drawer, performer, vocal worker, costume designer, art pedagog
Touch Amplifiers #4
By Özgür Erkök Moroder & Steffi Weismann
Live Art Denmark / SORT/HVID Theatre, Cophenagen , 14-15.10.2023
Touch Amplifiers is going on with the 4th edition.
Sanding paper suits that are connected to a voice processer through contact microphones, amplifying and distorting movements of touch.
a sound and movement performance we are developing since 2017. dealing with “touch” in psychophysical context,
investigating the gap/relationship between action and meaning. a fragment from a dystopian everyday mythology.
brutal fragility.
a distorted wellness session.
circle of falling apart throughout a techno beat.
Two pre-futurist bodies perform the reinvention of ›the touch‹. They are coming from the beginning of geometry, just before the age of meaning. Their task is reconditioning everyday tactile actions. They are happening in the gap between sound and image.
special thanks to Ellen Friis, Henrik Vestergaard , Lars Vind-Andersen.
Alexey Kokhanov and Janine Eisenächer.
review about the performance serie by Cathy van Eck + videos of the performances
Photo: Georg Klein
Two pre-futurist bodies perform the reinvention of ›the touch‹. They are coming from the beginning of geometry, just before the age of meaning. Their task is reconditioning everyday tactile actions. Sanding paper suits are connected to a voice processer through contact microphones, amplifying and distorting movements of touch. They are happening in the gap between sound and image, as well as in the gap between action and meaning.
Sound/Assistance: Janine Eisenächer
Sandpaper Suits: Özgür Erkök Moroder
DEU
Zwei präfuturistische Körper performen die Wiedererfindung der Berührung. Sie befinden sich im Anfangsstadium der Geometrie, vor dem Zeitalter der Bedeutung. Ihr Aufgabe ist es, alltägliche taktile Bewegungen aufzuarbeiten. Anzüge aus grobem Sandpapier sind über Kontaktmikrofone mit einem Voice-Prozessor verbunden. Auf diese Weise werden Berührungen verstärkt und verzerrt. Sie ereignen sich sowohl in der Lücke zwischen Sound und Bild, als auch in der Lücke zwischen Aktion und Absicht.
Ton/Assistenz: Janine Eisenächer
Sandpapieranzüge: Özgür Erkök Moroder
review about the performance serie by Cathy van Eck + videos of the performances
Touch Amplifiers #2
BANK, BLANK
48 Stunden Neukölln Festival, 2018
Festival OPENING PERFORMANCE & costume installation
"Touch Amplifiers #2"
by Özgür Erkök Moroder & Steffi Weismann
Sound / Assistance: Janine Eisenächer
Friday, June 22nd at 8 pm
Artists:
A/A, Halil Altindere, Carsten Becker, Ekaterina Burlyga, Catch a Falling Knife Collective, Yvon Chabrowski & Nicolás Rupcich, Mark Clare, Merve Çanakci, Ali M. Demirel, Maurice Doherty, Mona El Gammal, Ingo Gerken, Ivana Franke, Caroline Kryzecki, Pierre-Etiene Morelle, Özgür Erkök Moroder & Steffi Weismann, Barbara Müller, Sladjan Nedeljkovic, Jakob Roepke, The Swan Collective, Pilvi Takala, Philip Topolovac & Markus Proschek, Chompunuch Vanichayanguranon & Theerawat Klangjareonchai, Ulrich Vogl and Maria Viftrup
curated by Ece Pazarbasi and Stephan Klee
Touch Amplifiers #1
premiere
Touch Amplifiers #1 (premiere)
“How can smooth skin clutch onto the world?"
Akademie der Künste
Pariser Platz 4
10117 Berlin-Mitte
22-04-2018
plugged sanding-body performance by
Steffi Weismann & Özgür Erkok Moroder (2018)
Sound / Assistance: Georg Klein
Costume design: Özgür Erkök Moroder (2017)
in honor of
Martin Rupprecht
Stage Design – Costumes – Painting
Book release, archive presentation and performance
Rupprecht was one of the most imaginative and versatile stage and costume designers of German classic and new music theatre. This Theater der Zeit publication pays tribute to the extensive stage work of the late artist. It clearly illustrates how richly varied his art is, how it breaks with conventional viewing habits and sets strong accents.
With Werner Heegewaldt, Peter W. Marx, Christoph Tannert, Achim Freyer (intro/eulogy), Steffi Weismann and Özgür Erkök Moroder (performance).
Touch Amplifiers #1 (premiere)
Two pre-futurist bodies disintegrate the elements of touch.
They are coming from the beginning of geometry, just before the age of meaning.
Their task is re-conditioning everyday tactile actions.
Two of a kind, simply geometric suits made of sanding paper are connected to voice processer through contact microphones. The suits function as touch amplifiers. The memories, images that triggered by sounds differ from the image we see. Sound and image are no more revelant. Thus the focus is changing place from the "meaning" to the "affect of the moment".
Deutsch
Zwei präfuturistische Körper performen die Renaissance der Berührung. „Kann glatte Haut die Welt begreifen?“ scheinen sie zu fragen. Sie befinden sich im Anfangstadium der Geometrie, vor dem Zeitalter der Bedeutung. Ihr Aufgabe ist es, alltägliche taktile Bewegungen aufzuarbeiten. Anzüge aus grobem Sandpapier sind über Kontaktmikrofone mit einem Voice-Prozessor verbunden. Auf diese Weise werden Berührungen verstärkt und verzerrt. Sie ereignen sich sowohl in der Lücke zwischen Sound und Bild, als auch in der Lücke zwischen Aktion und Absicht.