Δ WELTKULTUREN EVENING SCHOOL The World Through Your Ears: „Shouting". A talk with audio samples by Thomas Desi composer, director, author (AT)

Singing from the thorax (voix de poitrine) has been around since the 1820s, and has its roots in Paris. But what happens when someone shouts, bellows, screams, blares, yells, bleats, chants, and squeals? The chances are they will run against the grain of everyday life, at least in our apparently well-behaved society.

Thomas Desi is a music and theatre director from Vienna. Together with his group, ZOON MUSIKTHEATER, he explores performative ways of representing language and the body. Desi experiments with different formats to create a new music theatre, which contrasts with the production process found in classical opera.
His work is not driven by daily politics but by a broader definition of Man. He thematises human kind’s existence in space and time and the need for social exchange. The Aristotelian term “zoon politicon” or “social animal” defines this stance and music theatre acts as a productive metaphor.
www.zoon.at

Curated by Oliver Augst (Musician and Composer) and Vanessa von Gliszczynski (Ethnomusicologist and Research Curator South East Asia, Weltkulturen Museum).

Media Partners: Journal Frankfurt und hr2 Kultur.

Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37
Entrance €5/ reduced €2.50 incl. refreshments.

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Δ PUBLISHING ORGANS: Uncensored and Incredibly Hot

Bryce Galloway and Dr. Clémentine Deliss discuss underground publishing and art practice in New Zealand.

Bryce Galloway is a leading New Zealand zine producer, mentor of emerging zine authors and a pivotal touchstone within zine and counter culture publishing in New Zealand. He recently curated Typical Girls at the New Zealand Film Archive, and had a solo exhibition of his drawings within the Courtenay Place Light Boxes for six months in Wellington. He coordinates Wellington Zinefest and advises zine makers setting up their own festivals.

Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37
Entrance €3 / reduced €1.50 incl. refreshments.

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Δ NEW ZEALAND TEXT AND CULTURE MARATHON Conversations between Poets and Writers from New Zealand.

3PM: “INVENTING REAL LIVES”

John Sinclair, Elizabeth Knox and Harry Ricketts in conversation with Fergus Barrowman.
What are the responsibilities and the freedoms of the writer in using factual material?

John Sinclair, author of “The Phoenix Song” and graduate of Victoria University's creative writing masters programme. He has worked as a political speechwriter, a Treasury official, roving public policy consultant. In 1995 he lived in Harbin, China, as a Visiting Fellow at the Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences.

Elizabeth Knox, author of more than a dozen books. Her most famous novel “The Vintner’s Luck” was translated into several languages, including German. She has won the Montana Medal 1999, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, and an Arts Laureate Award. She has also written critically acclaimed young adult fantasy novels.

Harry Ricketts,poet, critic, essayist and editor, best known for his internationally published biography of Rudyard Kipling, “The Unforgiving Minute: a Life of Rudyard Kipling”. He was co-editor of 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry, which was shortlisted for the NZ Book Awards. His most recent book of poems is “Your Secret Life”. He is the co-editor of New Zealand’s only review magazine, New Zealand Books, and teaches at Victoria University of Wellington.

Fergus Barrowman has been the Publisher of Victoria University Press, New Zealand's leading publisher of new fiction and poetry, since 1985. In 1988 he founded the literary journal “Sport”, which he still edits and publishes.

 

4.30PM: “NEW IDEARS FRAM THE WELTKULTUREN”

The resident writers Tina Makereti and Hamish Clayton talk about their work and experiences with the collection of the Weltkulturen Museumm with Eva Raabe .

Hamish Claytonwon this year’s Best First Book Award at the NZ Post Book Awards for his debut novel “Wulf”. He wrote the novel while studying for his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington. “Wulf” has been widely acclaimed for its vivid imagining of 19th Century New Zealand history. Novelist Lloyd Jones described the work as ‘mind-blowing’. Hamish is one of two writers selected this year for a writing residency at the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt.

Tina Makereti, writer, whose first book of stories, “Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa”, won the Nga Kupu Ora Fiction Award. The book was also named as one of the Best Books of 2010 by both the NZ Listener and the Sunday Star Times. Tina is currently completing her PhD in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington. She is one of two writers selected this year for a writing residency at the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt.

Eva Raabe,since 1985 curator Oceania, Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt. 1991 she collected and researched in Papua New Guinea and Australia. 1998/99 International Research Fellow at Centre for Cross-Cultural Research the National University in Canberra, Australia, curator of several exhibitions, for example “Reisen und Entdecken. Vom Sepik an den Main.“ and „Face to Face“ in the Weltkulturen Museum.

 

6PM: “BORDERLINES”

Jenny Bornholdt, Anna Jackson and Lawrence Patchett in conversation with Harry Ricketts.

Jenny Bornholdt, poet whose much-loved work includes the landmark collection “The Rocky Shore”, winner of the 2009 Montana Book Award. She was NZ Poet Laureate (2005-8) and also a NZ Arts Foundation Laureate. She has held the Victoria University Writer’s Fellowship and the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship. She co-edited An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English as well as the best-selling “My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems”. 

