Ursula Scherrer

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ursula scherrer

 

upcoming

2009

October 10 - Fragmentierte Architektur, .move / Halle

October 17 - live Performance / Brooklyn

November 17 - 20 - FAMU OpenEye2009, FAMU / Prag

November 21 - Prager Manifest, Acud / Berlin

2010

January 21 - 30 - Amidst - The Lab / San Francisco

March 11 - 14 - Lichtung / Clearing, Baryschnikov Art Center / New York

April 22 - {R}ake at Issue Project Room | Brooklyn

May - Slash - Diapason | Brooklyn

May 22 & 23 - Fragmentierte Architektur | Leipzig & Berlin

May 25 - 29 - camp2010 / ZKM Karlsruhe

June 8 - 30 - A Dream Within A Dream (v. 2) - BITT Festival | Korea

July 24 - August 1 - A Dream Within A Dream (v. 2) - 2010 KEAF International Experimental Film Festival | Korea

September 8 - Stone / New York

September 14 - Issue Project Room / Brooklyn

September 24 - October 3 - Lichtrouten 2010 | Lüdenscheid

 

 

 

 

.move - new european media art

Halle (Saale), Germany

10. Oktober, 2009
22 Uhr
Riff Move Club


Fragmentierte Architektur

Video- und Sound Performance / Installation

Ursula Scherrer (USA/CH) – Video
Ludger Hennig (DE) – Software-Instrumente
Markus Markowski (DE) – Präparierte Gitarre + Live-Elektronik

Transparente Stoffbahnen hängen im Raum und bilden zahlreiche Projektionsflächen. Mit vier Videoprojektoren werden live gemischte, abstrakte Videos auf und durch die transparente Architektur projiziert, wobei die Bilder durch den Stoff hindurch wie ein Echo auf die nächste Fläche leuchten.
Der Raum ist eingetaucht in eine komplexe, vielschichtige Klangatmosphäre, die sich asymmetrisch durch den Raum bewegt. Die Klänge wenden sich den Projektionen hin, kreuzen sie und verschwinden wieder in die Dunkelheit des Raumes.
Die Konturen des dunkel angestrichenen Aufführungsortes lösen sich auf, werden immer wieder neu definiert, verändert. Licht-Architektur trifft auf Klang-Architektur – es entsteht ein in sich bewegender Raum im Raum durch vielschichtige Perzeptionsderivate.
Die visuelle Stimme entsteht mit Hilfe eines analogen Videomixers. Qualität und Rauschen dieses anachronistischen Werkzeugs sind Protagonisten inmitten der sich stetig neu zusammensetzenden Bilder.
Scherrer ist einerseits vom Linearen in der Architektur sowie dem Organischen in der Natur fasziniert. Die Bilder werden in und um den Raum selbst gesammelt und in den Raum zurückprojiziert.
Die Klangprojektionen werden durch acht akusmatisch (räumlich) angeordnete Lautsprecher realisiert. Hennig und Markowski sind durch ein Signal-Netzwerk verbunden. Die Klänge der beiden Musiker sind in musikalischem Ausdruck und Geste miteinander verschränkt.

Ursula Scherrer kreiert mit den Musikern Ludger Hennig und Markus Markowski ein Projektionslabyrinth, in welchem sich Zuschauer und Künstler gleichermaßen bewegen, verweilen und verlieren. Wo Bild und Ton ineinanderfließen, sich verschränken, inspiriert durch die gegenwärtige Arbeit des jeweilig anderen.
Alle drei Künstler befinden sich inmitten dieses Gebildes, werden selbst Teil ihrer selbst geschaffenen Umgebung.

Die Zuschauer sind aufgefordert zu sitzen, zu liegen oder sich während der Performance frei durch diese zu bewegen.

 

Supported by Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturförderung

 

 


October 17th, 9pm
The Schoolhouse Loft
330 Ellery St. #3
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Simon Berz-electronics, hacked toys (Zurich)
Ursula Scherrer-video
Bryan Eubanks-electronics
Andrew Lafkas-bass, electronics
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Corridors (Byron Westbrook)
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Tucker Dulin-trombone
Barry Weisblat-electronics, etc.

info:
www.ursulascherrer.com/
www.rasbliutto.net/bryaneubanks
www.simonberz.ch/index.html
www.byronwestbrook.com/
www.alltheseworlds.org/

 

 

 

November 17 - 20

Final presentation on Fri Nov 20 at Institute of Intermedia, Prag, 4:45pm

FAMU OpenEye2009

Space / Body / Projection

The workshop will explore ‘projection’ as related to our body and the space we project in.
How do we experience an internal space, the architecture of our body?
How do we experience the relationship of the body and the room?
By exploring our body in space we expand our idea of how a projection can be used – as related to the body and the space we project in. The workshop will culminate in a performacne/installation which will grow out of our explorations.
Ursula Scherrer’s aesthetic training began with dance, transitioned to choreography and then photography. In the medium of multichannel video performances/installations she found the possibility for synthesis of the moving body in space and imagery.

