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Adrienne Teicher

Tag: ethics of art

  • Queering Audibility

    Queering Audibility

    A collaboration with Eyk Kauly and Antkek Engel

    Dates

    11 April 2024 / 20:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21
    Deutsch / English / DGS (mit Dolmetschung)

    Queering Audibility is a collaboration between deaf performance artist Eyk Kauly and the hearing sound artists HYENAZ. Together they explore how artists can use the entirety of their physical and affective sensorium to create new works and to challenge the conditions through which audibility comes into being.

    In this open rehearsal, the audience is invited to engage with the following questions: How does embodied performance and sign language inspire the creation of soundscapes? How does sound translate – with the help of sign language interpreters – into bodily experiences? Can sounding performance and performing sound help (re)imagine the perceived binary of Deaf and hearing, or other binaries? How are those bound to hearing, being heard and what does queering mean in the context of this audibility?

    HYENAZ would like thank the Imaginando who donated VS (Visual Synthesizer) to the project. VS is an exciting tool that can create visuals from audio or midi signals. You can learn more about VS here: https://www.imaginando.pt/products/vs-visual-synthesizer

    Credits

    Concept & PerformanceHYENAZ / Eyk Kauly
    CurationAntkek Engel, iQt Berlin
    SupportFranziska Winkler, Handverlesen, Aktion Mensch, iQt, Imaginando
  • Art and Extractivism Reading Group

    Art and Extractivism Reading Group

    Dates

    23 & 30 May, 6 & 13 June, 2023Hopscotch Reading Room (Berlin)
    27 June 2022Kampnagel (Hamburg)
    25 September 2022Casa Tranzit (Cluj)
    23 September 2022Atelierele Malmaison (Bucharest)
    14 September 2021Synth Library (Prague)
    14 August 2021Kombinatas Left Festival (Lithuania)

    The reading group prioritizes collective close reading as a deliberate counterpractice to Western academic hegemony, linguistic hierarchies, and the artificial divide between institutional and non-institutional knowledge. Sessions require no long-term commitment, centering accessibility for artists and workers excluded from academic resources or time-intensive research. Non-native speakers are supported through collaborative translation and definition.

    The project interrogates how extractive dynamics—environmental (mineral/gas/water exploitation), intellectual (appropriation of ideas, sounds, labor), and aesthetic (“mining the for branding for branding)—permeate sonic and performative arts. It asks: How do hierarchical collaborations normalize extraction? Can such processes resist their own dynamics? What are the framework’s limits? How might reciprocal artist-subject-nature relations emerge?

    Methodology

    Participants select a text (chapter or excerpt) to read collectively during sessions, rejecting preparatory labor. Dialogue prioritizes utility for members’ real-world work over academic abstraction, resisting institutional pressures by centering non-academics. The group fosters engagement with critical theory outside traditional academic spaces, emphasizing lived experience over performative expertise.