Events/Openings

Opening on Friday, November 21st, 2014 at 6.30 pm with Dr. Franziska Giffey, Councillor for Education, Schools, Culture and Sports of the district Berlin-Neukölln

8 pm: Concert by Tomoko Sauvage

Duration of the exhibition: November 21 to December 12, 2014
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 11 am to 7 pm

Sound installation by Tomoko Sauvage, with an intervention by Heidrun Schramm. Each exhibition is accompanied by artist workshops with children and adolescents from local educational institutions, which are developed and carried out in collaboration with local educators.

Tomoko Sauvage is an experimental musician and sound artist. She lives and works in Paris, France. Sauvage exhibited, held workshops and performed solo or in collaboration with musicians and choreographers throughout Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan. Since years Sauvage is developing an "electro–aquatic" instrument out of porcelain bowls in various sizes, water in its different aggregate-states and Hydrophones. She is playing water literally by putting it in motion through touch or other means. Her music, played with fragile tonalities and room acoustics is in a constant process of movement and dissolution and produces organic drones, woven out of natural overtones and precisely-tuned, warm feedbacks.

In November 2010 Sauvage realised her first long-durational performance in the frame of WHISTLE, MINOTAURE!, curated by Francesco Cavaliere and Marcel Türkowsky at Grimmuseum, Berlin. Since, she has been developing this work and toured through various european concert halls with it. This performance takes place in an ephemeral installation build out of ice-blocks dripping into amplified porcelain bowls and lasts about three to six hours. The Temporary Gallery is now showing this sound installation for the first time over a period of three weeks. Tomoko Sauvage will perform in and with it solely at the exhibition opening evening at 8 pm. In the following weeks she will give a series of "mini-concerts" for children of the surrounding kindergartens.

Heidrun Schramm is a Berlin-Neukölln based media artist and composer, who works in the fields of electroacoustic music, installation and video with a special interest in low-fi electronics. She studied acoustic communication at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK) with a focus on Sound Art. Her acoustic works and Installations follow the principles Musique Concrète, which she is transferring also to the medium video. Her live performances – solo or together with Nicolas Wiese – sound out the middle ground in-between concerts and sound installations. Schramm is working as a sound designer for film and radio, taught at the UdK Berlin (2013) as well as the HFBK Dresden and conducts numerous sound and video workshops for children since 2011.

In the frame of TRANSFORMATION III Heidrun Schramm will conduct a sound workshop for children from the comprehensive school on campus Rütli, together with the music teacher Maja Dürr. The children's attention shall be directed to their sonic environment and its everyday sounds. They will get to know and try out a variety of recording technologies, build contact microphones and experiment with them, create sound collages, play music together, make experiences with silence in music and will test out the dramatic pause as a rhetorical figure. The children will present their sounds in the shape of a performative presentation on December 12 in the gallery.