 

21. November
20 Uhr

Perforieren Persiflieren Perzipieren 5. M a n i f e s t i v a l INSTITUT FÜR PATAPHYSIK & ACUD-THEATER
laden zum 5. Mal zur langen Nacht der kurzen Auftritte ein.

ACUD-Theater (030 44 35 94 97)
Berlin
http://www.acud.de

Wort-, Bild- und KlangkünstlerInnen sämtlicher Provenienzen werden zum 5. Mal eingeladen, in aller Form zu erscheinen. Die LANGE NACHT DER KURZEN AUFTRITTE bietet jeder marginalen Bühnenkunst 1 Brett, was die Welt bedeutet, aber noch lange nicht verändert.

Dem Einfallsreichtum der Teilnehmer wird auch diesmal nur eine zeitliche Grenze von 5 Minuten gesetzt, ansonsten gibt es weder Vorgaben noch eine Jury.

Bis zum Schluss steht die Bühne auch kurzentschlossenen Manifestanten offen.

PROGRAMM:
Petra Dumpe         Das Zimmer
Eberhard Rhode     Starcktetsch und Diesel-Ürik
Spiel-O-Nauten    love and peace in silence
wildwind       primary
mizza       neues
sam oht kleinschmidt    zug um zug
matze       human beat box
Werner Hennrich/Sibille Roth     
Iduna Hegen      Maske
Manfred Gräf      PinkePinke
Lamertio (Raul Hinojosa & Schigra)   CHIKI Lebenslauf eines Hundes
Jeanette Abée        Glück 4 (1-4?)
Dr. Konstantin Ingenkamp     Richard Wagner, Die Walküre, Dritter Aufzug
Jizho Kannon     
Komet         Überwindung der Entropie in 5 Minuten
Tim Schneider     Hirnverknüpfungen
Andrzej „filet“ Fikus     Ba Lan
navigator nemo    claim of dreams
stimmenrausch
Goldschwanz       soulfuckers
Rainer Wieczorek      Kleine innere Emigration oder wider der Verwahrlosung des verantwortlichen zu diesem Aggregat
jiří tolvårige & ursula scherrer     prager manifest
panpirat     spreeblockade

licht: rico federle & uli schindele, malerei: jaroslaw broitman, graphische aphorismen: klaus rähm,
skulptur: siegfried böttcher

idee & moderation: zlmann. den genossen vom acud-theater danken wir freundschaftlich für raum und zeit, rat & tat.

diese veranstaltung wurde durch keinen staat gefördert. wir werden auch keinen fördern.

eintrittspreis: 3-10 € (nach selbstermessen)

Kontakt:INSTITUT FÜR ‘PATAPHYSIK (zettelmann@gmx.net)

 

 

January 21 - 30, 2010

The Lab

San Francisco

Amidst

a shifting immersive labyrinth 
where image, sound, language are broken into particles expanded, reassembled, refracted, relocated, regenerated.
Fleeting moments Amidst -

a multichannel video- and sound installation with live performances

by Ursula Scherrer and Flo Kaufmann
live performances with Shelley Hirsch and Fred Frith


Installation Schedule
Opening reception: Thursday, January 21, 8:30 p.m.
Exhibition runs through Saturday, January 30
Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.
FREE Admission

with live performances:

Thursday, January 21, 7:00 p.m.

Shelley Hirsch (US) - voice
Flo Kaufmann (Switzerland) - live electronics
Ursula Scherrer (Switzerland / US) - live video

Saturday, January 23, 8:00 p.m.

