FA’ PAWAKA, LABOUR

with Sainkho Namtchylak

EVENTIDE

SEP 15,16 - 8 pm, 10 pm

Julia Stoschek Collection

Leipziger Strasse 60
10117 Berlin

Within the framework of the group exhibition at dawn, JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION and REIF are excited to premiere a new, site-specific collaboration between the multidisciplinary artist Fa’ Pawaka and the sonic duo LABOUR, uniting Pawaka’s practice of “sacred tunings” with LABOUR’s “sonic activations.” Titled Eventide, the evening will consist of a sonic parcours led by the artists and will culminate in a sound bath in the upstairs cinema.

The program is assembled by Berlin-based collective REIF, and explores notions of recalibration and expansion, proposing a deliberate undoing of preconceived ideas and limitations within and around us. It centers the experience of the audience and represents a continuation of REIF’s past explorations, often manifested as gatherings, LPs, and videos, which have been developed through its record label and events. REIF was founded around ideas of collective, community-based engagement through which they seek to enable various forms of togetherness and release.

According to a quote by Alice Coltrane, from which at dawn, the exhibition’s title, is borrowed, every morning–at dawn–we should “sit at the feet of action.” This saying encourages us to recalibrate and set an intention and goes on to suggest that, at eventide (or evening), we should become so big that “sky will learn sky.” Eventide can refer to the space of a day but also of a lifetime, and conjures a state in which we are open to the universe, becoming conduits for what the cosmos has to offer. In their activation Fa’ Pawaka and LABOUR work toward this recalibration and sonic catharsis, inviting us to listen and feel our bodies in relation to each other and everything around us.

Curated by Marcelo Alcaide, Lisa Long.

Composition: Fa’ Pawaka, LABOUR
Gong: Elisa Lindenberg
Throat Singing: Sainkho Namtchylak
Scenography: Roberta Jurcic, Marcelo Alcaide with Zakaria Rugs
Light: GRAU
Choir, Percussion: Show Choir
Custom Sound System by H.A.N.D. HiFi

Thanks to Callie’s for the studio space.

Supported by Nike ISPA

ISPA is a philosophy. A set of design principles that represents a pinnacle, experimental expression of Nike design across all categories, including the latest innovations and established creations. It is product-agnostic, driven by experimentation and targeted toward solving problems for unique athletes and artists.
ISPA is a belief that, with a little inspiration, any problem can be solved with the materials at hand.

FA’ PAWAKA

Fa‘ Pawaka, a.k.a. Fahrani Empel, a.k.a. favelamunk, is a multidisciplinary Indonesian artist that lives in Berlin. In the last four years, she has worked with alchemy crystal bowls, fascinated by their healing qualities and the body’s immediate calm in response to them. Sacred Tuning is an immersive experience that releases psychological blockages, lowers emotions, and activates our pineal gland. It was created with Olle Holmberg and Elisa Lindenberg. “Our cells are made out of crystalline structures; therefore, the crystal bowl’s frequencies are received by humans directly at the cellular level in the process,” Fa’ says. “It is a powerful activation.”

LABOUR

LABOUR is the collaborative project of Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander, whose compositions and performances center on the transformative potential of sound. Trained in molecular biology, Hatam works primarily with SuperCollider, a complex platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition that is a language unto itself. Hacklander is a percussionist, drummer, and composer, with a background in post-tonal theory and electronic music. As LABOUR, they compose ambitious and reverently experimental audio works. Their practice promotes active listening and heightened sensory awareness, which form the core of their “sonic activations” series that continues their exploration of acoustic space as a potentially radical gesture. The name LABOUR is inspired in part by an early definition of Marx that gives ontological significance to the realm of work, as articulated by the philosopher Christopher J. Arthurs, who defines labor as “the ontologically fundamental productive activity in and through which one becomes what one is.”

SAINKHO NAMTCHYLAK

Sainkho Namtchylak, born in Tuva on the border to Mongolia, is a singer, poet, writer, performer and painter educated in music ethnography and voice teaching at Akademie of Gnesin in Moscow. Namtchylak has released multiple free jazz albums, published two books of poetry, and exhibited in Austria, China, Russia, and Italy.

GRAU

GRAU is an interdisciplinary artist duo that explores how living light can mediate the emotional relationship between humans and their environment through immersive installations, sculptures, and products.

H.A.N.D. HiFi

In a landscape dominated by off-the-shelf mass-produced sound systems, H.A.N.D. HiFi specializes in building unique audio experiences, particular to each surrounding. The prototype used in Eventide at JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION was originally designed to be set-up as four-point system on a dance floor with roughly 150 sq.m. Displayed as a wall, listeners are confronted with all the sound coming from the same plane.

SHOW CHOIR

Show Choir, a newly founded performative mixed choral ensemble organized by Jessica Gadani and Anna von Glasenapp, intents to create a space for Berlin’s artists and performers to come together in song. In a very literal sense, individual voices are developed through a regular practice of harmonic togetherness.

ROBERTA JURCIC

Roberta Jurcic works as an architect at the bplus.xyz office in Berlin and teaches at the Design Studio s+ at ETH in Zürich. In her practice she investigates the connection between housing shortages in city centers and the privatization of land, and has co-founded the initiative Global Moratorium on New Construction.

ZAKARIA RUGS

Zakaria Rugs aims to restore the individual commitment to handcrafted goods, neglected through fast-paced, mass-produced, unsustainable production cycles.

