VOICE PORTRAITS: POETRY AND FILM OF MARCUS BERGNER & MYRIAM VAN IMSCHOOT
FRIDAY, JULY 8 – 7:30 PM // ONE NIGHT ONLY with directors in person!
Spectacle Theater and Sarma join forces to present an evening that pairs screenings with live performance by Marcus Bergner (Australia) and Myriam Van Imschoot (Belgium). Vocal tangents and aberrant hosannas combine within sound poetry, experimental film and various forms of portraiture. In addition to films both digital and 16mm, Marcus Bergner and Myriam Van Imschoot will perform the sound poetry piece ‘Schloss Songs’.
This event is also the launch of ‘Family Mafia’, a voice portrait by Alessandro Bosetti of his friends Michelle Nagai, Kenta Nagai, DD Dorvillier and Sebastian Roux. This new radiophonic audio-piece is featured within the online sound poetry series Volume SP on Oral Site (oralsite.be). Surprise performance by special guest Kenta Nagai.
With thanks to Sarma/Oral Site for support, Joel Schlemowitz and Eric de Kuyper.
YODEL PORTRAIT DOREEN KUTZKE
Dir. Myriam Van Imschoot, 2015.
27 min.
In German with English subtitles.
In this portrait of Berlin based yodel queen Doreen Kutzke, yodel is a missile that can propel its charm beyond barriers, iron curtains and cultural stereotypes.
MUSICAL THREE LETTERS
Dir. Marcus Bergner 1989.
5 min.
A push and pull filmic puzzle using handwritten argot and found footage from 1930s Mexican musical.
THREAD OF VOICE
Dir. Marisa Stirpe, Frank Lovece, Michael Buckley and Marcus Bergner, 1993.
19mins.
Experimental documentary and self-portrait by the Australian sound poetry group Arf Arf.
MYRIAM VAN IMSCHOOT is the curator of Oral Site that hosts the series
Volume SP. She is a performance artist who usually engages the voice in her
work, whether installation, video or performance. She performs as a
vocalist for Alessandro Bosetti, Anne-Laure Pigache, etc. Her latest
projects engage forms of crying, waving, calling out, in tune with vocal
folklore or just by imitating the sounds of nature like in her last group
piece ‘What Nature Says’. Since 2014 she has been creating a cycle of sound
poems in a duo artist formation with Marcus Bergner.
MARCUS BERGNER is an artist living between Europe and Australia. He is a
long-term collaborator with the Australian sound poetry group Arf Arf and
recently co-ordinated the group’s online publication.
Kenta Nagai is a Japanese-born sound artist who has resided in the United States since 1990. After graduating conservatory, Nagai relocated himself to NYC and started playing his fretless guitar on the street, subway platforms, clubs, and galleries. In 2000, Nagai provided a sound score for DD Dorvillier’s solo dance performance “Handsome Execution of a Flower”. During that period, he met DD’s sister Michelle, who later became his wife. Nag has recently been working with NY choreographer Melanie Maar. He is the guitarist in composer Alessandro Bosseti’s power trio, Trophies.