01.05.2025
@Liebig12 & Galiläa-Kirche
“Kultur am Dorfplatz #1. Mai” is a collaborative event between the Liebig12 project space and the Galiläakirche supported by the District Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in order to promote a wider cultural program on may 1st.
4pm to 7pm @Liebig12
Opening Victoria Keddie´s new site specific project “Drift Choir, Human Connection in a Polyphony of Place” including an artist talk/conversation between Victoria, artist Mike Hentz (Van Gogh TV a.o) , as well as Dr. Cornelia Lund (fluctuating images), as part of the exhibition opening (further related opening times / detailed infos about the project here).
From May 1st to 30th, 2025, four locations – New York (Various Artists), Berlin (Liebig 12), Athens (Stellage), and Bogota´ – will be connected through a continuous exchange of sound and images. The project evolves through participation. Artists, musicians, and writers form a shared system that then branches out to engage the people in each local community through live interventions and activate dialogues between the locations.
8pm -10pm @Galiläakirche (doors 7.30pm)_ | Rigaer Straße 9 | 10247 Berlin |
a participatory liturgical performance entitled “Requiem for Democracy” is planned @Galiläakirche, featuring a lay choir and music from the neighborhood. In the performative liturgy, sound artist Marc Weiser and theater director Heiko Michels will perform the realistic dystopia of a twilight of democracy @Galiläakirche . The text fragments for the Requiem are composed of original quotations on the topic, collected in advance during street interviews in the neighborhood. A choir of approximately six performers from the neighborhood will comment on the liturgy through performative interventions in the nave. The Requiem will be musically framed and structured by Marc Weiser (guitar, vocals) and Caroline Tallone (hurdy-gurdy). Duration approximately 60 minutes.
9pm electronic artists / musicians Victoria Keddie & Frank Bretschneider will perform solo performances at the Galilee Church closing the day by 10pm.
All events are planned to be accessible and admission is free.
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Victoria Keddie is a NYC based multidisciplinary artist working with sound, video, installation and performance. Her work uncovers hidden narratives in ordinary artefacts and spaces, emphasising their role in shaping our collective history. Keddie’s projects are characterised by linking the disclosure and decoding of technological infrastructures (e.g. radio and television broadcasts) with storytelling to enable different narratives of media, their apparatuses and conditions that expand a unified history of technology. The examination of acoustic phenomena and language is a recurring theme in her artistic work. Keddie’s current projects explore the acoustic complexity of language and dialects. Victoria Keddie is co-director of E.S.P. TV, a durational live broadcasting project exploring the medium of television for performance, video and sound. >> more about her sounds at https://victoriakeddie.bandcamp.com/album/apsides & https://raster-media.net/artist/victoria-keddie/
Mike Hentz is an international painter, graphic artist, photographer, musician, performance artist and video artist. He has taught at various art schools and, as a member of Van Gogh TV, explored the potential of media art on television. Van Gogh TV was a group of artists and a network of artists who wanted to use new media techniques to free television viewers from their role as passive recipients and enable them to help shape the programme. To this end, a series of technologies and dramaturgies for interactive television were developed, produced and shown – mostly on 3sat. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hentz
Dr. Cornelia Lund is an art, film and media researcher and curator based in Berlin. She has been researching and teaching for many years, primarily on audiovisual artistic practices, documentary film and documentary practices, design theory and de- and postcolonial theories (including at the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Applied Sciences Berlin, the University of the Arts Bremen and the PUC São Paulo). https://www.fluctuating-images.de
After founding the cassette label klangFarBe in 1986, Frank Bretschneider founded the influential East German underground band AG Geige. They released three albums before disbanding in 1993. Together with Olaf Bender, also a member of AG Geige, Bretschneider founded the record label Rastermusic in 1995, which was renamed raster-noton after the merger with Carsten Nicolai’s label noton in 1999. In addition to his releases on raster-noton, Bretschneider’s music has appeared on various other labels such as 12k, Line, Mille Plateaux and Shitkatapult and can be found on well-known compilations such as ‘CLICKS & CUTS’ by Mille Plateaux or raster-noton’s ‘20 TO 2000’ series, which was awarded the Golden Nica by Ars Electronica. His album ‘RHYTHM’ was one of The Wire’s top releases in 2007. In addition to his work as a musician, Bretschneider is also active as a producer and was honoured with the renowned Karl Sczulli Award for his production of Carsten Nicolai’s ‘In The Woods There Is A Bird …’ was honoured with the renowned Karl Sczuka Prize for Radio Drama as Radio Art in 2017. http://www.frankbretschneider.de/
Marc Weiser has toured as a sound artist on electronic hardware, as well as on the concert guitar and as an experimental singer at major festivals on all five continents. He is a long-time cultural manager and organizer (CTM Festival, Volksbühne, HBC, Maria am Ostbahnhof). Currently, as a board member, he is responsible for the concert program of the Galiläakirche Berlin-Friedrichshain, with around 100 concerts annually. With his Uckermark Psychogeography Festival, he explores the ecological and social subconscious of a region.
Caroline Cecilia Tallone, born in 1978 in Switzerland, lives as a musician and violin maker in Berlin-Friedrichshain, where she also has her workshop. With a broad musical background, she plays experimental and electroacoustic music on her modified hurdy-gurdy. She has performed throughout Europe, organized events, and participated in artistic residencies. She also works in sound research and has appeared in the series Babylon Berlin. https://www.ateliertallone.com/
Heiko Michels scriptete und inszenierte zahlreiche ortsspezifische Performances, auch für Orte wie den Berliner Dom, den Andreasstift Worms, das Kloster Eberbach oder die Elisabeth-Kirche Berlin. Als künstlerischer Leiter der Rathaus-Spiele Oderberg und Moderator der ODER TALKS (Theater am Rand) setzt er sich kreativ wie diskursiv mit der Krise des demokratischen Selbstverständnisses im ostdeutschen Raum auseinander.
Kultur am Dorfplatz#
The title “”Kultur am Dorfplatz #1. Mai (Culture at the Village Square)” dates back to a festival series launched in 2021 in Friedrichshain’s Nordkiez (North District) to provide a positive counter to the so-called “danger zone” associated to the district and in particular to the “dorfplatz” so highly hyped in the media at the time due the activities of the left anarchist movement. Later on, the title was further used for the cultural program @Galiläakirche and connected neighbour cultural initiatives.
The idea sparked out of the network of existing independent spaces in Friedrichshain’s Nordkiez (TIK, Fischladen, Lauschangriff, Liebig12, Palais Wittgenstein) and the formation of a group of volunteers from the neighborhood, from which the association that has operated @Galiläakirche ever since was founded in early 2024.
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