Selected Documentation from Fonds Darstellende Künste #TakeHeart Residency, Kampnagel 2022 WORKSHOP – TECHNIQUES FOR AUDITORY RESISTANCE In this periodic performance workshop, we invite any and all musicians and non musicians to take part in a conceptual mapping of a chosen area. On the 30th of June, using the garden at Kampnagel as our epicenter, we…

Wednesday 8th March 2023 We leave the residency space and drive across the highways to Naples Airport, returning the car. There is always something strange to endings, especially in contemporary capitalism. You leave behind the connections, pay the tollway, buy a cheap sandwich, return the rental car, board a plane and one world dissolves and…

Tuesday 7th March 2023 This marks our final day in Italy, and we set off towards Ariano Irpino, a midway point en route to Naples from where we shall return to Berlin. Our first stop is Mefite, a sulphurous lake valley located near Rocca San Felice, Villamaina, and Torella dei Lombardi. Mefite is named for…

Monday 6th March 2023 Returning our attention to our surroundings, we perform a geographical, political, social and spiritual mapping of the Dimora Cagnazzi. This exercise is a cornerstone of our practice, one we have returned to again and again since we began our experiments in ritual with the Critical Magic performance and album. It is…

Sunday 5th March 2023 We wake up and make a sound expedition through the house, moving from room to room, taking the objects we found, and exploring the affordances they give. We take video and pictures as well, with the vague idea of making an integrated audiovisual work. Some powerful moments are discovering an unused…

Saturday 4th March 2023 Today we hold our ritual-performance-workshop “Stillicidum: Die Tränen des Steines” in the so-called “Cemetery of Stone Blocks”. Our general goals are to produce a composition of sound and movement where synchronicity emerges rather than being imposed, that we find a way to move and sound together. We ask all those gathered…

Friday 3rd March 2023 We follow Donato’s white van across the scrublands, weaving a path between Altamura and the nearby town of Gravina. Arriving at our destination, we park our cars at the edge of a massive crevice. Peering below the grassy edge, it’s difficult to see what lies beneath. Three women greet us: an…