Siegmar Zacharias: WAVES - LISTENING SESSIONS TOWARDS SOCIAL BODIES – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Siegmar Zacharias:
WAVES - LISTENING SESSIONS TOWARDS SOCIAL BODIES
WAVES - LISTENING SESSIONS TOWARDS SOCIAL BODIES
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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.
Next date: June 23, 2021
CREATED BY AND FEATURING Neha Chriss, Samuel Hertz, Steve Heather, Siegmar Zacharias VOICING, COMPOSITION Siegmar Zacharias SOUNDDESIGN, COMPOSITION Steve Heather
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
WAVES #1 takes place in cooperation with h a p t i c a f f i n i n t i e s – a study group on touch, haptic aesthetics, and intimacy in the arts. h a p t i c a f f i n i t i e s is initiated by Sofie Luckhardt, Anneliese Ostertag, Belle Santos, and Rahel Spöhrer. You can find more information here.
SIEGMAR ZACHARIAS is a queerfeminist transdisciplinary artist, activist, researcher, end-of-life caregiver, and healing practitioner. She explores collective practices of transformation as training for unknown futures in art, radical pedagogy, and social justice. Siegmar collaborates with uncontrollable materials. During the pandemic, the online listening session series WAVES - listening towards social bodies. was created as a collective mourning work and enabling touch.
LEA KIEFFER is a dance artist and costume/dress maker. Her work explores the dialogue between imagination and physicality through dance, bodywork and craft in hybrid and transdisciplinary formats.
LIZA WITTE is a perfumer and alchemist based in Amsterdam. Her product collection is based on her unique handcrafted fragrances and high-quality ingredients. All of her products are carefully handcrafted in small batches in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
STEVE HEATHER is a Melbourne-born multi-instrumentalist (drums, percussion, electronics) and composer from Berlin, Germany. His music treats sound as matter in relation to other matter, such as the human body. Steve collaborated with Siegmar on the project WAVES – listening towards social bodies, among others.