WIELS iteration. Photo by Tine DECLERCK
Workers in Song by James Richards and Billy Bultheel
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Performances on June 7-9
Join us for PERFECTLY REASONABLE DEVIATIONS - a film program with a live performance by Alexey Kokhanov in the lower gallery as part of the opening of James Richards' exhibition Our Friends in the Audience. Full program below.
Organised by the curatorial collective anorak and James Richards. Our Friends in the Audience continues: 12.04.24–04.08.24.
Program:
Films:
Tolia Astakhishvili, Which Bitch is a Witch?, 2000, 2:44 min.
Tolia Astakhishvili & James Richards, I Remember (Depth of Flattened Cruelty), 2023, 10 min.
Marguerite Duras, Les Mains Négatives, 1979, 14 min.
Performance: Alexey Kokhanov, Oslo solo: Mariupol, 2024, ca 15 min.
Films continue:
Jordan Strafer, SOS, 2021, 11 min.
Mary Helena Clark, Orpheus (outtakes), 2012, 6 min.
Total running time approximately 70 min.
https://kunstnerneshus.no/en/program/events/perfectly-reasonable-deviations
by Tina DECLERCK
Workers in Song by Billy Bultheel and James Richards
Immersive audiovisual installation and performance takes visitors on a journey through a whirlwind of original material and citations, spanning the pleasures of online hookups, underground films and subcultures of bygone eras, as well as the darker dimensions of romantic subjectivity. At Mudam, Bultheel and Richards present a choreographed performance with live music and film on 28 March 2024, alongside an installation that probes the tension between liveness, sentimentality and desire in the absence of the living body.
https://www.mudam.com/exhibitions/workers-in-song
Artistic experimentation at school with music, theatre and fine arts
https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/maerzmusik/programm/2024/kalender/querklang-und-querklang-plus
Carte Blanche In Dark Times
Event in Facebook
Natalia Pschenitschnikova (voice, performance)
Lorena Izquierdo (voice action)
Alina Anufrienko (cello)
Alexey Kokhanov (vocals)
Doors, 18:30, Concert starts 19:00
Tickets donation: 8-10 Euro at the entrance
How to get there: directions
U. Wassermann »Camouflage« (UA)
S. Ercklentz »Fremd_körper«
E. Grosskopf »Prozess der Veränderung op. 12« (UA Version 2023)
R. Hoyer »Schreistück«
S. Weismann »platophonics«
S. Roigk »worte wie schall & raum« (UA)
The result of a collaboration between visual artist James Richards and composer Billy Bultheel, Workers in Song brings together new music, archival film and text. The performance is haunted by histories of occult photography and spectral music, as well as more quotidian pleasures such as internet hook ups, drugs, fanship and Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise”.
Directed by James Richards and Billy Bultheel, and performed by Alexey Kokhanov (voice) and Adam Sinclaire (flute), with filmed appearances by Sebastian de la Cour (voice) and Sara Neidorf (drums).
Co-commissioned by WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
The result of a collaboration between visual artist James Richards and composer Billy Bultheel, Workers in Song brings together new music, archival film and text. The performance is haunted by histories of occult photography and spectral music, as well as more quotidian pleasures such as internet hook ups, drugs, fanship and Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise”.
Directed by James Richards and Billy Bultheel, and performed by Alexey Kokhanov (voice) and Adam Sinclaire (flute), with filmed appearances by Sebastian de la Cour (voice) and Sara Neidorf (drums).
Co-commissioned by WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
Finissage of the Exhibition "Seven deadly sins"
Zilberman Gallery Berlin
Goethestraße 82, 10623 Berlin
"Voice Actions”
In vocal performance Voice Actions vocalists integrate voice to objects (gloves, glasses) regarding the matter of sound as a result of these actions.
Berlin Impro Group:
Lorena Izquierdo,
Gabriel Pedrosa
Alexey Kokhanov
"Voice Actions”
FESTIVAL ¡ESCUCHA! OTOÑO ’22: LORENA IZQUIERDO
Cruce Contemporaneo Madrid
In vocal performance Voice Actions vocalists integrate voice to objects (gloves, glasses) regarding the matter of sound as a result of these actions.
Berlin Impro Group:
Lorena Izquierdo,
Gabriel Pedrosa
Alexey Kokhanov
Improvised & Experimental No. 131 (sound installation)
BIG (Berlin Impro Group)
-Set 1- Lorena Izquierdo Aparicio (voice), Alexey Kokhanov (voice), Gabriel Pedrosa (voice)
-Set 2- Gosia Zagajewska (voice), Wojtek Kurek (percussion), Antonina Nowacka (voice)
Mauro Hertig “Mum Hum” für vier Ausführende verbunden durch Schnurtelefon.