Anna Jacksonis a vital voice in New Zealand writing, working in poetry, short fiction, criticism and across a variety of mixed-media collaborations. Her latest collection of poems, “Thicket”, is shortlisted in the NZ Book Awards. She was the 2001 Waikato Writer in Residence. She teaches English Literature at Victoria University and she has published critical works on writer’s diaries, on British children’s writing and on contemporary New Zealand fiction.

Laurence Patchettis seen as a future star of New Zealand literature. His debut collection of short stories, “I Got His Blood On Me”, has received rave reviews for its boldly inventive approach to storytelling. One of the stories in this book was the inaugural winner of the national competition, ‘The Long and the Short of It’. This year he completed a PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington.

Harry Rickettsis a highly regarded poet, critic, essayist and editor. He is best known for his internationally published biography of Rudyard Kipling, “The Unforgiving Minute: a Life of Rudyard Kipling”. His latest critical book (“Strange Meetings: Poets of the Great War”) re-imagines the lives of British War Poets. He was also the co-editor of “99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry”, which was shortlisted for the NZ Book Awards. His most recent book of poems is “Your Secret Life”. He is the co-editor of New Zealand’s only review magazine, “New Zealand Books”, and teaches at Victoria University of Wellington.

 

7.30PM: “MAORI AND PACIFIC CULTURE”

Maori and Pacific Culture: Storytelling of Aotearoa and Moana Nui A Kiwa, with Tanea Heke and Joe Harawira.

Joe Harawira(Ngati Maniapoto, Ngai te Rangi, Ngati Awa) is an International storyteller and tikanga (protocols) expert from Aotearoa- New Zealand. He has toured many times both nationally and internationally over the past 30 years, taking his skill in Maori storytelling and oratory with him to indigenous storytelling festivals. He was a teacher for 24 yrs mainly in the total immersion language schools. His stories are well known stories from the Maori world. He is a passionate teacher and performer of kapahaka (traditional Maori perfoming arts) and also features on many contemporary Maori programmes that are viewed by a national audience.  He is an exponent of the Maori language and a strong supporter of all Maori art forms. He also is a bearer of ta moko. Joe lives in his hometown of Whakatane which is in the North Island of New Zealand He currently works as a Strategic Partnerships Manager with the Department of Conservation.

Tanea Hekeis Project director for New Zealand’s programme, guest of honour Frankfurt Book Fair. She organised the Michael Parekowhai exhibition on the art Venice Biennale 2011, was exhibition manager in the Te Papa (National Museum New Zealand) and worked as programme director/ Art director at Taki Rua Productions.

 

With refreshments and culinary delicacies from New Zealand. Entrance €7 / reduced €3,50.

Supported by the Victoria University of Wellington, the New Zealand Government through the Cultural Diplomacy International Fund, and Creative New Zealand.

Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37
With refreshments and culinary delicacies from New Zealand.
Entrance €7 / reduced €3,50.

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Δ WELTKULTUREN EVENING SCHOOL The World Through Your Ears: "Eisler sitting down". Concert with Sven-Åke Johansson, vocals and snare drum (SE) and Oliver Augst (DE), vocals and mini keyboard, Songs by Hanns Eisler.

“Utterly divine! This minimal combo together with Johansson’s skewed vocals. Opulent in the sense of unspent.” (Deutschlandfunk)

“Music duo Augst and Sven-Åke Johansson provide something that borders on cabaret, accompanying one another with the drum or chords, performing Eisler-Brecht songs such as “Lied vom kleinen Wind” (The Song of the Little Wind) with a profound type of humour,”  writes Neues Deutschland

“As an Eisler vocalist, Augst sheds new light on all tenses, rendering them crystal clear: past, present and future. Perhaps it will rain from the bottom up today and more than ever before – maybe we shall disappear – now I want to know more about life! Thank you!” (Alfred 23 Harth)

“30 years ago they used to say that if Elvis Presley sang the telephone directory his fans would buy it; Sven-Åke Johansson does better than that (much better!): he plays a cardboard television packing case and makes it musical!” (Peter Stubley, former Assistant Director for Academic Services, University of Sheffield)

“Musical favourites completely unwired” says Frankfurter Rundschau

Some topics never go away; some are never enough. For Frankfurt-based singer and composer, Oliver Augst, Hans Eisler is an eternal challenge. Again and again, he comes back to this man, above all to his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, and to the songs that were born of this alliance. Citing Brecht, Oliver Augst says: “In Eisler’s case the sense of social responsibility is full of enjoyment to the highest degree. His work moves in all directions. It is exhilarating and transforms the singer as it does the listener.” Eisler ranks among the truly great composers of the 20^th century. Exhilarating and contradictory, you can now experience what Brecht once heard in Frankfurt. Together with Sven-Åke Johansson, a master of Free Improvisation, Oliver Augst presents his take on the songs by Brecht/Eisler. Live and unplugged, without microphones or cables Augst and Johansson sit side by side quite relaxed on the small stage and perform their favourite songs by Hanns Eisler. Each subtly accompanies the other’s vocals. Creating minimalist tones on the marching drum (Johansson) or a children’s keyboard (Augst) – we experience Eisler sitting down. Brecht certainly would have liked it!  

