TELLURIUM 2.2
Presented as part of the exhibition: Resonating Bodies – Artistic Music Instruments, which runs from 22 June to 13 October 2024 at the Kunstmuseum Heidenheim.
3D video of the musical performance by the group KALK (Hendrik Herchenbach, Torsten Pfeffer, Konrad Schreiter, Björn Werner) & Andreas Schröder.
Westwerk Leipzig, September 2022
Björn Werner – Tenor
Konrad Schreiter – Trumpet
Torsten Pfeffer – Percussion, Tellurium
Hendrik Herchenbach – Electric Bass, Synthesiser, Machines, Sound Collages, Tellurium
Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR programme, Module D – Digital Communication Formats
Tellurium 2.0
Presented at the award winners' exhibition blind date at the plan.d. gallery in Düsseldorf.
Together with Kerstin Müller-Schiel.
Sound performance at the opening, 7 October 2020.
Sound Performance
Photos: Daniel Nehring
Tellurium 1.1 as part of the stage installation I developed for the musical theatre piece erdnah, a collaboration with composer Torsten Pfeffer, with the participation of Regina and Detlef Vitzthum. Premiered at the Großpötzschau Church in September 2020.
Views of the stage installation
Corpus
Corpus is both a sculptural object and a theatre prop, consisting of various trunks and branches from dried-up or fallen trees. Held together by ropes, cloths and chains, it forms a fragile body that appears bound, chained, wounded or bandaged. It is attached to a beam between two trestles. It looks like a hunted animal or a victim.
Corpus dramatically embodies some of the core themes of the play. At a central point in the play, it is dragged from the back of the church to the steps of the altar area, tied to the raised beam and bound with cloths. The scene oscillates between the brutality of a sacrifice and the care of a wounded person.
It is the body of nature that is drawn into the human drama, in which personal and interpersonal conflicts are played out and whose traces and wounds are inscribed. Caring for their wounds is caring for one's own. It is basically one wound. Only attentive care for the wound and encountering it creates space for healing and connection. This care for and encounter with the wound is sought through the means of art, in the choice of materials, their processing and performative handling.
Material: logs and branches, ropes, hooks, fabrics, cloths
Dimensions: approx. 350 x 60 x 70 cm
Tellurium 1.0
A walk-in installation for acoustic interactions. The installation consists of a metal structure (300x300x280cm) equipped with a rectangular drum made of goatskin, various piano and gut strings, some of which are attached to the floor with natural objects such as stones, wood, metal and earth. The entire structure is connected via piezo microphones to an audio system that makes the tensions and vibrations in the material audible when interacting with the elements of the structure.
Technical support by Peter Schröder.
Music performance by Torsten Pfeffer.