The Fairest 01 - Open your Eyes Again

SEP 14/15/16/17/18
12 - 6 pm

REIF is excited to announce its second participation at THE FAIREST 01 with a sound sculpture developed in collaboration with Frederik Failin and a showcase of the label’s upcoming release of Steev Lemercier’s DEVA, happening on
September 14th at 6 pm.

The first edition of TF’s annual main fair, THE FAIREST 01: Open Your Eyes Again, brings together 60+ artists previously exhibited in five smaller scale “teaser” shows: TEASER 01: concept drop (Berlin), TEASER 02: care about every body (Berlin), TEASER 03: the rite to transform (Berlin), TEASER 04: non playable character (Venice), TEASER 05: cum as you are (Bad Gastein).

The teasers build up the content and spirit for the main fair, functioning at the core of THE FAIREST. The titles are a call to action and claim the value that is communicated and explored as the exhibition discourse. Each teaser is considered to unfold a new chapter of the project as if a book–THE FAIREST manifesto.

The title of the inaugural main fair, Open Your Eyes Again, appeals to constantly reflect and redefine what contemporary practice is and can be. It is a hint to look, listen, think, touch, smell, twice, three times, four times… To be more aware, critical and question the perception of the stereotypical and traditional conversation in art.
WHAT IS ART RIGHT NOW?

THE FAIREST 01: Open Your Eyes Again presents a wide variety of practices, following research, to demonstrate the density of artistic production that is happening in Berlin.

As fairs are typically gallery-built, positions presented can be predictable. In order to break with this, THE FAIREST brings back the essence of discovery to the art fair/market setting. Curated group shows cohesively maintain the artists’ works with meaning and dialogues, rather than placing individual objects in booths. Lively, immersive environments are created, with sound, participation, performative interventions and discussion.

ARTISTS

Ahmet Öğüt, Alicja Wysocka, Álvaro Guilherme, Anatomie Fleur, Anne de Vries, APPARATUS 22, Bastian Gehbauer, Benjamin Lallier, Billy Bultheel, Caleb Jamel Brown, Christian Thomsen (Fjorsk), Christophe de Rohan Chabot, Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, Coco Magnusson, Collo Awata & Vivien Hoffmann, Constantin Hartenstein, Cosima zu Knyphausen & Craig Stewart, Fashion, Gabriel Possamai, Gabriela Guarnizo, Hannah Hallermann / HAHA, Hannah Rose Stewart, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, Irene Ferndández Arcas, Jonas Wendelin, Jordan/Martin Hell, Julian-Jakob Kneer, Julie Monot, Katharina Ruhm, Kianí del Valle, Lauryn Youden, Lito Kattou, Lou de Bètoly, Lukas Städler, Lukas Stöver, Malte Bartsch, Manutcher Milani, Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Mathilde Agius, Mauro Ventura, Mikołaj Sobczak, Miriam Kongstad, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Nahir Francis, Nicholas Grafia, Niclas Riepshoff, Nicolas Maxim Endlicher, Nik Kosmas, OMSK Social Club, Pandora Graessl, Paul Ferens, REIF, Ryo Koike, Sally von Rosen, Sarah Bernauer, Spyros Rennt, Sunny Pfalzer, Thomias Ludovic Radin, Tra My Nguyen, Victor Payares, Yasmin Bassir, Zuzanna Czebatul.

Location view, level 5 at Kühlhaus

OPENING:

Happening on Tuesday September 13, one day before the official Berlin Art Week opening, THE FAIREST’s event will bend rules and challenge the (vernissage) status quo in both content and format. Level 4 and 5 of Kühlhaus will reveal the art fair group exhibition with 60+ artists.

PUBLIC OPENING: SEP 13, 5 - 11 pm
FAIR: SEP 14/15/16/17/18, 12 - 6 pm

REFUGE : GAY BARS SAVED MY LIFE
September 8th
5-6PM

WITH ERIC D. CLARK

On the occasion, of the release of Eleonora Meoni and Marta Orlando's GAY BARS SAVED MY LIFE limited edition hoodies, REIF takes the motto for its first show at REFUGE Worlwide Radio with the iconic Eric D. Clark.

Eric D. Clark

Before ‘vinyl only’ became a distinction, before using a Roland 303 bassline ‘incorrectly’ was da s–t!, even before most of today’s clubbers were yet to be born; Eric D. Clark was there in full effect. In parallel to the track From Disco to Disco traveling the world, Eric has pieced together a music legacy from classical to house, with the click of a mouse, soon spanning four decades. You never know what you will get when Eric is at the helm, his sets span multiple genres incorporating his unique live vocal style plus on occasion live keyboards over the tracks.”

Photography: Michael Mann

Eleonora Meoni, Marta Orlando

GAY BARS SAVED MY LIFE

Project for a costumed polysexual hoodie. 2022

" GBSML it´s a sentence, a statement, a bunch of words, urban haiku, visual poetry embroidered in red cotton on black plain hoodies.

According to the increase of spreading of STD (sexual transmission diseases ) among people of all genders and all sexual preferences, we thought to customize an item that broadly is belonging to the cis-male sphere, with an ironic yet deep sentence addressed to women and queer youth. "

Available for orders via raum@reif.life
Part of the sales will revert to Schwulen Beratung Berlin.

Marta Orlando

Marta Orlando (*1980 in Caserta, IT) is a visual artist based in Berlin.

