Katharina Pelosi, What knots knot knots (Premiere) Hans Unstern, Golden Scale (UA), Voice (UA) Neo Hülcker, LarynX (Premiere)
In X – FMN*, the composers Hans Unstern, Neo Hülcker, Katharina Pelosi and Heinrich Horwitz and the Ensemble Garage musicians take the audience with them to Uranus. Paul B. Preciado, the philosopher, curator and one of the leading thinkers in the fields of gender studies and philosophy of the body, describes in his book An Apartment on Uranus, Chronicles of a Transition (2020) a place that could become a new home for people without a binary identity. Uranus as utopia: as a place of sexual and gender dissidence. This evening, Ensemble Garage seeks to create this place through music.
Premieres by Neo Hülcker, Katharina Pelosi and Hans Unstern are programmed features of this rather unusual evening, and self-made harps 'tune' the room. The concert, staged by director Heinrich Horwitz, deals with questions and topics such as: Can (new) music be genderless? - Are there gender attributes inscribed in (new) music? - The binary gender order only allows two options. - Art could be a place where the outcome does not have to have a gender. - What happens when we no longer know where and who started something? - The musicians could be understood as in-between beings, parts of the non-binary, in that it remains unclear whether the instruments or the musicians create the art.
BIOGRAPHIES
Heinrich Horwitz is a director, choreographer and actor. They studied acting direction and choreography at the HfS Ernst Busch Berlin and were invited with their productions to the Heidelberger Stückemarkt and the Autoren Festival Maximierung Mensch in Trier, among others. They regularly work with the Decoder Ensemble, The Agency, Alexander Schubert, Carola Schaal and Sarah Nemtsov, among others, at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and for Deutschlandfunk. Heinrich also works as an actor for theatre, film and television. They were awarded the Dance and Theatre Prize of Stuttgart City and the Region of Baden-Württemberg, as well as the Adolf Grimme Prize. Since 2016, Heinrich has held a teaching position at the Schauspielschule Bühnenstudio [Drama School Stage Studio] Hamburg.
Katharina Pelosi studied at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen and works as an audio artist in the fields of performance, choreography, radio play and installation. She understands music and sound as equal means in the theatrical process and deals with sound-based forms of remembering as well as the transformation of visual phenomena into the acoustic medium. She has realized soundwalks, audio pieces and installations, and is co-founder of the feminist performance and media collective Swoosh Lieu. She also works regularly with Simone Dede Ayivi, costa compagnie, Antje Velsinger, Geheimagentur and Moritz Frischkorn, among others. In 2019, she received the Leipzig Hörspielsommer Award [for Radio Plays] and was a scholarship holder at Villa Kamogawa / Goethe Institute Japan, the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul and Casa Baldi / Italy.
Neo Hülcker is a composer-performer whose focus is on music as an anthropological investigation in everyday living environments. Hülcker studied composition with Dieter Mack and Harald Muenz at the Musikhochschule Lubeck and with Manos Tsangaris and Franz Martin Olbrisch at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. Their compositions mostly take shape in the form of situations, performances, installations, videos, actions and interventions and deal with digital practices (such as ASMR), childhood, animal-human relationships, queer behaviours and cultural hacking. They have been performed during the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (DE), Wien Modern (A), Warsaw Autumn (PL), London Contemporary Music Festival (GB), Munich Biennale (DE), Sound Acts (Athens, GR), International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt (DE) and Dark Music Days (IS), among others.
Hans Unstern creates songs, lyrics, musical instruments and performances. The debut album Kratz Dich Raus [Dig Yourself Out] was released in 2010, followed in 2012 by the album The Great Hans Unstern Swindle and the poetry collection Hanky Panky Know How with Merve Publishing Berlin. Unstern has participated in free dance and theatre pieces since 2014. In 2016, Unstern founded the BOIBAND together with Tucké Royale and Black Cracker. Their radio play debut DIVEN [premix] had its premiere broadcast on NDR in 2017. In 2016/2017 Unstern and Simon Bauer brought the performance series Pop & Geheimwissen, das Wort mit dem V in der Mitte [Pop & Secret Knowledge, the word with the V in the middle] to the stage at Hebel Am Ufer Theater HAU3. Unstern and Simon Bauer built five new harps in 2015-2020 and produced their third studio album DIVEN.
Ensemble Garage The ten members of Ensemble Garage seek answers to artistic, social and aesthetic questions that shape our time. At the same time, the ensemble seeks means and methods for contemporary compositional expression fields. The focus is on reflecting the (post)-internet society with all its digital-media manifestations and the development in new music towards transmedial, theatrical and performative production forms. This includes the importance of cooperation with other artists. It has already organised numerous exchange concerts with young composers all over Europe and regularly works with guest curators and artists from other fields, such as video (Warped Type and others) or dance (Mouvoir / Stephanie Thiersch and others). The ensemble regularly performs at renowned festivals at home and abroad and is a permanent partner of FRAU MUSICA NOVA.
