8ight, #8 of 8 exhibition series
05.-07.12.2024
performative sound objects // AIR.FINITE
by Daria Redkina (UA)
8ight // for 8 audiovisual exhibitions
frei-raum.berlin is showing the exhibition series 8ight, which will feature sound art and audiovisual art installations, performances and artistic research. This series runs from April to December 2024, with eight sequential presentations, each characterised by the number of acoustic sources/speakers: from one in the first exhibition to eight in the last. The symbolic meaning of the number 8 for time, connection and renewal is reflected in this gradual increase. At the end of the 8 exhibitions, a printed art object, in a limited edition of 8, will be published on our label F with a summary of all the works.
#8 acoustic sources of 8ight –
// AIR.FINITE, performative sound objects by Daria Redkina (UA)
on view 05.12. Thursday, 17:30-19h
06.12. Friday, 16:30-20h
07.12. Saturday,15-19h
LIVE interactions, start 20h - space is limited, donation 10-20 EUR
Thursday, 05.12.2024 // Inna Krasnoper (RU), Daria Redkina (UA) // Lucio Capece (AR) Saturday, 07.12.2024 // Emanuele Porcinai (IT), Daria Redkina (UA), Pablo Lienhard (CH)
// Daria Redkina presents ‘Air’Finite’ - a performative sound sculpture that transforms air into a tangible and dynamic medium through an ensemble of weather balloons, each equipped with reeds and played via a custom-built electro-
mechanical system.
This piece explores the finiteness of air—the very substance we breathe - and by making air both audible and visually graspable, Air’Finite may encourage us to reflect on the invisible forces that shape our world.
about the artist
Daria Redkina (UA) is a Ukrainian sound artist based in Berlin.
Working on the intersection of sound design, sculpture and interactive media she explores electroacoustic sound and microtonal composing methods using deconstructed accordion and electronics as her instruments. She deconstructed the accordion into singular reed organs and continues to develop this custom built wind instrument , adapting it for various projects.
She has performed , recorded and released music as solo and in collaboration with other artists - as one half of electronic folk duet Cotenius X and founder/leading member of a music collective Augmented Aural.
Lucio Capece (AR) is an Argentinian musician based in Berlin since 2004. Active as an Improviser and New Music performer since the late 90́s, he offers works focused on the perceptive experience, performing solo and in the context of occasional collaborations based in the same interest. He also works in the context of stable groups as a composer and performer. He composes works that may include improvisation and different ways of writing. He uses tools like Flying Speakers hanging from Helium Balloons, Speakers as Pendulums, Analog synthesiser, Sine Waves and Noise Generators, Drum Machines, Ultra- Violet Lights, Sensors as much as the instruments that he has played for 25 years - Bass Clarinet and Soprano and Slide Saxophone. Beyond instrumentation and tools, the main intention is to focus in the physical-social-spatial human experience.
In the last 5 years Capece has developed projects in the context of what he considers a Phenomenology of Music making . In this context he has developed several bands like Rahma Quartet, FS5 Quintet, Lost Jockey trio and duos with Katie Porter, Monika Zyla and Victoria Alexandrova.
Inna Krasnoper (RU) is a poet and artist based in Berlin.
She graduated from the Chto Delat Collective School of Engaged Art in Saint Petersburg and holds a BA in Dance, Context, Choreography from University of the Arts in Berlin. Her Russophone poetry collections include Нитки торчат (Loose Threads), published by the Voznesensky Center, and Дорогой человек (Dear Person), published by NLO. Her English-language poetry has appeared in her chapbooks Over Sight (Eulalia Books) and Sealed (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press), as well as in Annulet, Ghost Proposal, Pocket Samovar, Oversound, SAND, and 128 LIT.
She has participated in several collaborations and presented her choreographic work at Uferstudios Berlin, Veem House, Acker Stadt Palast, minus20degree, Queens Collective, and elsewhere.
Emanuele Porcinai (IT) is an acoustic engineer and musician.
His practice extends in the field of room acoustics, electroacoustics/musical acoustics and experimental algorithmic applications for music composition and the sound arts. He collaborates with engineers, programmers and architects in the development of such projects.
Pablo Lienhard (CH) is an improviser and sound artist. He can regularly be found performing on saxophones, (no-input) mixing desks, effect pedals or computers in different contexts. He curates music event series Odyssey bringing together Berlin's experimental artists together.