Through her work Orlando builds shapes reflecting upon the processes undergone from significances in contemporary culture.

She presented her works in venues such as Husslehof, DE (2015), Museo MACRO, IY (2014), as well as within the project Biennalist, that took place concurrently to the 53. Venice Biennial.

She contributed to previous events of the collective Pane Per Poveri, in the context of which her works were shown in the Victoria Square Project, GR (2018), Supportico Lopez, DE (2018) and the Marinoni Theater in Venice, IT (2015).

Eleonora Meoni

Born in 1978 in Florence. The absence of curriculum vitae is Miss Meoni’s artist’s statement.

Photography: Marcelo Alcaide

Poster Edition: Alexandre Diop, 2020, The Indo-European Mithos 4

26/08/22
22:00
PANORAMA BAR

NKISI
CRYSTALLMESS
CHRIS KORDA live
SADFORNOREASON
ONIO

Via Berghain

The US activist Chris Korda is one of the most interesting personalities of the global techno scene. As a speaker for the Church of Euthanasia, an officially recognised religious community, she has been criticising overpopulation and the impending environmental collapse since the early 90s, calling for abortion, cannibalism and bestiality and creating absurd slogans such as "Safe The Planet, Kill Yourself" - which was also the name of one of her first major hits. As a gigolo act, Korda, who defines herself as a transgendered person, performed around the electroclash hype for a few years before taking a fifteen-year break, during which time she wrote software programmes for 3D printers. Korda has now been musically active again for three years, with two electronic albums on Perlon and two piano albums on Mental Groove testifying to her immense talent. Her music is in complex polymeters, meaning that many different, odd time signatures are used simultaneously. In combination with the original use of the vocoder, this results in an otherworldly, musical beauty with a radical message: The (Wo)Man Of The Future. Tonight Korda plays live at Panorama Bar as part of the REIF night, with CRYSTALLMESS, Nkisi, ONIO and SADFORNOREASON as DJs.

Steev Lemercier - BAREFOOT

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Shedding your narrow shoes, spreading your toes and go barefoot is good for your body, mind, soul & last but not least; for the earth.

 BAREFOOT is the first single of Steev Lemercier’s upcoming LP release DEVA - out via REIF on 24/09  .

“ And Barefoot we came,
Testing the thickness of our soles/souls,
Loving the pain of each sharp stones,
Harden skin, stronger within! ”   

Steev Lemercier is a Swiss-French-Sicilian multimedia artist moving between performance art, music productions and deejay-ing. His subjects deal with the human conditions; the most basic emotions, sexuality, gender identity, addressing sensibilities, rage & fantasies in the contemporary political landscapes.

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02 / João Pimenta Gomes - Doppelgänger with Carminho and Harry Partsch

Excerpt of Poly-Free Eurorack modular synthesizer, Western Electric 15A Replica, power amplifier MAAT Museum, Lisbon 2022

“I started recording Doppelgänger (with Carminho and Harry Partch) in November 2019 at the Wyndham Hotel in New York during the first days of Carminho’s tour. The vocals and final take were recorded in the hotel room on 1–4 November.
Every sound was created by Carminho singing the Harry Partch scale note by note using different “articulations” (aaaahs, taaaaas, eeeehs, etc.). I broke all of the notes down individually and it left me with a kit of one-shots that I used for this piece.
For the recording, I connected the modular synthesiser directly to the Portastudio and created the master in mono. It was important to do only a few takes, as at the time I wanted to capture the energy and spirit of recordings from the 50s and 60s, which I always imagined came from the fact that musicians then only had the chance to do one or two takes.

I was studying the work of the producer Joe Meek and I was really inspired by the idea of the recording studio as an instrument. My Eurorack setup explored this relationship between re-amping ideas, axis and off-axis recording, and how to translate and apply these techniques through the synthesiser, exploring volume as the starting point to modulate the timbre of the sounds and my spatial perception of stereo in terms of proximity and distance. I think recording music quickly is what most enhances it, what really brings it alive. I made some basic musical scores, something I could memorise after a few rehearsals, to use as a guide. The idea of drone music doesn’t really interest me. What I look for is an evasive sound – something wild that’s hard to tame. Before these recordings, I had rarely done a take where I felt I had influenced the sound rather than just satisfying a preconceived idea about structure or energy.

It was also important to follow this constant flow of energy from start to finish, as the modulations move from within the music outwards; to try to ignore my thoughts, and to let the body respond to the sound with the aim of capturing that moment. I didn’t do an overdub and the mixing took place in the days after the recording.

My relationship with the synthesiser is chiefly about sound processing rather than creation. I feel it’s the natural extension of my work as a music producer, something I explore when I record a band in a particular space, as that space between the musicians mutates and is transformed by the collision and accumulation of sound waves in a room. It is the process of sound in its entirety and not as a relationship between the execution and the result. I’ve always thought it was really important that everything – instruments, people, speakers, signal path, atmosphere, microphones, and tape recorder – should have the same importance and that managing these elements in a song should be a dynamic process”.

João Pimenta Gomes (Lisbon, 1989) is a visual artist and musician that lives and works in Lisbon. In his artistic practice, he addresses references mostly related to music and explores the relationships between space and body through by manipulating modular synthesisers, images and objects, enabling encounters between the analogue and the digital, the sensory and the conceptual. His most notable exhibitions include Clouds (Kunstraum Botschaft, Berlin, 2021), Trabalho de Inverno (Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, 2021), as member of the group Matéria Simples, with whom he also held A Ilha de Calipso (Appleton Garagem, Lisbon, 2020), and Micro Ressonâncias (Appleton Box, Lisbon, 2020).