Shelley Hirsch (US) - voice
Fred Frith (US) - guitar
Flo Kaufmann (Switzerland) - live electronics
Ursula Scherrer (Switzerland / US) - live video


Performance admissions:
$5 - $15 sliding scale or FREE with membership

In collaboration with swissnex San Francisco, with the support of the Swiss Arts Council, Pro Helvetia

 

 

 

 

March 11-14, 2010

LIZ GERRING DANCE COMPANY
W/URSULA SCHERRER & MICHAEL J. SCHUMACHER

Lichtung /Clearing

Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th St., NYC

“a collaborative visual/sound/movement environment - 3 elements in 3 dimensions”

Liz Gerring - choreography
Ursula Scherrer - video 
Michael J. Schumacher - sound 

dancers:
Elizabeth DeMent 
Philip Montana
Tony Neidenbach 
Adele Nickel 
Matt Sweeney 
Jessica Weiss 

In this new work for 6 dancers Liz Gerring continues her longtime collaboration with artists Scherrer and Schumacher, layering her choreography with light and sound. The audience is seated within a multi-channel sound and multiple projection area where space is both marked and defined through the movement and relationship between all three mediums.

 

 

Saturdays
May 1, 8, 15 & 22
2 - 8 pm

Slash
a sound and video installation

Kato Hideki (USA/Japan) - music
Ursula Scherrer (USA/CH) – video

Special event
Monday, May 10

7 - 8 pm
Slash
a sound and video installation by Kato Hideki and Ursula Scherrer

8 pm
performance
SKIF++ | Robert Van Heumen and Jeff Carey
with Ursula Scherrer (live video)

 

Diapason
882 Third Avenue, between 32nd and 33rd Streets, 10th floor
BROOKLYN (Sunset Park)
(718) 499-5070

www.diapasongallery.org

 'Slash' is like the skin; it breathes, it gives and takes, it holds back and lets pass through, it is about the border between darkness and light, between sound and silence, between what we see and what we don’t see, between what we hear and what we don’t hear.

 The music is composed of recordings of acoustic bass, accordion, cymbals and room noise, using four pairs of stereo microphones. All the sound elements have been filtered, cut and spatialized for the eight-channel system, in order to create sharp contrast and tonal gradation between sound, noise and silence.

 Scherrer lets only narrow strips of her video projections be seen on the walls of the gallery, a drawing of the shadows of slashes that have been cut through black paper. Shapes and colors crawl up and down and across these cracks, sometimes barely visible and almost still, and sometimes dynamic and colorful. The projected image as a whole is hidden in the dark and of no importance.

 ‘Slash’ is about light within darkness, sound within silence; glimpses of something real which invites the viewers and listeners to use their imagination to fill in the gaps.

 

Kato Hideki (Kato: family name; Hideki: given) is an independent composer/bassist/multi-instrumentalist. His projects include: Death Ambient with Fred Frith & Ikue Mori; Green Zone with Otomo Yoshihide & Uemura Masahiro; and OMNI with Nakamura Toshimaru & Akiyama Tetsuzi. Kato has collaborated with Nicolas Collins, James Fei and Ursula Scherrer. He is a member of the analog synthesizer collective, Analogos at Diapason Gallery. www.katohideki.com/

The poetic quality of Ursula Scherrer’s work reminds one of moving paintings, drawing the viewer into the images, leaving the viewer with their own stories, transforming a landscape into a serene, abstract portrait of rhythm, color and light, where the images have less to do with what we see then the feeling they leave behind.
Scherrer is a Swiss video artist living in New York City. Her work has been shown in festivals, galleries and museums internationally. 
Scherrer has worked with the composers/musicians Shelley Hirsch, Michelle Nagai, Kato Hideki, Flo Kaufmann, Domenico Sciajno, Michael J. Schumacher, Monya Pletsch, among others, in the creation of video and sound installations, live performances and single-channel videos and she has collaborated with choreographer Liz Gerring.  
Together with Katherine Liberovskaya, Scherrer organizes OptoSonic Tea in New York, a series dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sounds. OptoSonic Tea on the Road has toured in Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Spain and Italy.Scherrer’s work has been shown at the New York Video Festival 2004, BAC 36th International Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn Museum of Art, at the Chelsea Art Museum, the d.u.m.b.o art festival 2005 and 2008, Experimental Intermedia, Diapason, Roulette, Issue Project Room, the LAB, San Francisco, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Dissonanze Festival in Rome, Live!iXem 2007 in Palermo, O'artoteca, Milan, 9e Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Saint-Gervais Geneve, Tesla, Berlin, Tresor, Stuttgart, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Cologne, Kunstraum im Walcheturm, Zürich, Plug-in, Basel, the Media Test Wall / MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, New Genre Festival 2008, Tulsa OK, Polli Talu Arts Center, Estonia, among others. 

