DIVERSE UNIVERSE Nordic Baltic Europe Tour 2013 is result of NORDIC BALTIC PERFORMANCE ART NETWORK, supported by Kulturkontakt Nord:

Diverse Universe Events:

18 April – Chomsky Club, Riga Latvia
19 April – Alytus, Lithuania
22-25 April – Paris, France
27 April – Brussels, Belgium
1 May – Berlin, Germany
8 May – Tallinn Art Hall
9 May – Von Krahl, Tallinn, Estonia
10 May – Tartu Artist House, Estonia
11-12 May – Pärnu, Estonia
14 May – Sorbus Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
15 May – Tampere, Finland
16-18 May – Pori, Finland
19 May – Platform, Vaasa, Finland
20-22 May Jaqobstad, Finland
23-26 May Rovaniemi, Finland
28 May – Kirkenes, Norway
30 May – Tromso, Norway
1 June – Bodo, Norway
3 June – Trondheim, Norway
5-6 June – Bergen, Norway
7-9 June – Gothenburg, Sweden
10 June – Stockholm, Sweden
12-14 June – Mariehamn, Aland
15 June – Huuto Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

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With Anonymous Boh, Taje Tross, Amber lee, Ron Whitehead, Sindy Butz, Myk Henry, Erik Hokanson, Peter Rosvik, Mathieu Sylvestre and New York performers.

Curated by NON GRATA

Also performed on December 2012 at Musée de l’Aubette, Strasbourg, France.

Video samples :

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Link : ACUD

Awake, work in progress at Funkhaus, Berlin at “Sonic Realities” on May 2012.
Music by M.Sylvestre.
Also with F.Krauke. Curated by Tavis McCoy Fuller

Awake is a work about resistance. Indeed, SUPERMOLLI is one of famous indie place in Berlin, struggling to keep alternative music support and broadcasting and cheap drinks. But they are also fighting against new property developers overrunning Berlin.
I decided to play with this idea of resistance against power of any kind, the way to Escape from the power of money and these invisible walls that human beings had slowly erected, hiding behind fake democracy, freedom plagiarism and partial laws.

I was already playing with aluminium paper on guitar strings , but I was also planning to use aluminum as a second skin on my fingers (as on the video at Sonic Realities). But for the final performance I wanted all my body covered by aluminium. Here piezzo microphones and analog effects are used.

As this uncomfortable skin of metal would protected, as it also completely limits the way to move. This is the struggle I wanted to work with. The metaphor of something obviously protecting but finally smothering. Something vowed and something jealously kept. When the body behind an armour reverts to feudal way to rule was also the place to print the power of strong brands over the weak with public torture and humiliation. Nothing has changed but the ways to control people and the violence still lurks.

Picture by Saskia Edens.

“the room” #2 at Karlruhe, Germany, at UND7 festival on March 2012.

At Café Stadler, Berlin, Friedrichshain, on November 2011.

These videos are a work integrated in “ungemütlich” concept with F.Krauke.
Also with R.Takita. Curated by Andreas Stadler.

Thanks to Théo Klissiaris for electronic engineering support.

With Frédéric Krauke and music by Mathieu Sylvestre.

More pictures by S.Schlittenhardt

…und sieben Noises. by Mathieu Sylvestre

Butcher’s Pleasure #3
Performance with Frédéric Krauke, Mathieu Sylvestre and Theodoros Klissiaris at Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin, on the 29th of May 2012.
Curated by Travis McCoy Fuller. The video of this event will be available soon.

Butcher’s Pleasure #2
Performance by Frédéric Krauke and Mahtieu Sylvestre at Pärnu Art Hall, Estonia for Tolerance Zero/Diverse Universe.
Curated by Non Grata.

Butcher
Created by Frédéric Krauke with Mathieu Sylvestre for UND7 festival in Karlruhe, Germany.
“Butcher” takes the concept of “ungemütlich”.
Concepted by F.Krauke. Music by M.Sylvestre.
Curated by :
Martin Heus und Jacob Birken (Kuratoren im Kunstraum Morgenstraße Karlsruhe)
Dr. Andrea Buddensieg (Kuratorin und Koordinatorin des Forschungsprojekts Global Art and the Museum am ZKM Karlsruhe)
Roos Gortzak (Unabhängige Kuratorin und Kunstkritikerin, bis 2012 Ausstellungs- und Projektleiterin und Kuratorin an der Kunsthalle Basel)
Schirin Kretschmann (Künstlerin, Berlin und Basel)
Prof. Dr. Laurence Arthur Rickels (Filmtheoretiker, Kunstkritiker und Psychoanalytiker. Professor für Kunst und Theorie an der AkdBK Karlsruhe)

More pictures by S.Schlittenhardt