02 - REIF
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Poster Edition: Richie Culver

10/06/22
22:00
PANORAMA BAR

NO BRA live
TAYHANA
EMMA DJ
BABYNYMPH live
Cali Rose b2b CRSSWRRDS
ONIO

Via Resident Advisor

REIF is a Berlin party series, a record label and a loose association of international artists from different generations who work on topics such as queer identity and various forms of expression of thought and togetherness. Their first compilation '01', which was released last December, brought together such diverse acts as Wolfgang Tillmans, Cali Rose, rRoxymore and Jeff Mills. This Friday they are releasing the successor '02' with 26 new tracks by CRYSTALLMESS, CEM, Ron Trent and Emma DJ, BABYNYMPH and No Bra, who are also playing at the REIF premiere in the Panorama Bar - the latter two are playing live as well a DJ set. NYC-based artist Susanne Oberbeck aka No Bra is an icon of queer British underground, She always performs her subversively poetic post-punk electro tracks without a top. TAYHANA is an Argentinian DJ and producer who clashes Latin American music such as reggaeton and cumbia with rough electronic dance tracks in her sets. Also exciting: a B2B from the REIF artists Cali Rose and CRSSSWRRDS.

02 / Kübra Uzun, Çiçek Çocuk - 02127777272

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02127777272 is the reimagining of 02167777272 from ÇÇ001. Where we hear Kübra Uzun’s WhatsApp audio messages about queer life in Istanbul and their support on Çiçek Çocuk’s mental health issues for the time period.

´Began this track during the elections of Mayor of Istanbul, hoping for a better future for our mentality, our freedom, unfortunately nothing has changed, we're still not free’ - Çiçek Çocuk

Songwriter(s): Kübra Uzun, Çiçek Çocuk Producer: Çiçek Çocuk
Mix: Can Kuman
Mastering: Barış Ergün

Director(s): Alper Yıldırım & İpek Çınar DOP: İlkin Eskipehlivan
Producer(s): Çiçek Çocuk, Alper Yıldırım & İpek Çınar Styling: Antre Sex Make-Up: Tusidi
Special thanks to Pera Museum, Hypercortex UK, Bengisu Öten, Kübra Sarıkaya, Yasemin Köker and Jilet Sebahat

Çiçek Çocuk

Çiçek Çocuk is a Istanbul based producer, songwriter, performance artist and DJ. Their first LP record ÇÇ001 is a hyper-electronic theatrical pop experiment, lyrically questioning the enquiries of modern queer youth in Istanbul. They’ve also produced tracks and remixes for artists such as Kübra Uzun, Ceytengri, Elz and the Cult, Debonair Detsuki. They have previously performed on Pera Museum, a queer performance series based in Barcelona ‘Uñas y dientes’, Who’s in a Bunker? by Hood Base and Red Bull Music festivals and such.

Kübra Uzun

Istanbul-based singer, songwriter and DJ, Kübra Uzun is a queer activist, working as in Turkey and also on international basis of various platforms.

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CRYSTALLMESS - Dreaming at my doorstep
No Bra - The Cult of Hierarchy
BABYNYMPH - Trauma Pop Pt. II ft. Diana Starshine
João Pimenta Gomes - Doppelgänger (with Carminho and Harry Partch)
La Chatte - Idole
Kübra Uzun, Çiçek Çocuk - 02127777272
Fuck U Pay Us - Board Up
Casual Melancholia - Spring
Bruno Mendonca ft. Gerzender - Don’t Cry for Me Brasilia
Jtamul - Hold
Eleonora Meoni, Ninon Liotet, Oliver Simon, Steev Lemercier - HOCA
Grillo - Voz
Sing Libra - Fern Flower
Richie Culver - Create a Lifestyle around your problems
LABOUR - Kewin’s dance (4_4 Remix)
Emma DJ - Ill Rooster
Caroline Letho, SYM - Solução Acid
Yesh ft. Maria - Holy Ghost
Exotourisme - Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Julien Perez - Sinking Backstage
Photonz, Shcuro - Free Block
Paid to Practice - Eric D. Clark, Eleni Polou-Smith - Human Beings being Human
Ron Trent / BTS - Time
Carminho - Meu Amor Marinheiro (live at Namouche Studios 2022)
Isabel Lewis - Deep Feelings
Parzubanil - 909 Love Story
CEM - Against the looking glass ft. Kewin Bo

AVAILABLE ON
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Cover Artwork: Franco Mazzucchelli, Bieca Decorazione, 2004, PVC, air, wood frame, 60 × 60 × 15 cm, Photo by Trevor Lloyd, Courtesy of the Artist and ChertLüdde.

rRoxymore, Josh Johnson
DE CENTERED [rework]

Sonic Catharsis (Sound as Political Manner)
Reif for Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève’s 5th Floor

Sonic Catharsis’ third edition is an encounter by producer rRoxymore and choreographer Josh Johnson.

