In 2020 Andreas Ullrich was Goethe Institute Bangalore eXpanded resident in Pepper House/Kochi. The residency was interrupted in march 2020 by the corona pandemie and he had to be evacuated alongside other german professionals from India. In the first days of the Indian lockdown he recorded parts of the material for this installation bringing back this surreal dream to the place where it originated. Reflecting on the many ideas of identity that were fragmented and torn into pieces in these months he is raising the question of a “normal” identity or “persona” as such.
Sofy (@_the_s0urce_) is a site-specific media artist and educator working with sound, video, interactivity, projections, code, paper, and salvaged material. Her work focuses on techno-occult rituals, street performance, and participatory art. Sofy’s performances enact and reframe hegemonies, she works with materials that exemplify our deep entanglement with petro-culture and technology’s affect on consciousness. She has worked on projects at Eyebeam, 3LD, the Netherlands Institute voor Media Kunst, Steim, ARS Electronica, Games for Learning Institute, The Guggenheim (NYC), The National Mall and has taught at GAFFTA, MoMA, NYU, Srishti, and the Rubin Museum. She is a PhD Candidate in Audio-Visual Composition at NYU GSAS.
Julius is currently bangaloREsident at Indian Music Experience in collaboration with Goethe Institut Bangalore.
Julius Gabriel (b. 1988 in Berlin) is a musician, performing and recording artist. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the saxophone in all its limits and dimensions, emphasizing the multidimensional unfolding of sound through spatial and electroacoustics. He is dedicated to improvisation, uses extended playing techniques, self-made hybrid instruments, electronics and amplification tools.
This is an ongoing experiment where the performer is searching for performance in the presence of and in response to a live audience. The idea is to allow the body to lead the artist into herself where she finds sounds, words, movement and interactions in the hope to find what she is looking for. This piece plays with the concept of what is considered a complete work and what is process? what is personal or private to a performer and what is public.
Avril Stormy Unger is an interdisciplinary artist whose work across mediums is informed by the nuances of performance. Her practice spans durational performance, live art, movement art, video, interventions and installations. Her artistic practice is impulsive, deeply personal and unbound by discipline.
Her solo show ‘Almirah’ was shown at 1, Shanthi Rd, Bangalore in 2022. Avril was invited to the Embodied Arts Festival, Oyoun, Berlin in 2021 where she produced video works ‘Mirage’ and ‘Untangle’. She created an artist book ‘I think it sucks’ in collaboration with Renuka Rajiv which was shown at Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi in 2020.
Avril lives and practices between Bangalore and Goa, India
Dirk Wachtelaer has been playing drums for over 35 years. As a sideman he has played in numerous groups in all possible styles, as a leader he founded the ensemble Vanishing Pictures in 1999, with performances at home and abroad and 4 CD recordings. In addition to drums, he has also experimented with electronics for many years. The common thread running through his trajectory is improvisation.
He was most in the spotlight as a drummer with Paul Schutze’s ensemble Phantom City, including Bill Laswell on bass, with rave reviews from the international press (including from the renowned magazine Wire). He has worked extensively with Japanese trumpeter Toshinori Kondo with whom he has done a tour of Japan in addition to CD recordings. Other long-term collaborations were with Stevie Wishart (duo, Transient) and with the Belgian Pablo’s Eye. In Belgium he has collaborated numerous times with Luc Mishalle, mainly in ensembles with African musicians. He has also been active in music theater, among others as musical director and performer in Midsummer Night’s Dream by theater Froe Froe for which he put together an ensemble with Chinese musicians, and as a member of Cro Magnon together with Chris Lomme (Zoon, Braakland).
Currently, Dirk Wachtelaer focuses exclusively on improvisation, in various ad hoc ensembles but also with dance and/or image. Regular partners in crime are guitarist Alec Ilyine, electronics wizard Jürgen de Blonde (in duo and the trio The Begotten, together with Brecht Ameels) and of course the American instrument builder Dirk Johan Stromberg with whom he recorded 2 CDs as a duo.
Besides music Dirk Wachtelaer is also creating videos.
An immersive set where the line between the audience and performer blurred. The role of stage or set is devised to let the audience indulge into the experience. ‘Chaos’ is the base element for this audio-visual experience. ‘Chaos’ is a term adopted by the field of physics in the last 20 years or so to describe inconsistencies and nonlinearities found in many natural phenomena.
The sounds are made through pure data and diy gadgets that produce a different set of sounds each time. These gadgets are then interconnected to let the performers interact with each other. The visuals are made to ease into the experience, and have touches of physical motions.
Cynk Collective:
Cynk is a collective of 5 artists from various contemporary art practices. Our skill set as a collective is diverse, ranging from projection based installations, using interactive gadgets, audio installations/performance and building large scale sculptures. We share a collective vision towards creating immersive experiences by combining technology and performance driven by discourse.
Cynk is comprised of Amyth Venkataramaiah, Kaldi Moss, Amyth Venkataramaiah, Vivek Chockalijngam.
Since the beginning of her academic education the focus of her artistic research lays on sound art. Thereby the handling of ordinary items and the reaction to existing structures is the priority. With her installations she links to architectonic elements, embraces them and tries to use available energies. In creating her sound objects or instruments, she combines things and materials like household items or construction material. In performances, the artist interacts with these objects and instruments and creates a sound atmosphere by recording and looping the generated sounds.
Lambert, born 1987, studied fine arts at the HBKSaar from 2012 to 2018 with a semester abroad at the Academy of Arts in Tallinn, Estonia, (2016) and a following postgraduate studies (Meisterstudierende) under Prof. Andreas Oldörp (2018-2020). Before that, she completed an apprenticeship as a media designer and is still working in this field.
Currently bangaloREsident at ISRO in collaboration with Goethe Institut Bangalore.
