[Leonard-Stage] sound art in berlin

[Neil Leonard]

Hello Class,

Here is a link to an amazing festival. It features work by Janet  
Cardiff/Georg Bures Miller, among others ...
It would make a good field trip.

Best, Neil


sonambiente berlin 2006

sonambiente berlin 2006
festival for hearing and seeing
June 1st to July 16th 2006

Opening: June 1st 2006, 6 p.m. at Akademie der Künste, Pariser  
Platz (opening of the exhibition and bus shuttle for further festival- 
locations)

A press conference on June 30th 2006 informs in detail about the  
festival program.

http://www.sonambiente.net

sonambiente berlin 2006 – sound art festival in june

Making the city itself a work of sound art — sonambiente berlin 2006  
- the festival for hearing and seeing is accompanying the events  
round the Football World Cup for six weeks, from June 1st to July  
16th. For the second time since 1996, the Berlin sound art festival  
offers a platform to acoustic art of all colours and stripes — visual  
art, sound art, performance, video art, media art and music. Also the  
festival looks into the increasing significance of sound in visual  
art, staging the interplay between visual artists and sound artists  
at some dozen different locations.

Highlights of the sonambiente berlin 2006 opening weekend, June 1st  
to 5th, include a site-specific sound and light installation at the  
Potsdamer Platz metro station by the Austrian artists group  
[dy’na:mo] and the performance by the freq_out orchestra with the  
Swedish artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff. Plus, the  
sonambiente_exhibition, which stands at the centre of the six-week  
festival, opens its doors to works by some 75 internationally known  
artists such as Candice Breitz, Janet Cardiff/Georg Bures Miller,  
Terry Fox, Christina Kubisch, Bernhard Leitner, Aernout Mik, Helen  
Mirra, Carsten Nicolai, Finnbogi Pétursson and Pipilotti Rist  
with Gudrun Gut.

Live performances, concerts, conversations with artists, and a film  
series round out the programme of the exhibition, which can be seen  
and heard at five central locations, for example both Akademie der  
Künste buildings, throughout the festival. First-time venues  
include the Pumpwerk in Holzmarktstraße (Radialsystem V) with  
its spectacular smokestack and the former Polish Embassy on Unter den  
Linden. Many works focus on the unusual spatial conditions at the  
different locations; they relate directly to Berlin and document the  
city's evolving structure. Alongside established artists, sonambiente  
berlin 2006 integrates a number of international art colleges and  
universities by introducing the works of their outstanding students  
and graduates at the sonambiente_laboratorium.

An additional focus of sonambiente berlin 2006 is the double pass  
between art and football. Several artists, Tilman Küntzel,  
Alfred Behrens and others, are setting up special projects round  
sound, art and football. Also the festival extends an open invitation  
to follow the World Cup live, inside the artistic framework of the  
sonambiente_public viewing sound art lounge designed by sound artist  
Kalle Laar, from June 9th to July 9th at the Haus der Berliner  
Festspiele.

Projects developed specifically for radio and the Internet are also  
part of sonambiente berlin 2006. Nicaraguan-born New Yorker Ricardo  
Miranda Zuñiga intervenes in Berlin's public space. The  
artist, who received an award at Ars Electronica Linz 2004, is  
converting a shopping cart into a mobile radio station. Belgian  
artist and filmmaker Ana Torfs, who also took part in sonambiente  
1996, contributes a net art project about Hanns Eisler's  
"Hollywood-Songbook“, created in collaboration with the Dia Art  
Foundation in New York, on the sonambiente website  
www.sonambiente.net, for example.

sonambiente berlin 2006 is presented by the Berliner Festspiele and  
the Akademie der Künste. The festival is initiated and curated  
by Georg Weckwerth (free-lance artist and curator) and Matthias  
Osterwold (Artistic Director of MaerzMusik – Festival of Contemporary  
Music in the Berlin Festivals). The festival is sponsored by the  
Capital Cultural Fund and supported by the Allianz Cultural Foundation.

sonambiente berlin 2006
festival for hearing and seeing
June 1st to July 16th 2006

Opening: June 1st 2006, 6 p.m. at Akademie der Künste, Pariser  
Platz (opening of the exhibition and bus shuttle for further festival- 
locations)

A press conference on June 30th 2006 informs in detail about the  
festival program.

More information, images and press accreditations are available  
through Goldmann PR Berlin and at http://www.sonambiente.net

Press contact
Goldmann PR & Kulturmanagement, Birgit Söllner, Zimmerstr.  
11, 10969 Berlin
Tel +49-(0)30-259357-11, Fax +49-(0)30-259357-29
E-Mail: birgit.soellner at goldmannpr.de
Web: http://www.goldmannpr.de

For more information go to: http://www.sonambiente.net