Wittener Tage für Neue Musik
FR 17:30 - 19:15
SA 13:30 - 15:30
SU 13:30 - 15:30
Apr 28 at 20:00
Apr 29 at 20:00
Apr 30 at 20:00
OCTAVIA. TREPANATION, AN OPERA DIRECTED BY BORIS YUKHANANOV AND COMPOSED BY DMITRI KOURLIANDSKI
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/weltpremiere-von-octavia-trepanation-in-amsterdam-lenins.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=388889
Octavia. Trepanation, an opera directed by Boris Yukhananov and composed by Dmitri Kourliandski, marked the first time that the Holland Festival had mounted a co-production with a Russian theatre. The premiere took place as part of the main program of the 70th anniversary running of the Holland Festival in June 2017 on the stage of Muziekgebouw, Europe’s largest platform for the performance of contemporary music. Octavia. Trepanation is a musical reflection on the theme of violence and tyranny. The libretto is based on a 1924 essay by Leon Trotsky about Lenin and fragments of a play attributed to Seneca about the Roman emperor Nero.
“I can safely say that mounting the world premiere of Octavia. Trepanation was one of the greatest adventures the Holland Festival embarked upon in recent years – in collaboration with Stanislavsky Electrotheatre. Thanks to the visionary work of director Boris Yukhananov, the brilliant score by Dmitri Kourliandski, a fabulous ensemble of performers (including an immense choir of terracotta soldiers sourced locally) and super dedicated teams at both partner institutions, it became an unforgettable theatrical, musical and philosophical enquiry into the mechanisms of tyranny. At the same time, Octavia beautifully demonstrates that there are no limits to the artistic imagination, and that festivals and theaters are here to turn those dreams into realities.“ Jochem Valkenburg, programming director music & music theatre, Holland Festival
Der Friedhof der St. Jacobi Gemeinde dient Neukölln als Parkanlage. Seit langem finden hier keine Beerdigungen mehr statt. Pschenitschnikova und Kokhanov, unterwegs beide in der experimentellen Musikszene Moskaus und Berlins, nehmen St. Jacobi zum Aufhänger dieses ersten Teils einer Performance-Reihe, die sich mit Gedächtnis und Erinnern befasst.
Eine Rolle spielt dieser Friedhof bei Theodor Fontane. Begraben liegt hier auch Bruno Bauer, erst Mentor, später erbitterter Gegner von Karl Marx. Und heute noch folgt hier ein letzter Steinmetz dem alten und mühseligen Versuch, Personen und Ereignisse vor Vergessen zu bewahren mithilfe in Stein gehauener Schriftzeichen. Seine Geschichte, die Bauers, dazu die aus Fontanes Roman verirren, verwirren sich in dieser Performance, die als dritten im Bund den Klangkünstler Torsten Ottersberg zum Partner hat.
Mit: Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Komposition, Performance | Alexey Kokhanov, Regie, Performance | Torsten Ottersberg, Installation, Klangregie
Ort: Volksbühne – Sternfoyer
tickets: https://kaho-berlin.de/programm/marxophony/
Theatergasse, 10318 Berlin
Kann man „Das Kapital“ von Karl Marx singen und wenn ja, wie hört sich das an? In seinem waghalsigen Projekt „Marxophony“ nähert sich Alexey Kokhanov musikalisch dem Buch, das alle kennen, aber die wenigsten gelesen haben. Mithilfe seiner Stimme, elektronischen Effekten und einem Augenzwinkern befreit er „Das Kapital“ von dem Mythos, der sich vor allem in seiner Heimat Russland rund um das Werk entwickelt hat. Enttäuschung und Misstrauen gegenüber dem Marxismus verarbeitet Alexey Kokhanov in seiner Performance genauso wie persönliche Ernüchterung in der Erinnerung an die Ideologie der Sowjetunion. Dabei entsteht eine überraschende neue Kunstgattung irgendwo zwischen zeitgenössischem Liederabend, Musiktheater und experimenteller Lesung, für die er von Adam Asnan begleitet wird.
September 24 + 25, 2021, 19h
Kiezkapelle at Neuer St. Jacobi Friedhof Hermannstraße 102, 12051 Berlin-Neukölln
Can fiction immortalize real places? A music performance with embedded sound installation questions the aesthetics of confusion on a graveyard steeped in history. Textual references to Bruno Bauer, Karl Marx and Theodor Fontane intertwine with the voice of the last stonemason from a Neukölln landmark. An audio-performative experiment in a unique urban resting place. Prelude to a musical series about memory and remembrance.
with Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Alexey Kokhanov, Torsten Ottersberg
Tickets: irrungen.wirrungen2021@gmail.com
September 24 + 25, 2021, 19h
Kiezkapelle at Neuer St. Jacobi Friedhof Hermannstraße 102, 12051 Berlin-Neukölln
Can fiction immortalize real places? A music performance with embedded sound installation questions the aesthetics of confusion on a graveyard steeped in history. Textual references to Bruno Bauer, Karl Marx and Theodor Fontane intertwine with the voice of the last stonemason from a Neukölln landmark. An audio-performative experiment in a unique urban resting place. Prelude to a musical series about memory and remembrance.
with Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Alexey Kokhanov, Torsten Ottersberg
Tickets: irrungen.wirrungen2021@gmail.com
Concert at P.A.N.D.A. Plattform
https://panda-platforma.berlin/events/alexey-kokhanov-moscow-berlin-electropanda-2/
“Iron Flamingos. Empathy of banal” is a music performance with covers of popular songs from USSR. Alla Pugacheva, Maya Kristallinskaya, Tatyana Doronina and other Queer-Ikons that could be described as figures of soviet camp culture. (As a reference - “Notes on camp” by Susan Sontag)
Experimental trio Loxodroma by Alina Anufrienko (cello), Alexey Kokhanov (voice) and Pyotr Ototsky (drums).
The group plays sessions of improvisations in the style of automatic writing, masterfully maneuvering in a maze of numerous styles and techniques. The peculiarity of Loxodroma's performances is unconvenience and spontaneity. In the Music For Dances sessions the audience can freely move around the space during the sessions, exploring the peculiarities of the perception of sounds at different points in space.
The musicians are united by a love for collective improvisation and wish of music collaboration. Each of them has its own background and entry point: Alina is a composer and improviser, Aleksey uses the techniques of modern academic vocal in free improvisation, and Peter follows the traditions of jazz improvisation and preaches the Dionysian unconscious.
(The word loxodrome comes from Ancient Greek "oblique" + "running". Loxodrome is an arc crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle. All loxodromes spiral from one pole to the other.)
(c) Andey Bezukladnikov
Apr 28 at 20:00
Apr 29 at 20:00
Apr 30 at 20:00
RUSSIAN PREMIERE OF OCTAVIA. TREPANATION, AN OPERA DIRECTED BY BORIS YUКHANANOV AND COMPOSED BY DMITRI KOURLIANDSKI
The performance will be shown as an entry in the International Festival-School of Contemporary Art TERRITORY
Octavia. Trepanation, an opera directed by Boris Yukhananov and composed by Dmitri Kourliandski, marked the first time that the Holland Festival had mounted a co-production with a Russian theatre. The premiere took place as part of the main program of the 70th anniversary running of the Holland Festival in June 2017 on the stage of Muziekgebouw, Europe’s largest platform for the performance of contemporary music. Octavia. Trepanation is a musical reflection on the theme of violence and tyranny. The libretto is based on a 1924 essay by Leon Trotsky about Lenin and fragments of a play attributed to Seneca about the Roman emperor Nero.
http://electrotheatre.com/repertoire/spectacle.htm?id=442
Composer Kirill Shirokov
Libretto Nana Grinshtein
Stage Anastasia Patlay
Feb 1 at 20:00
Feb 2 at 20:00
Octavia. Trepanation is a musical reflection on the theme of violence and tyranny. The libretto is based on a 1924 essay by Leon Trotsky about Lenin and fragments of a play attributed to Seneca about the Roman emperor Nero.
http://electrotheatre.com/repertoire/spectacle.htm?id=442
17 October, Thursday
20:00
18 October, Friday
20:00
19 October, Saturday
20:00
RUSSIAN PREMIERE OF OCTAVIA. TREPANATION, AN OPERA DIRECTED BY BORIS YUКHANANOV AND COMPOSED BY DMITRI KOURLIANDSKI
The performance will be shown as an entry in the International Festival-School of Contemporary Art TERRITORY
Octavia. Trepanation, an opera directed by Boris Yukhananov and composed by Dmitri Kourliandski, marked the first time that the Holland Festival had mounted a co-production with a Russian theatre. The premiere took place as part of the main program of the 70th anniversary running of the Holland Festival in June 2017 on the stage of Muziekgebouw, Europe’s largest platform for the performance of contemporary music. Octavia. Trepanation is a musical reflection on the theme of violence and tyranny. The libretto is based on a 1924 essay by Leon Trotsky about Lenin and fragments of a play attributed to Seneca about the Roman emperor Nero.
http://electrotheatre.com/repertoire/spectacle.htm?id=442
Date and time:
Sep 24, all day
https://expandingspace.ru/solo/
Sep 3 at 15.00/15.30
Sep 5 at 14.30/15.00
Sep 6 at 15.00/15.30
Sep 9 at 15.30/15.30
Sep 11 at 14.00/14.30
Sep 14 at 14.00/ 14.30
Dates and time:
https://expandingspace.ru/solo/
Aug 22 at 14.30/15.00
Aug 28 at 15.15/15.45
Aug 29 at 15.00/15.30
