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Monthly archives of “April 2018

error Anssi Taulu

Error | 28.4.–19.05.2018

Anssi Taulu, Finland (sculptures),
Francois Knoetze, South Africa  (Video)

Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag 27.04.2018, 7pm |

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition open: 28.04.–29.05.2018 |
Öffnungszeiten/ Opening hours: Wed-Sa 3-7pm |

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


 Error

Do we see the consequences of our actions? Do we care?

Are we living in a dream industry, where nothing really happenes. Life just slides out between commercial breaks.

This reality is a growing tornado of mistakes, our collective blind spot.

Today’s phenomena are reflections from yesterday’s choices and decisions. And the traces go back over centuries. The history of a man is a jumble of courage, cowardice, wisdom, foolishness, mistakes, damages, mistakes, misunderstandings and recklessness.

Anssi Taulu works predominantly in the medium of sculptures, but includes environmental art projects, graphics, drawings, videos and collaborative projects with other artists in his large scale installations. Taulu graduated from Kankaanpää Art School in 1994. His major solo shows have been at Galleria Sculptor in Helsinki, GalleriaKONE in Hämeenlinna and Galerie Toolbox in Berlin, Germany. His environmental art project Wasp Factories were built in numerous places in Finland, Edinburgh and London. His works have been exhibited in Germany, Sweden, Scotland, Norway and Estonia. Taulu have public works in Finland and in Utica NY. He is a member of the Association of Finnish Sculptors and Toolbox cooperative. He lives and works in Hämeenlinna, Finland.


Video Room artist

Francois Knoetze

( South Africa)

Born in Cape Town, Francois Knoetze is a performance artist, sculptor and filmmaker. He holds a BA Fine Arts degree from Rhodes University and an MFA in Fine Arts degree from Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT (both with distinction).

In 2012 Knoetze featured as one of Art South Africa magazine’s “Bright Young Things” and was recently selected as one of Mail & Guardian’s “Top 200 Young South Africans” of 2015. Knoetze’s work incorporates video, performance and sculpture, as he retraces the life cycles of discarded objects and explores junctures between material and social histories. In his Mongo* sculptural suits, the synthetic is welded to the human – bringing focus to the objectification of persons, through the personification of objects.

Videos

Cape Mongo

Cape Mongo, formed part of the Grahamstown National Arts Festival Main Programme in 2015. He has participated in group exhibitions, such as U/Tropiaat the Wiener Festwochen in Germany (2015), Slow Violence at the University Stellenbosch Art Gallery (2015) and Designing Futures at the Lagos Photo Festival (2015). His work has also been shown at a number of local and international film festivals, including the WNDX Festival of Moving Image 2015 (winner of the Jury Prize for Best International Work), the 17th Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, Artvideo Koeln: Audiovisual Experiences in Cologne (2015), Infecting The City Public Art Festival in Cape Town (2015), Usurp Zone5 Film Festival at the Usurp Art Gallery & Studio in London (2015), the FILMIDEO International Film Festival at the Index Art Center in Newark, New Jersey (2015) and OK.Video Film Festival in Indonesia (2015).

Mongo n. slang. object thrown away and then recovered.

More info: https://francoisknoetze.carbonmade.com

soundscapes & soundportraits

Soundscapes & Soundportraits 3 | 20.04.2018

John Russell (Gitarre | Guitar)

Ute Wassermann (Stimme | Vocals)

Soundscapes & Soundportraits: Toolbox | German Finnish Art Space Berlin, Koloniestraße 120, 13359 Berlin Wedding (Google Maps) | U-Bahn Osloer Straße

Freitag  20. April 2018:  Konzert, Einlass 20 Uhr

Einführung: Carl Wilkens
please scroll down for the English version


Ute Wassermann (Stimme | Vocals)

Ute Wassermann

Ute Wassermann, Photo: Georgia Fanelli

Ute Wassermann ist als Vokalkünstlerin und Komponistin für ihre vielstimmige Klangsprache bekannt, die sie in verschiedene Zusammenhänge der experimentellen und Neuen Musik einbringt. Ihr Gesang entfernt sich von dem üblichen akustischen Klangbild der menschlichen Stimme und löst Assoziationen etwa von Klängen von Vögeln, Maschinen oder Elektronik aus. Zusätzlich „maskiert“ sie ihre Stimme mit Gaumen- und Vogelstimmenpfeifen, singt durch Resonanz- und Lautsprecherobjekte und entwirft Klanginstallationen.

Biografie

Wassermann studierte Bildende Kunst (Klanginstallationen/Performance) an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg und der University of California, San Diego, unter anderem bei Henning Christiansen und Allan Kaprow. Als Improvisatorin tritt sie regelmäßig mit MusikerInnen der internationalen Szene auf.