DE-Centered by rRoxymore embodies resistance by rejecting a fundamental element of dance music: the kick drum. Giddy organ arpeggios tease a euphoric build-up that would normally cry out for a kick, but instead disperses the rhythms amongst searching aurora-like tones and swathes of low-end: ultimately denying us something we have come to crave, inviting a more tranquil path to ecstasy. The sound rework asks us to transcend and loop inwards through choreography featuring performer Josh Johnson. Johnson embodies the notion of forever blowing bubbles through the pedestrian act of cutting one’s hair, drawing parallels, and further complicating the looping quality of the composition. As the lyrics vanish, the track progresses; we are reminded of the universal struggle constantly trying to get back to one’s bliss. Hair is cut only to grow back, and to be cut again. Life cycles and common situations with individual emotional processes are made visible as the eyes take an exaggerated quality, a roundness as an acknowledgment of the extraterrestrial within the mundane, connecting the visual to the audio, an oscillating intervention and a splitting of reality.

rROXYMORE

rROXYMORE (b. Paris, France) is a music producer / Sound Artist / Dj who lives between Berlin and Mexico City. The musical lexicon of rRoxymore develops with frequency and pace. While her sound may radically evolve, her principles as an artist remain rooted in experimentation, community, and a committed social consciousness. This integral approach is shot through every aspect of her work: from the bands and DJ booths of her youth to her longstanding residency with the progressively influential Berlin collective Room 4 Resistance, to projects in tandem with some of the most provocative artists from the wider sphere of alternative and queer culture. rRoxymore’s freewheeling DJ sets have taken her to some of the world’s best-respected clubs, including Berghain, Concrete, De School, Fabric and MOMA’s PS1 series, as well as electronic and experimental music festivals like Unsound, Mira, Nuits Sonores, Dimensions, Mutek and Freerotation. rRoxymore’s raw performances allow dancers to connect with her music in a truly physical, soulful sense. Her most recent accolades include her 2019 debut album, Face to Phase, her premiere live performances for festivals Atonal (Berlin) and Festival Musica (Strasbourg), commissioned projects in development for 2021 include collaborations with Austrian choreographers Ian Kaler and Swedens’ Stina Nyberg and original productions curated by SOS MUSIC, and Tresor’s 30th anniversary compilation.

JOSH JOHNSON

JOSH JOHNSON (b. Mission Hills, California) currently lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Johnson studied dance at the Robinson Project of Performing Arts, under the guidance of Eartha Robinson and Otis Sallid, and later attended The Ailey School, Ailey II and The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Johnson subsequently moved to Frankfurt, Germany, to become a member of The Forsythe Company from 2010 to 2015. Since 2013, he is the co-founder and co-artistic director of SAD Gmbh, which has created performances, DJ sets, video works, and installations throughout Europe, the United States and Indonesia. His commercial credits include collaborations with Beyonce, Usher, Harlem World, Brandy, Duracel, and Microsoft. His choreography credits include working for brands such as Louis Vuitton, Burberry and Balenciaga. Johnson has performed with artists Anne Imhof, Kandis Williams, Wu Tsang, and more recently, collaborated with Julia Stoschek Collection (2020). Among recent projects are: Untitled Duet, A storm called Progress- Boychild, Total Freedom, Josh Johnson - Gropius Bau, Berlin, Asmara Maroof, Patrick Belega, Josh Johnson - EMPAC - NY 2018.

De-Centered is a co-production by REIF and Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève for 5e.centre.ch with the support of Nike Berlin.

rRoxymore, Josh Johnson - DE CENTERED [Rework]
Original Sound Compositio by rRoxymore - DE-Centered (Reif, 2020)
Directed by Josh Johnson & Marcelo Alcaide
Choreographed and Performed by Josh Johnson
Editing and Sound Rework by Pedro Antunes

Thanks to Andrea Bellini, Antonio Onio, Daniel Baumann, Jan Voriseck, Kuensthalle Zuerich, Lara Damaso, Max Wuechner, Richard Kennedy and Nike Berlin.

01 Listening Session on the occasion of Isabel Lewis and Dirk Bell's INTIM/E - Galerie Wedding with:

Richard Kennedy
ULR ft. Ansgar Wilken
Cali Rose
DJ Saliva

Full show on dublab
January 31st - 9PM CET

GLOBAL WARMING RECORDS

Franziska Lantz is a swiss artist/musician based in London. She merges visual and audio work in ritualistic installations and uncompromising performances.

She mainly works with found and weatherbeaten materials that she assembles into arcane, cryptic sculptures.

Lantz runs Global Warming Records, an experimental electronic music label where she releases her deep and heavy lowdown noise and distorted techno music.

Since 2008 she has been producing DriftShift, a weekly radio show on Londons ResonanceFm, from where she is regularly broadcasting her electronic music experiments into space.

WILD DAUGHTER

Wild Daughter was conceived by James Jeanette and Stuart Mckenzie over a shared love of music.

TABLOID PRESS

TABLOID press is an experimental publishing platform founded in Berlin, 2014 by two poets. The poets are Nat Marcus & Zoe Darsee.
Tabloid Press poetics are embodied disclosures, versed body politics, tall orders. They are poets just talking, playing with talking. They are environmental: conceived in Berlin in 2014 by Zoe Darsee and Nat Marcus, the project’s first publication was a gossip column on newsprint – the effect of its lyrics were intended not only for the reader in private, silent engagement, but for the whole interpersonal terrain in which the authors were growing up and about which they wrote. Wrote poems that could also bridge a “scene”, slice open a “club”. Wrote to enter a dancefloor as a poet and let the dancefloor enter the poem.

