THE MOUTHFEEL
The Mouthfeel is a nomadic concert series that presents speech in the context of experimental sound. Poetry, storytelling, lectures and radio plays with an emphasis on the performative and the sonic.
The mouth and it’s constituent parts; the tongue, the lips, throat and vocal cords create a myriad of noises. The most useful of these are the noises that signify by attaching themselves to objects, actions and concepts. This system of sonic signification (or words in other words) is complex, fragile and eminently open to ruptures. There are words that don’t make sounds, sounds that don’t form words, words that don’t make meanings and meanings that don’t make sense.
By coming together as a group of artists who use language but work variously with writing, lecture, poetry, and sound we position ourselves intentionally along this rupture and by framing these various practices within a context usually reserved for music we remake words as noises once more, because, though they exist silently on pages and screens, for those that hear, words will always have a sonic aspect.
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EDITION NO. 2
The Mouthfeel
January 18th, 2020
KM 28
Karl Marx Strasse 28, Berlin​
Antje Vowinckel
Internationally awarded radio artist Antje Vowinckel presents her work: Tuning Butterflies, an electroacoustic voice composition with dialect melodies and live text performance.
Kathi Hofer
Artist and Writer Kathi Hofer performs materials that indulge in her penchant for fables, myths and urban legends as part of her ongoing enquiry into acts of female creativity as both empowering and exploitive force.
Lucinda Dayhew Lucinda Dayhew is an artist working with concrete and ephemeral rhythmic objects. Pearls of fiction, fact, and fantasy on the topic of coconuts as both sound objects and rootless circumnavigators of the globe will roll from Dayhew's tongue.
T.Kowalski
T.Kowalski is a painter, DJ and musician who runs the experimental music label Alicjia a label specialising in experimental audiobooks, sound poetry and other voice phenomena, he presents a set of sounds from the human mouth.
Nathan Gray
Nathan Gray’s works use the voice as their medium, taking form as lecture-performances, radio-plays, narrative and rumour. For The Mouthfeel Gray presents a collection of electro-acoustic fictions.
Throat Mask
The concert serves as the launch for the new cassette release by Throat Mask. The self-titled release is a collection of interrupted utterances, roughly improvised synthesiser and randomised digital provocations that evoke the vocal tract.
EDITION NO. 1
The Mouthfeel
January 20th, 2019​
West Germany, Berlin
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Luci & Lippard
For The Mouthfeel the duo Luci Lippard (Lucinda Dayhew and Hanne Lippard) who use drums, voice, synths and songs to make noise out of poetry will perform not only as their usual duo configuration but also as solo acts hence the name Luci & Lippard.
Inger Wold Lund
Is a writer based in Berlin she writes, publishes and performs erotic fiction including - Riding so slowly it hurts, an erotic audio tour of the S41 / S42 Ringbahn. For the Mouthfeel she will perform some of her works live.
Nathan Gray
Is an artist and musician who utilises experimental sound techniques to make tangible narratives based in occasionally wild speculation. For the Mouthfeel he will perform his work Critical Flicker Frequencies, which deals with animal subjectivity.
Nicole Wojcik and Alex Lee
Is a new collaboration formed by a Polish German Linguist and Australian electronic musician and combining their respective talents. The Mouthfeel will showcase their premier performance.
ARTIST BIOS
Antje Vowinckel
Antje Vowinckel is an internationally awarded radio artist, sound artist and performer based in Berlin. She works for a variety of public radio stations. Her focus is on the musicality of spoken word, i.e. in her piece "Call me yesterday" which has been presented in sixteen countries. Compositions and performances have also been presented on international festivals and venues like Issue Project room New York, Sophiensäle Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ruhrtriennale and Eclat-Festival. In recent years she has also created musical live performances e.g. organ and objects, listen don’t speak (for voice and vinyl) and installations in public space (i.e. Bucharest). Recently she has been nominated for Phonurgia Nova Award and Deutscher Musikautorenpreis. Currently she is artist in residence in "Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia" (Bamberg).
Kathi Hofer
Kathi Hofer is an artist and writer who, as an overall theme in her practice, reflects on the idea of the ‘creative act’ as both empowering and exploitative force in relation to social and individual self-conceptions. Working in various media, she places a particular focus on acts of (a perceived or actual) female creativity, which she records, rereads, or restages in order to understand their motivations, their specific freedoms and constraints.
T. Kowalski
T. Kowalski is a DJ, painter and musician who runs the cassette label Alicja out of Warsaw, Poland.
Luci Lippard
Is a performance band formed in Berlin in spring 2014 by artists Lucinda Dayhew and Hanne Lippard. Using drums, voice, synths and songs, the duo make noise out of poetry.Luci Lippard has recently performed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Kunsthall Stavanger, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt and as part of the Liste performance program at SALTS, Basel
Inger Wold Lund
(Born in 1983 in Bergen) Lund is educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts; Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm; and Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main. She is the writer of two books in her native Norwegian published by Cappelen Damm and Flamme Forlag. A collection of her stories in English has been published by Ugly Duckling Presse. Recent exhibitions include The 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art; The 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biannual, Oslo; Wildlife Sculpture Park, Oslo and M.I/mi1glissé, Berlin. Lund is a current recipient of a work grant from The Relief Fund for Visual Artists (BKH).
Nathan Gray
(Born Perth, Australia) is an artist and experimental musician whose recent works have taken lecture-performance, live story telling and rumour as their forms and speculation itself as their subject matter. He has performed at The North Norwegian Sound Symposium, Lofoten, Taiwan National Gallery and Taiwan Contemporary Art Centre, Ian Potter Muesum, RMIT Design Hub and The Australian Federal Court, Melbourne, ZK/U, Supportico Lopez and Errant sound, Berlin and Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Austria.
Nicole Wojcik
Is a German/Polish linguist and writer now based in Berlin. Her writings touch upon themes of nostalgia, consciousness, modern social behaviour and corporate oppression amongst others. She is actively involved within art associations in Poland and has presented and performed her works in both countries.
Alex Lee
Is an Australian sound artist/musician living in Berlin. He works primarily with electronic instruments (synthesizers/field recordings/samples), albeit maintains a ‘human’ approach to recording and delivery.
He is involved in several audio projects across Germany and Australia.
Top Image: Luci Lippard by Daniele Tognozzi.
2nd Image: Antje Vowinckel
3rd Image: Inger Wold Lund by Heidi Furre
4th Image: Nathan Gray by Helen Grogan
5th Image: Kathi Hofer by Christa Holka
6th image: Alex Lee and Nicole Wojcik
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