schröder offers various workshop formats for children and young people: Handicraft workshops with electricity, light and sound, light art workshops, multimedia staging of theatre and musical performances to talking solar-powered dustbins. Among other things, they created their own interpretation of the theremin, which is influenced by hand movement and light and thus opens up new creative possibilities. At the same time, it is so impressively simple that it can be set up with children.
With his company Light Art & Sound, he rents out event and media technology. For action artists:indoors, churches and exhibition spaces, he develops individual electronics, media technology and lighting concepts with special attention to precisely fitting function, professional implementation and simple operation.
Frederic Schröder is regularly on the road with his light art exhibitions and delights audiences with a mixture of creatively staged everyday objects, participatory actions and modern light and sound artworks.
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The percussion ensemble SPLASH – Perkussion NRW offers young talented percussionists the opportunity to develop a programme between New Music, Improvised Music and World Music and to perform it under professional conditions.
SPLASH has performed at the Philharmonie Essen, the Kölner Philharmonie, at the “Ensemblia” in Mönchengladbach and at the Kölner Musiknacht. In the Cologne concert series “Schlüsselwerke”, the young people performed Varèse’s “Ionisation” and Reich’s “Six Marimbas”, among others. The young artists entered the field of symphonic music at the beginning of 2009 in cooperation with the State Youth Orchestra and the Robert Schumann University with performances of “Le Transfiguration de notre Seigneur Jesus Christ” by Olivier Messiaen.
SPLASH – Perkussion NRW is funded by the Ministry of Art and Science of the State of NRW and, on a project-by-project basis, by other cooperation partners. The artistic direction is in the hands of Ralf Holtschneider and Stephan Froleyks.
Floris Vanhoof ( born 1982), is interested in the hybrid forms of music, visual art and film. His first projections – experimental films on 16 millimetres – developed into purely visual experiences that question our viewing habits.
Inspired by structural film and early electronic music, he builds installations, creates extended cinema performances and releases his music. He builds his own instruments to explore the boundaries between image, light and sound. Vanhoof lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
+ www.florisvanhoof.com
Over four decades, Peter Vogel, one of the pioneers of sound art, designed electronic sound sculptures and stage performances that encourage the viewer to discover different patterns through repeated interaction. Using various electronic components such as generators, transistors, switches, amplifiers, loudspeakers and photocells, Peter Vogel manages to combine the randomness of observer-dependent reactions with certain determinate systems to create a complex responsive network of structures and patterns.
Achim Vogel Muranyi is a German contemporary artist and composer.
His work includes comic illustrations and series of paintings. His focus is on electronic control mechanisms, interactivity and computer-controlled visual as well as musical events. Exhibitions, happenings & performances at E-Werk Freiburg, Galerie K Staufen, among others,
Art Karlsruhe, Espace Lézard Colmar, Gallery TOM Tokyo, Galerie Lara Vincy Paris, Espace Monte-Cristo Paris, Positions Art Fair Berlin, Kunstverein Mannheim.
+ www.petervogel-heritage.de
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anni YU (she/her) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and singer living in Cologne and musically moves between neo-soul and melodic techno.
Under the motto Love is Love, anni YU uses her music as a platform to give queer people space, to become visible and to create exchange.
+ www.soundcloud.com/anni-yu
