Why did you decide to take part in this project? What is your interest within the engagement with the „reading format“?

A reading doesn’t necessarily need to limit itself to a presentation of word semantics, but can become anything from an acoustic to a half-staged presentation. Through that on the one hand, the acoustic nature of the text can be experienced more clearly than it would be through the inner prosody of a silent reading. On the other hand the sound, rhythm, accentuation, intonation can support the word semantic of the text, as well as comment and counteract on it. The musical perspective must be tuned in to the template individually each time; to be able to access that, there is no passe-partout.

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Why did you decide to take part in this project? What is your interest within the engagement with the „reading format“?

The substantialities and formative relations of poetry, what we perceive as poetic processes, are always presented through performances and readings. Every effort and aspiration to wrap literary processes in terms like „hybrid“, „composite beings“ or other declarations, lowers this beauty.

Mathias Traxler, born 1973 in Basel, is a writer and translator, living in Berlin. His book “You’re welcome” was published in 2011, and in spring 2016 “Unterhaltungsessays” appeared (both kookbooks Publishing).

His texts regularly appear in literary reviews and anthologies, including “IDIOME. Hefte für Neue Prosa”, “randnummer” and “Moderne Poesie in der Schweiz” (Limmat, 2013).

He was awarded the “City of Münster Prize for International Poetry” in 2015, as translator of the works of Charles Bernstein (jointly with Tobias Amslinger, Norbert Lange, Léonce W. Lupette, VERSATORIUM).
In recent years he has explored numerous reading formats. Of particular importance are text-generating interpretative elements in his readings.

Why did you decide to take part in this project? What is your interest within the engagement with the „reading format“?

In my works I intertwine different narratives with historical reports, personal reminiscences and scientific facts, to develop stories spanning in between tense sobriety and tragicomic occurrences. I also work with the format of lecture performance, where I recite a text and show images. On the one hand I’m interested in the format of lecture performance because it gives a direct chance for debate with the audience, as well as I like working collaboratively.

Gernot Wieland has recently participated in Body Luggage – Migration of Gestures, Kunsthaus Graz/Festival steirischer herbst; Histoires de l’Ile des Bienheureux, Musée du chateau des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard ; „Hello, my name is…“…and…“Yes, I´m fine.“, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon; 33rd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel; _ _ f i n _ _ _ , Dobra Experimental Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro; Random Walks, Konsthall 44, Møn; the performance event Puppet Slam for the exhibition Objects Do Things, CCA – Center for Contemporary Art, Warszaw; a TED Talk about Depression in Animals for TEDxGhent, Ghent; Writing Performance, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Kreuzlingen; Therapy for Drones at Salon Nomade, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin (all in 2016); Liberty Taken, An international festival of arts in the city of Bombay, Bombay (2015); Midsummer Night Scream, De Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (2015); Grammatik, Nationalmuseum, Berlin (2015); No Bad Days, Konstmuseum Kalmar, Kalmar (2015); Wo der Ort beginnt, Neue Berliner Räume at Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin (2015); Vols et Chants, The Office, Paris (2015); The reluctant narrator, Museo Berardo, Lisbon (2015); Figures of Conjunction, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg (2014); A lecture on a lecture, CentrePasqArt, Biel/Bienne (2014); Pecha Kucha: The Bet, Kunst-Werke – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2013); Videonale.14 – Festival for Contemporary Video Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2013); HOTAVANTGARDEHOTHOT, Oslo10, Basel (2012); Nach Bonn – Eine Montage, Kunstverein Bonn (2012); An exhibition of a Study on Knowledge, Forum Stadtpark, Graz (2012); Hard for the money, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (2011); Touched, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool (2010); Eclats, CEAAC, Strasbourg (2010) and is currently preparing new works for the Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Vigeland Museum, Oslo (2017).

Cia Rinne, born in Gothenburg Sweden, is a poet based in Berlin. She writes minimal, visual and acoustic poetry in different languages, and collaborates on performances and sound installations. Her publications include the books zaroum (Helsinki 2001), notes for soloists (OEI Editör, Stockhoom 2009), both published in France with Le clou dans le fer and as UBU Editions, as well as the sound piece sounds for soloists (with Sebastian Eskildsen, 2012) and should we blind ourselves and leave thebes (H//O//F, Moss 2013). Works of hers have been shown a.o. at Signal Malmö, Lunds konsthall, Den Frie and Overgaden in Copenhagen, the Turku Biennial, the KUMU Art Museum, and at INCA Seattle. Her new book including the recent series l’usage du mot will be published by kookbooks (Berlin) in 2017.