SKIF++
The electronic audio-visual trio SKIF++ is a collaboration of Jeff Carey (laptop SuperCollider), Robert van Heumen (laptop LiSa) and Bas van Koolwijk (laptop Max/MSP/Jitter). Sound gets processed into video and back, ranging from sonic bursts to melodic melancholy, using joysticks and selfmade controllers to keep it all in line (most of the time). Every SKIF++ performance is improvised, but based on structures that give each set its distinct character.
This time SKIF++ will play as a duo, joined by Ursula Scherrer (live video).
www.hardhatarea.com/SKIF++

Electronic music composer Jeff Carey, based in the US and in the Netherlands, has been working with experimental, improvised and composed electronic, electro-acoustic, and acousmatic music since the early 90's. Originally from the suburbs of Washington DC, he has performed a handful of hardcore bands and has played electronic music or presented pieces and installations in the US and Europe at festivals and venues such as Boralis (NO), Gaudeamus Music Week (NL), Chelsea Museum of Art (US), Transmediale (DE), NuMusic(NO), Sonic Acts (NL), Ekko Festival (NO), Cave 12 (CH), DNK-Amsterdam (NL), Trondhiem Matchmaking (NO), MOCADC (US), The Network (BE), and Placard (UK). Having studied Audio Technology at American University (1994), and computer music composition at the Instituut voor Sonologie in the Koningklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag (2002), his work has evolved from an interest in no-inputmixer and field recordings to include a focus on non-standard synthesis, algorithmic composition and digital instrumentalism. Apart from purely acousmatic and electro-acoustic composition, he is focused on performative aspects of computer music and improvisation. He has played in the groups 87 Central, OfficeR(6), SKIF++, USA/USB, N-Ensemble, and collaborated or performed with Francis Marie Uitti, Gert-Jan Prins, Cor Fuhler, Oren Ambarchi, Tobias Delius, Jaap Blonk and the numerous members of the N-Collective to name a famous few. Recent compositions include the acousmatic pieces 'Blueshift', 'Music for Broken Flute and Stolen Computer', and 'Point Source 01' for Double Bass and computer. Carey builds custom electronic instruments for musicians (most notably, MoHa!) and teaches courses in the synthesis programming language SuperCollider 3, recently at new media/arts institutions including NoTAM, BEK, TEKS (NO), STEIM (NL), and ITP (US). He is one of many founding members of the N-Collective, a pan-European music collective, and works to promote and present N-Events in the Americas.

Robert van Heumen works with electronic means to create soundworlds. As a musician Van Heumen uses STEIM's live sampling software LiSa and real-time audio-synthesis software SuperCollider, controlled by various physical devices. His soundworlds are a mixture of digital crackles, heavy distortion, melancholic melodies, environmental sounds, voices and sounds from kitchen appliances, some of the time smashed beyond repair. Live sampled source sounds are gesturally manipulated and reworked within open ended narratives, exploring cycles of repetition beyond episodic improvisation.
Recent fixed-media works include the compositions Stranger and Fury, which are performed in multichannel and semi-improvised environments. Fury was presented at ICMC08, and Stranger premiered as a diffused work at Culturelab in Newcastle (UK) and was performed live at the Sound and Music Computing Conference in Porto in 2009. Both compositions are available on Creative Sources Recordings. In the fall of 2008 Van Heumen constructed the radioplay No Man's Land, commissioned by the CEM studio at WORM in Rotterdam, NL.
Van Heumen is performing regularly with the audio-visual trio SKIF++ (with Jeff Carey & Bas van Koolwijk), Shackle (working with electro-flutist Anne LaBerge on restriction), ABATTOIR (with cellist/vocalist Audrey Chen) and Whistle Pig Saloon (with guitarist John Ferguson deconstructing the guitar). He has shared the stage with dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit), Michel Waisvisz, Richard Barrett, Sakata Akira, Nicolas Collins, Oguz Buyukberber, Luc Houtkamp, Guy Harries, Tom Tlalim, Nicolas Field, Morten J. Olsen, Daniel Schorno, Roddy Schrock, Nate Wooley a.o.
Van Heumen is Managing Director of the STEIM foundation in Amsterdam, curator of the Local Stop concert series and member of STEIM's Artistic Committee. In a previous life mathematician, trumpet player and software programmer. He still reads L.E.J. Brouwer.
www.hardhatarea.com

 

Fragmentierte Architektur

Ludger Hennig - software instruments + objects
Markus Markowski - prepared guitar + live electronics
Ursula Scherrer - live video

Saturday, May 22
9 pm

Ludwigstrasse 129
Leipzig


Sunday, May 23
8:30 pm

Wendel
Schlesische Strasse 42
Berlin / Kreuzberg
www.nstp.de/nstp/frameset-wendel.htm

 

 

 

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