Leonie Strecker (*1995, DE)
Point of Passage (Terminal), 2024, Performance
Point of Passage (Terminal) (2024) presents a speculative scenario in which different voices make an appearance. These voices have been recorded, manipulated, scattered, synthesised and dispersed, brought together from different places and different times, connected and torn apart. The performer manipulates the electronic sound with her own voice, yet her voice is not audible to the audience. She subtly imposes control onto the sound, searching for her relationship with it, tracing connections and memories. The voices heard here all have different levels of connection and degrees of proximity to her: her mother, a teacher, an old recording of an ageing castrato, anonymous crowds, a priest, people walking by in the street. In examining her relationship with all these voices and with the types of power and influence they exert upon her, she seeks to escape their immanent structures, creating glitches and short circuits between experience and memory, reality and fiction.
ABOUT LEONIE STRECKER (DE)
Leonie Strecker is a composer and sound artist. Her work includes electronic and electro-acoustic music, compositions for soloists and ensembles, as well as performances and installations. She explores ideas around the hybridity of form, presence and absence, the connection of memory and experience, and the meaning of concrete and synthetic sound. Her works have been shown at La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Audio Art Festival, Krakow; Musikprotokoll Festival, Graz; Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf; De Singel Arts Centre, Antwerp; ZKM, Karlsruhe, among others. She lives and works between Vienna and Düsseldorf.
ARTIFICIAL OPTIMISM PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
Artificial Optimism is an exhibition about the resonances of futurism in contemporary art, which can be experienced at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning from Aug. 24th – Oct. 27th 2024. During the exhibition period, performances and concerts by the exhibiting artists will be regularly held. Performance was central to futurism and the program is inspired by the evenings and afternoons that the futurists held between 1909 and 1914, where they presented combinations of readings, sound art, happenings, etc. Participation in the performance program is free when the ticket to the exhibition has been paid.
The exhibition’s performance program has been developed under the auspices of Toaster, a collaboration between Husets Teater and Den Frie.
