Siegmar Zacharias & Steve Heather:
WAVES #3 - LISTENING SESSIONS TOWARDS SOCIAL BODIES
WAVES #3 - LISTENING SESSIONS TOWARDS SOCIAL BODIES
The listening sessions take place on zoom and are open for everybody. They consist of an introduction, the collective listening, and an integrating conversation. Please listen with headphones. To participate, you must download the Zoom software and agree to its privacy policy.
A wave is a disturbance that moves energy from one place to another. Waves travel through matter and space. Light travels through the universe connecting celestial bodies. Sound travels around the planet, through bodies of water and matter. Seismic waves shake up the ground.
Siegmar Zacharias and her team offer WAVES in sensory and affective modes as a series of listening sessions together with FFT Düsseldorf and Sophiensæle Berlin, from May until December 2021. It is a sonic container to experience being shaken and connected together. The listening sessions are sound meditations for wondering together into a space where we do not need to be alone. Building on a feminist practice of nourishment and regeneration we want to sustain transformative quaking while asking: How can we be together otherwise. At the same time let us acknowledge the grief present in this time.
We offer WAVES to practice giving our bodies as resonance spaces for each other to be in the wild spaces of grief, joy, pleasure, of connection through sound. We invite you to plug into the transformative power of collective grieving, collective listening, collective regeneration. Let's gather the energy we need to make a change.
composition Steve Heather concept, voice work, composition, hosting Siegmar Zacharias
A production by Siegmar Zacharias in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE and FFT Düsseldorf. Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR. Aid Programme Dance as well as the Gwaertler Foundation. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung
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.