In the following years, Tabloid has released over 12 publications, its activities widening to include facilitating poetry workshops, designing books and clothing, and providing textual documentation for live performance. No matter the format or function, the press’ activities are always means of innervating the body, be it collective or individual, with a force called lyric. “To publish” is to make public, to reveal or announce – but in doing so, to publish is also always the act of formulating a public audience. Tabloid poetics are in this way sung testaments to a partnership, grounds for play and gospel house megamixes, people watching people-watching. They are lateral, acts of love, never not looped feedback, never not meant for our family and the reader we’ll never meet.

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Tabloid Press – Orchid
Wolfgang Tillmans – Certain Sensitivity
(Live with FRAGILE at BOFFO 2018)
Sene – Junq Sonorum

Jeff Mills – Hatsumi
Cali Rose – Divinus
Karl Holmqvist – Call Your Girlfriend
Asmara – Soul Dramatique
fabaitos – B2UFranziska Lantz – Meshe [Global Warming Records]
BOTO – Manco
Wild Daughter – Leckerman
Richard Kennedy – FYEO
Juan Ramos – Iniciado
rRoxymore – DE-Centered
MadAlba – Gonna do with you

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On the occasion of Isabel Lewis and Dirk Bell's INTIM/E, REIF and Dublab presented 01 Listening Session with Richard Kennedy, ULR, Cali Rose and DJ Saliva.

ULR

Uranian Love Revolution is a new proposition by James Jeanette Main of Wild Daughter. ULR trans-mutes through music, visual art, language. This first performance is 'under construction'.
Featuring kitchen sink Avantgardist Ansgar Wilken.

CALI ROSE

Based in Berlin, Germany is one of the founding members of New World Dysorder and recently Dollhouse. Two collectives ran and founded by transwomen of color. Cali Rose creates a seductive and magical atmosphere on the dancefloor using elements of techno, darkwave, industrial, trance, acid, 90s, amongst other genres and experimental melodies.

DJ SALIVA

One of REIF's primary collaborators, they are a founding member of Porto-based queer party Arena Spa Superiora and is regularly featured on Herrensauna parties including b2bs with CEM, new resident Salome, and others. When not behind the decks in real life, he's contributed killer selections to HÖR, Illian Tape, Rinse FM, and more. A multi-talented artist, they are a painter and visual developer who curates the trademark visuals and recognisable artwork for Herrensauna. In their sets, they aim for a hybrid fusion of old school & hi-tech new school sounds, from up-tempo electro & breaks to trippy & hypnotic tribal materials.

REIF began as a celebration. Our primary goals in curating events was to craft multicultural happenings in which different expressions of thought, identity, play, and experience could intersect within intimate safe spaces. We submitted to chance and embraced uncertainty, trusting that our care and attention to each element would ensure that everyone would have their voice equally heard.

The results moved beyond our dreams– birthing collaborations, conflicts, friendships and zones, as waxed by Hakim Bey in his essay “The temporary autonomous Zone”. For a moment constraints of society seemed to be uplifted.

These happenings led to now create our homonymous sound label, thus giving life to our first release series.

For our first compilation - 01 , we invited artists that were involved with REIF in its early stages and next generation collaborators to contribute a piece of sonic art. These works take form as sonic offerings to REIF, the memories we created, and the future we work to actualize together.

We understand sound as the chosen instrument for political catharsis that our artists explore. Sound in itself encompasses a broad reflection of the times– whatever is happening or changing in the world, we “hear” it. As sound curators, it is our task to crystalize these cathartic sounds and give them new forms, preventing them from being lost or forgotten; buried or silenced.

With the abrupt disruption of society as we knew it, countercultural communities were forced to deal with our spaces for play vanishing, forcing us to imagine new spaces we could migrate - simultaneously reinforcing the need for thought expansion and a reimagined a safe space.

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Lara Dâmaso
Sirenes

«Sirenes» gathers sounds in which the experimental use of the voice is a central mode of expression, as an instrument or an enunciator of meaning. They respond to each others and coexist in an echoing space that has no linearity but many doorless rooms and corridors where they meet and cross.

LARA DÂMASO (b.1996) is an artist and performer living in Zurich. Lara's central medium is the body. She explores the expressive, therapeutic and political potential of the voice. More than an enunciation tool of the intellect, its setting in motion is closely linked to that of the body; it establishes a vibratory link that is more a matter of sensitive experience than of reason. In doing so, the artist bypasses the structures of power embodied in the disciplined use of the voice. Her work exists in the form of live performances, videos, or audio works.

Her work has been presented in various institutions, off-spaces and festivals, including les Urbaines, Masi Lugano, Zürich Moves, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Istituto Svizzero, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Kunsthalle Zürich, Theater Neumarkt, Cabaret Voltaire, Plymouth Rock, Kunsthalle Bern, Centre Pasqu'Art. In 2020 she was nominated for the Kiefer-Hablitzel Göhner Art Prize and is nominated for Plattform21 and the Swiss Performance Award 2021. As a performer she has worked with and for Monster Chetwynd, Jade Kuriki Olivo (Puppies Puppies), Tarren Johnson, Isabel Lewis, Nile Koetting, Nikima Jagudajev, Dora Garcia, Cally Spooner/Offshore, Debora Delmar corp. and Alicia Frankovich. Lara is associated artist at Theater Gessnerallee in Zurich.

