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24.02. - 10.03. 2007 The Complaints ChoirAn angoing project by Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen
Eröffnung Freitag, 23. Februar 19:00 - 23:00
Sparwasser HQ presents as part of The Glowing Whistle Festival: The project The Complaints Choir, shown as a video installation, will be contributing to Sparwasser HQ festival The Glowing Whistle Festival, which aims to ...utilize the exhibition space as a stage.... - is a festival that looks at different artistic positions working within performance and other 'staged' productions. While the two first contributors to the festival, Ho Tzu Nyen and Köken Ergun, focused on ...extremes of disciplinary exercises in their own country... we consider The Complaints Choir, consisting of 4 videos to be screened, to be an excellent continuation of reflections upon how artists and their work contribute to democratic processes in their disciplinary societies.
The opening will take place on Friday, February 22. between
7 pm and 11 pm, THE COMPLAINTS CHOIR February 23. - March 10. In May 2005 we invited people of Birmingham to complain about anything they want and sing their complaints out together with fellow complainers. The project was open to everybody - no singing skills required. Many people sent in their complaints - about Birmingham, about other people, about world issues and most of all: about themselves. Fifteen people finally signed up to the project, who had the courage to take responsibility for their complaints. The Participants transformed the complaints into an impressive choir song during a two-week complaints workshop with the help of a local musician. The First Complaints Choir of Birmingham became a surprise success and soon after we received many requests from people who hoped for a complaints choir in their hometown as well. They expressed (almost with a certain pride) that in their particular town people are especially talented complainers: either by quantity (Belgrade), existentialism (St. Petersburg) or sophistication (Buenos Aires). So far Complaints Choirs have been organized in Birmingham, Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, Helsinki and St. Petersburg. In each place the we worked with a local musician. The complaints collected to the song can vary from small daily
irritations into global issues. Anything that truly annoys people
is useful material for the Complaints Choir. In Birmingham people
complained for example about unfriendly bus drivers, dead bananas
and slow computers. In Helsinki the most favourite topics were
ring tones of mobile phones, people who smell in public transport
and the fact that Finland always looses to Sweden in competitions.
While Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg- Complaints Song was slightly more
political from its content, St. Petersburger's emphasized deep
basic human issues like: "I complain about existential horror". The exhibition is kindly supported by FRAME, Finish Fund for Art Exchange
Open hours : Wednesday Friday 4 pm - 7 pm
Sparwasser HQ Newsletter: program below
The Glowing Whistle Festival
Eröffnung 22. Februar (Freitag) 19:00 - 23:00 The Complaints Choir (Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen
and more)
Eröffnung 17. März (Samstag) 19:00 - 23:00 Programm Performance-videos, kuratiert von Manray Hsu
Eröffnung 29. März (Donnerstag) 19:00 - 23:00 Sparwasser HQ beyond our head quarters:
Eröffnung 4. April (Mittwoch) 19:00 - 23:00 Programm Performance-videos, kuratiert von Manray Hsu
Eröffnung 14. April (Samstag) 19:00 - 23:00 SpwHQ hosting public space projekt kuratiert von Susanne Jaschko Eröffnung 9. Mai (Mittwoch) 19:00 - 23:00 Programm Performance-videos, kuratiert von Manray Hsu |
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