The Air Is Made Of Music: TAIMOM

Name: The Air Is Made Of Music: TAIMOM
Start: 2024-10-02T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-06T23:00:00+02:00
Location: The Ballery

Schedule

Wed Oct 02 2024 at 11:00 am to Sun Oct 06 2024 at 11:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

The Ballery | Berlin, BE

Join us for a multi-sensory exhibition + release concert + live performance series.
We’ll be exploring the relationships between music and travel through art and wonder.
Come visit The Ballery, where these explorations manifest through art, installation, and live performance through music and movement.
6 artists across myriad disciplines — and a team of musicians — interpret the music of Travel Poems, a trilogy album of jazz and soundscapes that originated in the cloudforests of Costa Rica. The 3rd chapter of Travel Poems releases on Oct 6, with dance, live storytelling, and a balance of compositions with improvisations.
The artists include:
Magdalena Paz (canvas, sculpture)
Hugo Faz (performance art, nude art)
Colin Aherne (photography, music)
Carolina Boettner (transdisciplinary including ecology and smell)
Eric Pan (piano, photos, words)
Camille Jackson (dance)
Nir Sabag (drums)
Giacomo Tagliavia (bass)
Mahzabin Haque (curation)
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We’ll be announcing the events taking place from Oct 2 (Tue) — Oct 6 (Sun) in a few days. Thu, Oct 4 will be the Vernissage and on Oct 6 the release concert + dance performance will take place.
Follow this page to be notified of additional workshops, special musical guests, and open studio events — revealed in the next few days.
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The Artists:
• Magdalena Paz (Chile)
https://magdalenapaz.com
Magdalena Paz was born in Santiago, Chile in 1990, but had a multi-cultural upbringing. She is an interdisciplinary artist and athlete. Her drawings, acrylic paintings, and sculptures are inspired by her constant displacement growing-up and her athletic practice. For her, the artist and athlete have similar callings: “the artist works to achieve a harmonious manipulation of medium through research and experimentation, as the athlete aims to achieve a harmonious manipulation of their body through training.”
Her paintings, acts of practice and game, use aesthetics as a universal language to express ideas on awareness, memory, and identity. Like sport, painting is a highly physical and mental process—she doesn’t paint on canvas larger than her own height—and she carries the virtues of both disciplines on-and-off the soccer field and to-and-from the canvas, celebrating the process as the ultimate end goal.
• Hugo Faz (Brazil)
https://hugofaz.art
Cutting-edge performance art permeates Hugo Faz’s 10 year body of work in photography and filmmaking, whether portraying the Brazilian queer art scene and its personalities, making censorship-defying artistic statements, or via the creation of expanded-body personas, through which the artist immerses themself in themes of identity, body and sexuality, human and human-machine relationship, bio/necropolitics, and crypto.
Having minted their first NFT in April 2021, Hugo Faz is the founder of Casa NUA, Brazil’s first permanent museum for decentralized art and also an incubator of developing world, non-English speaking artists to the NFT space.
• Colin Aherne (Ireland)
https://colinaherne.com
Colin Aherne is from Cork, Ireland & currently based in Berlin, Germany, working on photography projects and recording music at home.
He works on long-term projects using analogue techniques that are a mix of personal, documentary and partially staged works, with a focus on place, connection and small stories within a larger context. Most recently, Colin took part in a month-long artist residency at the Matca Space for Photography in Hanoi, Vietnam, and completed a project in Georgia called ‘three circles around the sea’ which will soon be published by Out of Place Books.
• Carolina Boettner (Argentina)
http://carolinaboettner.wixsite.com/cabo
Carolina is a transdisciplinary artist, cultural project manager, and researcher based in Berlin. Originally from Argentina, she grew up exploring public spaces with my siblings and neighbors. Her background is in audiovisual arts (film), which she studied at the University of Buenos Aires.
In 2004, Carolina moved to Germany to study at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. There, she experimented with video art under Professor Mark Leckey and felt a strong desire to move beyond the screen into three-dimensional spaces. For over 10 years, she’s been passionate about transdisciplinary work, collaboration, and dialogue — a journey that includes various experimental projects and research.
Carolina is co-founder and general director of FlussLab, an interdisciplinary residency that bridges traditional practices with innovative processes. In 2013, she also co-founded Invasión GbR, the first Argentine film festival in Berlin. Previously, she managed production at Studio Tomás Saraceno from 2005 to 2013. She holds a Meisterschüler degree from Städelschule and graduated from the Design of Image and Sound program at the University of Buenos Aires, and has also studied at the International School of Film and Television in Cuba and participated in artistic residencies across Israel, Germany, India, Argentina, and Serbia.
Her work has been exhibited in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Israel, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela, focusing on interdisciplinary collaboration and exploring new media and techniques, aiming to bridge boundaries between disciplines.
• Eric Pan
https://ericpan.org
Eric builds multi-sensory playgrounds around music.��
Mixing piano composition and performance, photography, art installation, and immersive storytelling, Eric invites audiences to engage with songs and improvisation through physical exploration.
Born in Taiwan and reared on-the-go between Taipei, Boulder, and the American Southwest, Eric Pan found his musical footing with the discovery of jazz at the University of California, Santa Cruz. These studies propelled him onto stages with Jeff Hamilton and Roy Hargrove, plus over a decade’s tenure as New York City jazz pianist and composer. Pan’s compositions and improvisations reveal a relentless pursuit of simplicity, craft, and universality.
• Camille Jackson (USA / Germany)
https://www.instagram.com/butterc.amille.up/
Camille hails from San Antonio, Texas, where she spent my entire childhood either immersed in dance classes, piano lessons, or enjoying the sun. She attended The Boston Conservatory where she received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance Performance. During her time there, she shifted from having mostly trained in classical ballet, to having equal emphasis on contemporary styles and techniques. She began to discover the concept of improvising instead of only using choreography to step inside your body — which completely changed her approach to dance.
Camille moved to Berlin in 2017 and fell into a wide range of different dance projects. She was in Siciliano Contemporary Ballet for two years working intimately on full length productions. She’s have been a core and founding member of FMKF Kollectiv, which fuses fashion, dance, sound, and video to make an array of different productions. She has also freelanced on various different projects throughout Germany, Paris, Austria, The UK, Amsterdam, Belgium, Italy, Lithuania, Hungary, and Montenegro.
• Mahzabin Haque (Bangladesh / Germany)
https://www.mahzabinhaque.com/
Mahzabin Haque is an art curator, writer, and editor with a diverse background in visual arts, engineering, and transdisciplinary practice(s). Her research interests include (but not limited to) digital cultures, socially engaged practices, convergence of art and neuroscience, and others. She has 12+ years of experience working with esteemed international artists, institutions, and scholars from around the world, and has curated, co-curated, and coordinated 60+ art exhibitions and public events primarily based in Europe and Asia. She is the founder & CEO of @allaboutcurating & @symbiosisartscitech, the one-stop & centralized platform designed for art curators.