Sven-Åke Johansson (Sweden)
Composer, musician, author and artist.

Together with Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, Manfred Schoof and Alexander von Schlippenbach, Johansson played a crucial role in the development of European Free Jazz and Free Improvisation during the 1960s. He never allowed himself to be prey to traditional genre boundaries. Johansson transforms everyday objects into sound objects, processes them to create assemblages and image objects that transgress the boundaries to visual art, almost imperceptibly. 

For this performance, he will use his old Uher tape recorder and the tapes he recorded with it between 1968 and 1974 to create a spontaneous audio drama.

Oliver Augst (Germany)

Singer, performer, composer

CD, audio drama and stage productions/publications, establishment of several ensembles, international concert performances including collaborations with Marc André (France), Blixa Bargeld (Germany), Raymond Pettibon (USA), Rüdiger Carl (Gemany), Keiji Haino (Japan) and many more.

Curator of the concert series “What is Music?” in Commerzbank’s “raum für kultur” in Frankfurt as well as the “Sommer Musik Städel” concerts in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt. Co-founder and Music Director of the “Utopie Station” a series of events held in Nationaltheater Mannheim. Lecturer at the Offenbach University of Art and Design, at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in the areas of aesthetics, communication and media, and at the Harz University of Applied Sciences in media and information technology.

 

Curated by Oliver Augst (Musician and Composer) and Vanessa von Gliszczynski (Ethnomusicologist and Research Curator South East Asia, Weltkulturen Museum).

Media Partners: Journal Frankfurt und hr2 Kultur.

Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37
Entrance €5/ reduced €2.50 incl. refreshments.

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Δ WELTKULTUREN EVENING SCHOOL The World Through Your Ears: "Eisler sitting down". Workshop with Sven-Åke Johansson (SE) and Oliver Augst (DE),

Some topics never go away; some are never enough. For Frankfurt-based singer and composer, Oliver Augst, Hans Eisler is an eternal challenge. Again and again, he comes back to this man, above all to his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, and to the songs that were born of this alliance. Citing Brecht, Oliver Augst says: “In Eisler’s case the sense of social responsibility is full of enjoyment to the highest degree. His work moves in all directions. It is exhilarating and transforms the singer as it does the listener.” Eisler ranks among the truly great composers of the 20^th century. Exhilarating and contradictory, you can now experience what Brecht once heard in Frankfurt. Together with Sven-Åke Johansson, a master of Free Improvisation, Oliver Augst presents his take on the songs by Brecht/Eisler. Live and unplugged, without microphones or cables Augst and Johansson sit side by side quite relaxed on the small stage and perform their favourite songs by Hanns Eisler. Each subtly accompanies the other’s vocals. Creating minimalist tones on the marching drum (Johansson) or a children’s keyboard (Augst) – we experience Eisler sitting down. Brecht certainly would have liked it!  

Workshop: We don't just wish for music consumers but participants in a communicative situation. The workshop "Eisler sitting down" with the Swedish improvisation musician Sven-Åke Johansson and Oliver Augst will focus on the dialectical method of the composer Hans Eisler: departing from the piece "14 ways to describe the rain", which he produced while exiled in California during the second World War, the participants will develop and perform 14 interpretations of a simple children's song.

“In Eisler’s case the sense of social responsibility is full of enjoyment to the highest degree... It is exhilarating and transforms the singer as it does the listener."(Brecht)

Sven-Åke Johansson (Sweden)
Composer, musician, author and artist.

Together with Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, Manfred Schoof and Alexander von Schlippenbach, Johansson played a crucial role in the development of European Free Jazz and Free Improvisation during the 1960s. He never allowed himself to be prey to traditional genre boundaries. Johansson transforms everyday objects into sound objects, processes them to create assemblages and image objects that transgress the boundaries to visual art, almost imperceptibly. 

For this performance, he will use his old Uher tape recorder and the tapes he recorded with it between 1968 and 1974 to create a spontaneous audio drama.

Oliver Augst

Singer, performer, composer

CD, audio drama and stage productions/publications, establishment of several ensembles, international concert performances including collaborations with Marc André (France), Blixa Bargeld (Germany), Raymond Pettibon (USA), Rüdiger Carl (Gemany), Keiji Haino (Japan) and many more.

Curator of the concert series “What is Music?” in Commerzbank’s “raum für kultur” in Frankfurt as well as the “Sommer Musik Städel” concerts in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt. Co-founder and Music Director of the “Utopie Station” a series of events held in Nationaltheater Mannheim. Lecturer at the Offenbach University of Art and Design, at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in the areas of aesthetics, communication and media, and at the Harz University of Applied Sciences in media and information technology.

 

Curated by Oliver Augst (Musician and Composer) and Vanessa von Gliszczynski (Ethnomusicologist and Research Curator South East Asia, Weltkulturen Museum).

Media Partners: Journal Frankfurt und hr2 Kultur.

Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37
Cost €20/ reduced €15
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