Sie ist Mitglied des Berliner Composer-Performer-Ensembles Les Femmes Savantes. Als Stimmsolistin im Bereich der Neuen Musik und experimentellen Musik ist Ute Wassermann auf Festivals und Bühnen in Europa, Australien, Asien, USA und in Museen, Kunsthallen, Clubs vertreten. Sie hat verschiedene Stipendien erhalten, unter anderem war sie 2015 Stipendiatin der Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italien.


John Russell (Gitarre | Guitar)

John Russel

John Russel

John Russell neigt zu großen Intervallen, zu entschieden segmentiertem und perkussivem Spiel und systematischer Variation des Timbres und der Tonerzeugung (leere Saite, Kapodaster, harmonisch, hinter dem Steg).

Im Duo ist sein Ausdruck noch dynamischer und auffälliger als im Trio oder in größeren Ensembles. Mit nur einem Gegenüber reagiert Russell unmittelbar auf jede Phrase und erzeugt eine reiche und fließende Tonlandschaft. Mit beeindruckender sowohl geistiger als auch motorischer Reaktionsgeschwindigkeit und mit bemerkenswerter Präzision erzeugt er einen ungewöhnlich fließenden, flexiblen und vielseitigen Klang.

Biografie

John Russell bekam seine erste Gitarre 1965 und trat ab 1971 in London und Umgebung auf. 1972 kam er zum ersten Mal in Kontakt mit freier Improvisation. Seit 1974 unterrichtet er, tritt im Rundfunk auf (Radio und Fernsehen) und tourt in Großbritannien und im Ausland, in Österreich, Belgien, Kanada, Dänemark, Estland, Frankreich, Deutschland, Niederlande, Italien, Luxemburg, Schweden und Schweiz. 1991 begründete er MOPOMOSO, die längste ununterbrochene Konzertreihe in Großbritannien mit überwiegend improvisierter Musik. Er hat mit vielen der weltweit bedeutendsten Improisationsmusikerinnen und -musikern zusammengespielt und über 50 CDs aufgenommen.


Soundscapes & Soundportraits ist ein Projekt von Harri Sjöström und Andreas Wolf

Special Thanks to:

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English

Soundscapes & Soundportraits: Toolbox | German Finnish Art Space Berlin, Koloniestraße 120, 13359 Berlin Wedding (Google Maps) | U-Bahn Osloer Straße

Friday,  2 April 2018:  concert, doors 8pm

  • John Russell (Guitar)
  • Ute Wassermann (Vocals)

Introduction: Carl Wilkens


Ute Wassermann (Vocals)

Ute Wassermann

Ute Wassermann, Photo: Georgia Fanelli

As a vocal artist and composer, Ute Wasserman is well-known for her multifaceted tonal language, which she performs in various contexts of experimental music. Her vocal style differs from the usual sound of the human voice and elicits associations of birds, machines or electronics. Furthermore she “masks” her voice with the use of bird whistles and sings through resonating and sound amplifying objects, and she creates sound installations.

Biography

Ute Wassermann studied Fine Arts (Sound installation/performance) at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg and the University of California, San Diego, with Henning Christiansen and Allan Kaprow, among others. As an improvisation artist she regularly performs with internationally known musicians. She is a member of the Berlin based composer performer ensemble Les Femmes Savantes. In contemporary music she performs as a soloist at festivals, on stages, in museums, and clubs throughout Europe, Australia, Asia and the US. She is the recipient of several scholarships, in 2015 for example she got a grant from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Italy.


John Russell (Guitar)

John Russel

John Russel

Russell favors wide intervals, a resolutely segmented, percussive attack, and systematic variation of timbre and means of production (open string, fretted, harmonic, behind-the-bridge pling). In a duo, his playing is more energetic and obvious than in a trio or bigger ensemble. With only one other player to react to, Russell responds rapidly to every phrase, generating a full and fluid soundscape. It is difficult to judge which is the more impressive, the speed of his brain or that of his fingers; but both have to be spot on to produce improvised music this fluid and fluent.

Biography

John Russell got hold of his first guitar in 1965 and began playing in and around London from 1971. His involvement with the Free Music scene came early, from 1972 onwards. From 1974 his work extended into teaching, broadcasts (radio and television) and touring (continuing) in the United Kingdom and abroad, including Austria, Belgium, Canada; Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Luxembourg, Sweden and Switzerland.

In 1991, he started MOPOMOSO which has become the UK’s  longest running concert series featuring mainly improvised music.