MADALBA – GONNA DO WITH YOU

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In the future that is now, we are able to connect across oceans and experience, making way for an expanded form of collaboration. Through today’s Tik Tok dance culture, people can link from all corners of the world; captured here by Kira Lillie and edited by Pasquale (last name) sharing with us this almost religious practice embodied by these young Caymanians.

After meeting Janet, a Cayman Island Silver Thatch weaver and main reference for Kira during her time on the island, she had the opportunity to meet and share space and time with Mary K and Ashley, Janet’s full of life daughters. Centered in this part of the Caribbean we get to peek into the world of these young girls, dancing by themselves or with their girl-friends, sharing a common love for music and movement.

“F-a-b-u-l-o-u-s yes diamonds on my neck cause I’m fabulous. They keep hating on me, I don’t stress. I’m too good for this, I am fabulous”

Singing and dancing provides a pathway for the powerful force within the universe of these young girls colliding with global techno feminism movements, illustrated by MadAlba's (name of song). Within this virtual space we begin to carve alternative ways of relating and sharing as we intersect generations, cultures and rhythms.

« I asked them to show me what they were up to, so the “DJ” stopped the music to put on the girl's favorite song and in the middle of the street, almost perfectly synchronized, they broke out dancing - all together - proud. Goosebumps ran all over my body. The moment the song ended they covered their faces with their hands, back to their shy selfs and ran off…

We danced all together, for hours, pure silly-ness and love. »

Kira Lillie, founder of INCORP, spent almost 6 months on the Grand Cayman island curating an artist residency with a main focus on health and healing.

Kira worked closely with Janet, learning the art of Silver thatch weaving, bush Medicine and local wild fruits and vegetables.

Janet's children and their friends reminded Kira to play with life, laugh and love.

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Isabel Lewis, Jeff Mills
DRIFT

Sonic Catharsis (Sound as Political Manner)
Reif for Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève’s 5th Floor

Drift is an encounter between the sonic composition by Jeff Mills and the choreographic compositions of Isabel Lewis.

Hatsumi, composed by Mills appears on 01 - the work is inspired by Masaaki Hatsumi. Lewis’ work O.C.E.A.N.I.C.A imagines human beings swimming through a social ocean- floating and sometimes drowning but surviving. How does our physical nature conform to our intentions? The collision of these two works suggests that there is no division between our interior and exterior experiences, further proving that integrated mind and body connections are totally natural and easily observed through movement. Meditating on the quality of movement through a free-flowing tango of forms, merging and moving through, swimming and listening deep, imagining new ways to reconcile one’s artistic activity in relation to the responsibility to protect nature, specifically the ocean, a tidal wave of possibility emerges.

ISABEL LEWIS

ISABEL LEWIS (b. 1981, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Berlin. She is trained in literary criticism, dance and philosophy and her work takes on many different formats: from lecture-performances and workshops to listening sessions, parties (Bodysnatch), gardens, and what she calls “hosted occasions.” She has created works around open-source technology and dance improvisation, social dances as cultural storage systems, collaborative choreographic formats, future bodily techniques and rapping as embodied speech acts. Her live art works have been presented in contexts of contemporary art, music, dance, and theater at Kunsthalle Zürich (2020), Sharjah Biennial (2019), Roskilde Festival (2019), Berliner Festspiele-Gropius Bau (2018), Tate Modern (2017), Steirischer Herbst (2017), Dia Art Foundation (2016), Ming Contemporary Art Museum Shanghai (2016), and Tanz Im August (2015) among others.

JEFF MILLS

JEFF MILLS (b.1963, United States) is a DJ who lives between Miami and Paris. Since 1992, he has been running his own record label, Axis Records. After conquering Detroit's early Techno scene as The Wizard in the 80s, as a part of the Underground Resistance, he took up with his prime inspiration, Space and Science-Fiction. The 2000's marked a turning point, when he started to merge his music with other artforms. He has since multiplied outstanding performances at the intersection of music, contemporary art, pop culture, design and science fiction. He notably created a new soundtrack for Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", which introduced him to work on other film related projects. As a visual artist, Jeff Mills has shown numerous of his performances and exhibitions in art institutions such as CCCB (Barcelona), South Bank Center (London), Barbican Center (London), Cinémathèque Française (Paris) Paris, Centre Pompidou (Paris) and more.

Drift is a co-production by REIF, the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and TBA21–Academy for 5th floor with the support of Nike Berlin.

This ﬁlm was made during Isabel Lewis exhibition performance O.C.E.A.N.I.C.A. at Ocean Space commissioned by TBA21–Academy.

Sonic Composition ‘Hatsumi’: Jeﬀ Mills
Choreographic Composition: Isabel Lewis
Director: Marcelo Alcaide
Videographers: Matteo Stocco and Matteo Primaterra [Kinonauts]
Editor: Melanie Glueck
Styling: a. co
Styling assistant: Francesco Ceccarelli
Perfomers: Claudia Veronesi, Gabriele Valerio, Cecilia Xuetong Feng, Marta Vergani, Gaia Tinarelli, Elio Rosalba Bonaccini, Umberto Zanette, Antonio Giuseppe Bia, Eleonora Camerotto, Vittorio Messina, Laura Inzoli, Beatrice Brunetto, Chiara Cecconello, Andrea D'Arsiè, Heidee Alsdorf, Federica Bastoni, Miliana Reale Calabrese, William Nylind, Leonardo Sinopoli, Giulia Pellin Mattiocco and Danila Gambettola.

