Siegmar Zacharias & Steve Heather – Sophiensæle | Freies Theater in Berlin

Siegmar Zacharias (RO/D) works with different formats that deal with the juxtaposition and opposition of theory and material. These oscillate aesthetically between labor and humor, do-it-yourself low- and high-tech. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in theaters and festivals, in galleries and conferences, in greenhouses, in the forest and in the sky. Zacharias is a member of the collective SXS Enterprise and co-founder of the artistic exchange and research platform WOW - WE WORK HERE. In addition to her art, she is also a lecturer. She works with people and uncontrollable material such as smoke, mucus and the nervous system. For example, SLIME DYNAMICS and Drooling Lecture were created. With the idea of doing artistic research in public, she developed 24-hour immersive curatorial projects under the title Training for political imagination since 2017, where researchers*, artists*, activists* were invited to share their work with the audience. Events emerged such as: The Other Thing (MDT Stockholm 2017), Intimacy with Death (Agora Berlin 2018), Posthuman Solidarities (FFT Düsseldorf 2019), ANIMAterialities - The Future of Grief (FFT Düsseldorf 2020).

STEVE HEATHER (AU-DE) is a Berlin-based musician (drums, percussion, electronics), composer, performance and installation artist. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Steve studied percussion/improvisation at Victoria College of the Arts and performance art at Das Arts, Amsterdam. Steve is interested in the repetitive acoustic territories of daily life that inform individual and community sonic agency.  His research revolves around the physicality of sonic boundaries and how it informs compositional methods, materials and structures along with the physical readings of listeners*. His music is a collision of arresting simplicity and fleeting complexity, full of noise and spatialization, sudden connections and resonances. Steve Heather's current musical projects/bands cross genre definitions and settle equally in different territories: Avant-garde, Free Jazz, Noise, Drone Rock: THE STILL, BOOKLET, ** Y **, SHELTER. He is co-founder and co-organizer of THE SPLITTER ORCHESTRA, a 25-piece improvisational orchestra.