26.07.03 - opening (Ladenlokal n.n.)
opening times 26.07.-01.08.
   
Wir-AG/Bewerbung - Julia Tieke, Elke Falat und Katja Clysters (Hildesheim/Hamburg/D)
In the office of the Wir-AG visitors can have certificates with a content of their choice issued. Which of my characteristics, which talents I always wanted to have attested? Which of my personal opinions or experiences. The Wir-AG formulates the certificate and prints it directly. The certificates take the usability of all aspects of the individual life, regarding the wish for work, to extremes. On the other hand, such certificates are a joy. Perhaps they are the »special something«, the positive remarkable in an application, the reason for being invited to a job interview.
Every evening the office of the Wir-AG will become a platform for lectures and performances on the topic of movement/work.
The Wir-AG is a group of artists from Hamburg, Hildesheim, Berlin and Frankfurt. The Wir-AG takes the »Ich-AG« for a pervert expression, which nevertheless gives a very precise picture of the actual development in the working society - the economisation of the individual.

   
26.07.03 - garage - 20:00
parent guided only!
1. jumpy germanyness
Dick El demasiado, IBW / Geert-Jan Hobijn, Staalplaat (NL)
conzert for brass orchestra and vacuum cleaners
Geographically the cumbia music is attributed to Colombia. This popular and very friendly music style has generated variations in all Latin American countries. Antropologically the cumbia has nourished itself from various sources: indigenous, African and European traditions. As far as the European tradition is concerned the German »copper-instruments/horns« (as well as the accordeon) have given the cumbia a definite colouring. We can stipulate that a certain type of cumbia has picked up German
brass band and speeded it up, giving it it's jumping character with a specific percussion and baseline.
If we would want to reverse the process, we could go back to Germany and have a brass band play a »cumbia« at half speed.
In this way we would get a trajectory:
german consistency >>>> colombia jumpiness >>>> jumpy germanyness. (or colombian consistency!)
Through the festival, a brass band is invited to be directed in this framework of musical adventure.
The method would be:
- A local experienced amateur brass band is willing and prepared to participate.
- They send Dick their repertoire, so he can choose 3 to 5 potential songs susceptible to be morphed into »cumbias«.
- One or two days before the performance there will be a couple of rehearsals.
Dick seeks a »musical position« to be able to sing in this framework.
- The sound will be mixed into the P.A. and recorded in an unusual way (sound-effects and echo, etc...).
- The band musicians will not hear this through the monitoring and will be able to carry on in their habitual frame of musicianship, undistracted by Hooly-Gully engineering.
Geert-Jan will accompany the orchestra with his own vacuum cleaner version of a brass band.
We will have to find an adequate word for this new populistic measure of Alle Menschen Werden Bruder-ness. It will be fun.

Dick Verdult / Institute for Affordable Lunacy
Known as Dick El Demasiado, has no problem in talking about himself. As he says »soy Dick El Demasiado, humilde pero exagerado«. He is part and product of the IBW (Institute for Affordable Lunacy, Eindhoven) and has founded the Centro Periferico Internacional. With this last platform they aim (14 people) exchanges with latin-american countries. They have done and do and will do activities in Calanda (Bu–uel), Argentina and Honduras.
The IBW is widely known in the high-brow-low-tech world, from Hybrid Workspace, Kassel to Kunstradio, Austria, from CCCB Barcelona to Union of Filmmakers, St Petersburg.
Dick El Demasiado specialises in cumbias lunaticas, just like other icons Padre Teresa and Subdesarollados del Norte, a genre that appeared to the surface at the First Festival of Cumbias Experiimentales in La Ceiba, in 1996, Festicumex.
> http://www.dse.nl/~ibw/
> http://www.periferico.org/dickeldemasiado

Geert-Jan Hobijn / Staalplaat Soundsystem
For over twenty years, Geert-Jan Hobijn has been guarantor for exceptional projects as artistically intransigent thinker and instigator of unusual musical experiments. With Staalplaat he has been creating a search engine, that helps both for navigating in the depths of good taste and the small islands of cultural philistines and for sailing around the mainstream.
> http://www.staalplaat.org

Kevin Blechdom (USA/D)
The banjo-laptop-electrotrash musician from San Fransisco/Berlin is normally called Kristin Erickson, founded in her time in San Fransisco a band called Blechtum from Bechdom, toured the world, played music, published records on tigerbeat6, deluxe, orthlorng musork, shimmy disc, four states fair, unbearable, dial() and phthalo. Kevin Blechdom plays two laptops, a red stripped MIDI Keyboard, a red banjo and sings songs.
> http://www.kevyb.com/contents.html