[rohrpost] Werkleitz Festival 2016 Trans-Positionen in Halle (Saale)

[Cornelia Hänchen]

Werkleitz Festival 2016 Trans-Positionen
Exhibition • Performance • Film Programme
1–30 October 2016 in Halle (Saale), Germany
www.trans-positionen.werkleitz.de/en

The 2016 Werkleitz Festival Trans-Positionen [Trans-Positions] is taking place in conjunction with the international radio art festival Radio Revolten organized by Radio Corax.
As part of this collaboration the Werkleitz Festival will feature an interdisciplinary exploration of radio as a medium of acoustic art in its exhibition, performance and multi-part film programme. 
Trans-Positionen examines the relationship between sound and the electronic image, the political importance of radio and the medium’s current relevance.

Radio Revolten and Trans-Positionen will celebrate their opening together at on 1 October at 7 pm in the Ulrichskirche concert hall in Halle (Saale).
The Swedish organist Hampus Lindwall will launch the event with a short organ concert, followed by welcome speeches from the artistic director of Radio Revolten, 
Knut Aufermann, and Werkleitz director Daniel Herrmann, who will welcome the artists, curators and guests of both festivals. The highlight of the event is a performance 
by the Resonance Radio Orchestra from London.

The Werkleitz Festival will include an exhibition of Friedrich Jürgenson’s Audioscopic Research Archive (on loan from the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe) 
in the foyer of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the audio-visual performance Attempt No. 6 by Swedish artists Hampus Lindwall, Joakim Forsgren and Leif Elggren 
in the Moritzkirche, which was especially commissioned by curator Martin Hartung for the festival. In addition, a multi-part film programme curated by Florian Wüst will be presented at Kino Zazie.


Outline of the festival events:

Audioscopic Research Archive 
1–30 October
Foyer of the German Federal Cultural Foundation
Franckeplatz 2, 06110 Halle (Saale)

Panel Talk
2 October at 5 pm
Foyer of the German Federal Cultural Foundation
Guests: Gesa Dröge (Braunschweig, Germany) and Christian Hilpert (Braunschweig, Germany) in conversation with curator Martin Hartung

Audio-visual Performance Attempt No. 6
8 October at 9 pm CET (doors open at 8:30 pm)
Church of St. Moritz
An der Moritzkirche 8, 06108 Halle (Saale)

The performance will be broadcast live in London on the radio station Resonance FM (104.4 FM). 
[Live-Stream: http://stream.resonance.fm:8000/resonance]
The audio recording will be used to produce an LP, so that the event will live on even after the Werkleitz Festival 2016 Trans-Positionen has come to an end.

Film Programme
13 and 14 October at 7 and 9 pm
Zazie Kino & Bar
Kleine Ulrichstraße 22, 06108 Halle (Saale)

Guests: Miriam Bajtala (AT), Filipa César (PT/DE), Christoph Doering (DE), Ralf Homann (DE)