Thanks to TBA21–Academy, Ocean Space, Eleni Tsopotou, Yoko Uozumi, Richard Kennedy, Melanie Glueck, Axis Records, Nike Berlin and Andrea Bellini.

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WOLFGANG TILLMANS – CERTAIN SENSITIVITY
(LIVE WITH FRAGILE AT BOFFO 2018)

VIDEO FILMED AND DIRECTED BY WOLFGANG TILLMANS
EDITED BY MICHAEL AMSTAD
VIDEO FEATURING MICHAEL AMSTAD, ANDERS CLAUSEN AND PAUL MOELLER
MUSIC WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY TIM KNAPP & WOLFGANG TILLMANS
LYRICS AND VOCALS BY WOLFGANG TILLMANS
MODULAR SWEEPS BY KYLE COMBS
SYNTH BASS BY TIM KNAPP
GUITAR BY JUAN PABLO ECHEVERRI

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FRANZISKA LANTZ — MESHE
[GLOBAL WARMING RECORDS]

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Common garden ants on a mission, pursuing their activities with unfaltering pace amidst the battering sound offensive discharging all over them like an electrical storm.

Watch them interact as they crawl forth and back from the underground to the surface, follow invisible paths and explore new territory before returning back to their base. When crossing paths they perform intricate meet and greet rituals, exchanging information and communicating through elemental body language and touch.

In contrast to the steady rhythm of the cyclic ant movement the soundtrack is unleashing a temperamental array of cosmic forces onto the scene, an overload of turbulent energies and built up pressure, fast cutting sounds and spitting sparks are accelerating, crashing and seemingly bouncing off the hardy black armour of the unfazed ant explorers.

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Karl Holmqvist, Tabloid Press
KOTTI MANTRAS

Sonic Catharsis (Sound as Political Manner)
Reif for Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève’s 5th Floor

A b2b poetry Slam in which these two artists entangle theirs poetries and find a new shared language.

Kotti Mantras is the first commissioned work of REIF’s Sonic Catharsis residency program for Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve’s 5th floor. The inaugural instalment is a meditation on the essence of sound through an investigation of the human voice and its ability to complicate power dynamics with words. Deconstructing language through lyrical repetition, the work slips into a trance that progresses into catharsis as artist Karl Holmqvist and poet duo Tabloid Press (Nat Marcus & Zoe Darsee) crescendo into a cacophony of meaning. In the fall and swell of Berlin’s infamous Kottbusser Tor, the work opens a portal that presses gently against the throat - imagining a way to transcend the body.

TABLOID PRESS

Tabloid press is a textual platform initiated in 2014 by two poets, Nat Marcus and Zoe Darsee. TABLOID is intended to stimulate and integrate poetic environments within social communities.

press is a textual platform initiated in 2014 by two poets, Nat Marcus and Zoe Darsee. TABLOID is intended to stimulate and integrate poetic environments within social communities, “as a means of inundating our social community with a lyric and a kind of poetics that we thought is often thought to be highbrow or elitist, or overly academic.”

KARL HOLMQVIST

Karl Holmqvist is known for using a wide range of formats–poetry readings, installation, and sculpture–to bring out the primal qualities of language.He is one of a current generation of artists working with language and text as a sculptural or performative material. His aim is to spark the creative process in the viewer, seeing his art and poetry as a translation of the complexities of contemporary life. He blends poetry with pop music and his texts, composed of anecdotes as famous as they are diverse, explore the theme of communication and language.

Holmqvist’s recent one-person exhibitions include Centre d’Art Contemporaine, Geneva, Indipendenza, Rome (with Klara Liden), Kunstverein Braunschweig (with Klara Liden), Power Station, Dallas and Camden Arts Centre, London. He has participated in the Venice Biennial in 2003 and 2011, and Performa, New York in 2005, 2007 and 2013. In 2013 he received the Arthur Köpke Memory Fund Award.

Kotti Mantras is a coproduction by REIF and Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève for 5e.centre.ch
Sound, Poetry and Performance by: Karl Holmqvist, Nat Marcus & Zoe Darsee (Tabloid Press)
Director: Marcelo Alcaide Ass. Director & Edit: Pedro Antunes Sound Design: Zeno Mainardi
Camera Ass.: Robert Gruendler Thanks to: Richard Kennedy & Andrea Bellini

MANTRA 1’ Karl Holmqvist – Shit Come and Go My Way

MANTRA 2’ NM (Tabloid Press) – Ncameu

MANTRA 3’ Karl Holmqvist – Enchanté

MANTRA 4’ NM (Tabloid Press) – Gestaltung

MANTRA 5’ Karl Holmqvist – I Would

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JUAN RAMOS - INICIADO

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Juan Ramos comes out of the pandemic exploring spaces which stray outside of his normal musical language to create a new series of work which draws on inherited and chosen culture beginning with “Iniciado". The concept is underscored by the ethos of latin pop set against experimental drum programming and expressionist sound design executed to psychedelic effect.

The music video is a collaboration with 3D Artist Omer Schwartz. Using the digital space as a means to recreate ancient ritual the video centers around the cyclical nature of time as observed by late Neolithic culture. The imagery is drawn from centuries of Pagan tradition to act as a means to illustrate and reconnect our subconscious to the powerful and energy giving totems of our ancestors.

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