Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

Hörbar Exchanges lV Work Unheard

Invisible and unheard labour. How can its forms like feminized care and ecosystem perpetuation be turned audible and experienceable? How do visibility and audibility operate as political categories? Those questions are in the spotlight of the evening featuring an installation, concerts, and a discussion at Hörbar

18:30 “Bottleneck” installation by the artist duo Fngr Fuia. They transform the cinema’s foyer into a self-referential acoustic instrument. The installation focuses on the often-overlooked sounds of a cinema’s infrastructure – such as water flowing through pipes and the hum of the heating system or ventilation.

19:30 "Listening Instructions": a brief silent projection by Constantin Gröhn will open the evening.

19:40 Discussion with participating artists around the topic of Unheard Labour and their works.

20:15 David Wallraf, a Hamburg-based noise artist who mostly works with modular synthesizers, manipulated field recordings and voice. Besides solo and international collaborative works at the intersections of noise and music, they wrote the PhD thesis "Noise and the Limits of Hearing – Acoustics of the Political" at HFBK Hamburg. Their main artistic concern lies in the uncanny acoustics of quotidian life, the unplanned and incalculable characteristics of noise and the ways that power makes itself audible.

21:00 Lasse-Marc Riek is a sound artist and composer specializing in acoustic ecology, bioacoustics, and field recording. In the concert version of his 'BEES' installation, Lasse-Marc attempts to make the increasing silencing of wild bees tangible through the transformation of bioacoustic field recordings within the concert space, he highlights pollination service of these insects as a fundamental, often invisible form of ecosystem labor.

A collaboration between Hörbar e.V. and the Church Service in the Working World. Funded by the German Music Council, the State Center for Political Education Hamburg and the Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg

Horwitz / Pelosi / Lambertz: Voyager Sound Archiv #1

VOYAGER SOUND ARCHIVE #1 is an acoustic memory project preserving the sounds of Kampnagel before its redevelopment. Together with artists, neighbours, and collaborators, the VOYAGER team collected sonic memories – from creaking grandstands to vibrating windows – and transformed them into a living sound archive.

Im Leuchtturm durch die Zeit

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Hamburg, today, the attic of an old house. A suitcase, a bundle of dusty letters from long ago. Letters, like rays of light from a time, in the apparent darkness of memory. From Hiddensee, Roter Sand, Hamburg, New York, Bornholm. And a suitcase full of time and stories.

Johannes Kirchberg's new program is about lighthouses, the keepers who served them, their history and stories, disasters and secrets. We travel with a lighthouse keeper into the past and from lighthouse to lighthouse.

“…my beloved heart, I stand in the lighthouse of the enchanted island. I now know how birds feel, yet I have no wings. My wings are fluttering light, but they are not enough to fly to you. That is why I send these lines from a lovelorn, lonely lighthouse keeper…”
(from a collection of letters from the island)

An evening of light, songs, love and pleasure with Johannes Kirchberg.
Light the fires so I can find you.

Artists:

Vocals & Music: Johannes Kirchberg – more…
Song lyrics: Erich Kästner, Mascha Kaléko, Tom Reichel, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ringelnatz, and others
Concept & Direction: Karl Huck (Homunkulus Puppet Theatre)
Research: Johannes Kirchberg
Artistic collaboration: Magdalena Kirchberg, Patricia Huck

Inspiring China

Selected highlights from the extensive collection of Chinese objects at MK&G, totaling over 3,000 items mediate principles of Chinese art such as modular design and the unity of script and image. The display includes ritual bronzes, imperial porcelain, carved lacquer, painting, calligraphy and woodblock prints.

Inspiring Japan

With its new presentation of the East Asia Collection, the MK&G is celebrating the unbroken inspirational power of Japanese design. Now on display for the first time are paintings from the Edo period (1615–1868), Buddhist calligraphy and colour woodblock prints from the private collection of Walter Gebhard, acquired by the museum in 2021. The exhibition unfolds over two storeys: In the first part, the pictures enter into a dialogue with ceramics, lacquerware, bamboo baskets, metalwork and sword ornaments from the existing collection.

Isemarkt

With a length of almost one kilometer, the Isemarkt is a particularly large weekly market. Around 200 exhibitors sell their goods here twice a week in picturesque surroundings and a nice atmosphere. The Isemarkt between the underground stations Hoheluftbrücke and Eppendorfer Baum is now a part of Hamburg that is hard to imagine without.