ANNA SCHIMKAT
22.09. • 15:00 – 17:30 • Karl-Heine-Kanal
Anna Schimkat enters the field of sound art with her sound installations and performances. Whether live or as an installation, she explores processes, causes, and regularities of natural, societal, and culturally created reality within their respective contexts. She asks how we experience things at all and how we can sharpen our awareness of the process of experiencing for ourselves as well as for the viewer. She is particularly interested in conscious perception of sound spaces, which she approaches with a multidisciplinary approach. The discovered sound of things and the environment serve as inspiration and foundation. Self-built instruments and field recordings of her main instrument, the world around us, serve as sound material. Playfully, she explores and follows the respective concept, filtering out the specific sound and form, including ringing, buzzing, noise, clicking, growling, crashing, and humming.
In addition to works for public spaces, her works have been exhibited internationally, including at obPHON Sound Art Days (Kirschau, Germany), La Station Vastemonde (St. Brieuc, France), Goethe-Institut (Damascus, Syria), Kunstraum Michael Barthel (Leipzig, Germany), 24 Gauche Series (Montreal, Canada), ausland (Berlin, Germany), Longbridge Light Festival (Birmingham, United Kingdom), Festival for Experimental Music (Munich, Germany), Vadehavsfestival (Blavandshuk, Denmark), Inact Festival de Performances Transmedias (Strasbourg, France), BB15 (Linz, Austria), the church in Mutzschen (Mutzschen, Germany), Gallery for Contemporary Art (Leipzig, Germany), RE:FLUX 16 FESTIVAL (Moncton, Canada), Reshape Festival (Miami Beach, USA).
Photo © Oliver Weiße
