SIGNALRAUM. BEST PRACTICE

Horst Konietzny and guests

“The guiding principle of the Bauhaus was therefore the idea of creating a new unity through the welding together of many ‘arts’ and movements: a unity having its basis in man himself and significant only as a living organism.” Walter Gropius

In his famous manifesto, Gropius formulates the high expectations on the effectiveness of the Bauhaus ideas. His vision encompassing all the arts contributes to the myth of the Bauhaus
as the refuge of the unity of all things and phenomena and the place where the world’s turmoil may be ended.
SIGNALRAUM is inspired by the thesis of the positive changeability of the world through collaborative, aesthetic practice and puts it to the test. Hall 1 provides a space for this with sound and visual installations, concerts, interventions, participative formats for the viewers’ aesthetic experience, lectures and discussions, inviting visitors to interact.
BEST PRACTICE is designed as a space for action and encounter. The central and reference point is the installation of a text and sound collage for which Horst Konietzny asks artists of all disciplines about art experiences that changed their lives. In the Matchpoint 4 blind date format visitors are invited to actively get to grips with their experience of art.
UNIKATE Concerts and performances, whose theme and basic motif is playing with musical instruments you develop yourself.

Konzept & Regie: Horst Konietzny

Horst Konietzny is a director, author, lecturer and curator focusing
on interdisciplinary projects. He has been head of the modular and mobile Signalraum as an interdisciplinary project for sound art and new media since June 2012. Current developments in the area of
interdisciplinary, media supported art forms are presented and own formats are developed in concerts, symposia, workshops, exhibitions, sessions and performances.
www.reframes.de

In addition to the TEXT and SOUND COLLAGE, various different performances and interventions are also going on all the time.

VOLL STOFF!
Continuous performance
Lisa Simpson, Steffi Müller, Klaus Dietl
Musical sewing machines and more.
A quirky poetic sewing-sound art as a continuous musical-visual performance and homage to artists such as Anni Albers. The group weaves itself musically into the secrets of the Bauhaus-typical textile art. Voll Stoff! Or “totally textile”! www.hoelle.media/en/

Friday 18 January, 4 to 5 p.m.: VOLL STOFF EXTRA!
Voll Stoff EXTRA: Concert for Amplified Sewing Machines including movie, radio play and various techniques in electro-bricolage-readymade fashion.

MATCHPOINT 4
Marek Choloniewski / Horst Konietzny
While the sound collage runs, visitors can meet for a blind date chat on the power of art in the hall 1 lounge and talk to artists and curators involved with the festival and other visitors. Leave a brief note on the chat and you can be part of the closing concert on the Friday, where the dialogue with the audience is musically translated and continued. (Register for a free date via the website or directly on-site in the Academy)

VIOLINENAUTOMAT
Karl. F. Gerber
A truly special unicum is the Violinautomat by Karl F. Gerber, because it further interprets what is probably the most difficult traditional musical instrument – the violin. Perhaps it’s more about polyrhythms on three separate bows than about belcanto. And enhanced playing techniques with musical automats as well now? The sounds visualise themselves through the chosen concept. The unique Violinautomat can be heard with new compo­sitions on Thursday and Friday at 12 noon. www.roboterjazz.com

TURNTABLISMS
Ignaz Schick
The Berlin-based composer and sound artist Ignaz Schick will try out his “spiel” with Rotating Surfaces on visual Bauhaus motifs. László Moholy-Nagy was already experimenting with soundboards, which he saw as sound sources rather than sound carriers.
Thursday 17 January, 2 to 3 p.m.

PHILOSOPHICAL CONSULTATION
Guillaume Paoli
The French philosopher was the house philosopher at the Leipzig Theatre, organised a series of discussions in the Roter Salon of the Volksbühne, and also developed the format of the philosophical consultation. Paoli will hold a special form of his consultation in the hall 1 lounge, where he’ll provide a special insight into the Bauhaus.
Thursday 17 January, 4 to 5 p.m.

DINE DONEFF SOLO 
Dine Doneff (contra bass / percussion) works as a musician and composer. He left his home town in Western Macedonia to become a musician, and has since worked in numerous ensembles with an exceptionally high variety of styles. He’s made a number of recordings with Savina Yannatou on ECM and his own label, neRED Music, among others. He’s also produced theatre work for the Munich Kam­ merspiele and the Thalia Theater Hamburg, and others.
www.dinedoneff.com
Friday 18 January, 2 to 3 p.m.

Hall 1
Admission fee for all exhibitions/installations:
EUR 12 (EUR 8 reduced) on january 17/18

The tickets for exhibitions are not available online. Please purchase your ticket directly at the ticket counter at AdK.