K21 Encounters: On a different note

In the organizer's words:

On February 26, Olga Hohmann's texts meet the live sounds of Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow. The starting point is the Ständehaus, built as a Prussian provincial parliament and converted into a museum of contemporary art by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, under whose dome the performance will take place. It revolves around voice and resonance in their multiple meanings as musical and political concepts. Otherwise unheard sounds - whispering, murmuring, clanking, the quiet, familiar tones from the next room - are amplified, the story of Florence Foster Jenkins, who became known as the worst singer in the world, is taken up and dilettantism is tested as a strategy for emancipation.

Olga Hohmann studied theater directing and fine arts. She writes interdisciplinary essays, prose miniatures and meandering texts intended to be read aloud between the visual arts, theater and literature. In an almost musical form, she combines more or less fictional narratives with found material, which combine to form a rhythmic murmur.

Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow studied archaeology, applied theater studies and sound and reality. She works interdisciplinary in the fields of radio play, sound art, performance, dance and theater in German-speaking and international areas. Beeskow leads workshops on sound design and writes for the fanzine grapefruits. She lives in Düsseldorf.

Afterwards, you are cordially invited to join in the conversation over a drink in the presence of the artists.

The event will be held in German and English.