Errant Bodies

10/10/2024

We're glad to welcome Amanda Gutierrez, for hearing more about her practice, and listening and reading together -

Study Session with Amanda Gutiérrez
Thursday, October 17 / 14:00-17:00
Errant Bodies studio, Lettestrasse 7, 10437 Berlin

For this study session, Amanda Gutiérrez proposes to focus on the work of Gloria Anzaldúa through sharing her audio-video work, Borderland feedback, a video memorial for Gloria Anzaldúa (2024), created on the 20th anniversary of her passing. We’ll discuss and reflect upon Anzaldúa’s life and work, reading together certain passages of Borderlands/La Frontera (1987) as well as engaging with Gutiérrez’s research creation and related practice, including reflecting upon ways of listening to the dead. Please join us for this intimate listening and reading session.

Please send us an email to register: [email protected]

Amanda Gutiérrez (b. 1978, Mexico City) explores the experience of political listening and gender studies by bringing into focus soundwalking practices. Gutiérrez uses a range of digital media tools to investigate everyday life aural agencies and collective identities. Approaching these questions from aural perspectives continues to be of particular interest to Gutiérrez, who completed her MFA in Media and Performance Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently elaborating on the academic dimension of her work as a Ph.D. student in Arts and Humanities at Concordia University in the Arts and Humanities Doctoral program. Her experience as an artist has been shown internationally in art residencies such as FACT, Liverpool in the UK, ZKM in Germany, TAV in Taiwan, and Bolit Art Center in Spain, and her sound artwork has been exhibited internationally in venues such as The Liverpool Biennale in 2012, Harvestworks in NYC, SBC Gallery Montreal, City of Women Festival in Ljubljana, To)POT festival, ENSEMS Music Festival in Valencia 2023, among others.

28/09/2024

We're glad to host "Streams of Permeation in a Thickening Swamp", a three-day workshop from October 8th to 10th, organized and facilitated by Amanda Gutierrez, Pablo Torres Gomez and Elizabeth Gallon Droste (Pes Collective). During this time, we will share exercises to attune to the city’s hardened and silenced waters. We will reflect on the overheard relationships embedded within their errant streams and socio-political dimensions, including water access, weaponization, and solidarity.

October 8th to 10th / 5:00-8:00pm
Errant Bodies studio, Lettestrasse 7, 10437 Berlin

For more information, and to register, please visit:

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24/09/2024

We're looking forward to participating in the upcoming Miss Read art book fair in Berlin - we'll be sharing our latest publications, as well as recently reprinted titles, and enjoying sharing in the wonderful assembly of fellow publishers. Hope to see you then!

01/05/2024

Following our recent book event in Madrid, we're thrilled to share news on the release of the second volume in our Party Studies series, focusing on underground clubs, parallel structures and second cultures. With contributions from Víctor Aguado & Ramón del Buey, Don Alirio, Dairo E. Barriosnuevo-Marín, Mauro Benavidez, Nina Dragičević, Adam Kraft, Brandon LaBelle, Nayara Leite, Lucía Jalón Oyarzun, Dayang Yraola.

Continuing from vol. 1 on the topics of home gatherings and house parties, the second volume elaborates understandings of the party by considering the hidden, the invisible, and the underground as material and imaginary forces, where partying is not only festive and excessive, but manifests in forms of social and political organizing, cultural and subcultural conversation, the maintenance of safe spaces and the building of parallel structures against established institutional forms. As such, the party is underscored as the collective enactments and configurations often made in support of ontological invention and which gain traction by way of heterotopian and interstitial occupations.

Available from les presses du réel: https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11442&menu=0

11/04/2024

Please join us for this extended program taking place in Madrid - April 19 & 20, 2024, in celebration of the launch of Party Studies, vol. 2 - underground clubs, parallel structures and second cultures

Friday, April 19th / 20:00
Book presentation of the second volume of Party Studies - a series on party culture and experimental social life - with the editors Víctor Aguado, Ramón del Buey, Brandon LaBelle at the ESLA EKO, Calle Ánade, 10 y calle Algorta. Metro Oporto-Urgel - Madrid
After the liberation of an old company store, Esla Eko was born as an open, multidisciplinary and self managed space for all the neighbors in Carabanchel, in the south part of Madrid. A sociocultural, free and self managed space (E.S.L.A. = espacio sociocultural liberado autogestionado).

Saturday, April 20th / 19:00 - 22:00
Third Listening Party
at La Nave, C/ Amor Hermoso 88, Usera, 28026 Madrid

In the context of planetary thinking, it is by way of situated practices that we may better attune to the polyphony of a shared world. This includes acknowledging the diverse forms which cultures, bodies and discourse may take – to decolonize dominant methodologies that objectify the earth. To work at supporting a “world of many worlds” is to upset the lines often separating subject and object, life and death, self and other. These are questions and concerns we want to gather around, to open a space for listening across worlds.

Please join us for this free-style gathering centered around the concept of Third Listening. Taking place at the studio of Raúl Marcos and Oihana Altube in the neighborhood of Usera, in Madrid, the gathering will be facilitated by artist and writer Brandon LaBelle, with the input of María Escobar, Fátima Cué Pérez, Catalina Mahecha, África Nieto, Paco Lidón, along with Oihana Altube and Raúl Marcos. The gathering will include exploring Third Listening as a proposition for reworking knowledge practices by way of the uncommoning configurations central to a “creaturely life” – where ecologies of relations support a reorientation of what counts as human.

The evening will include the screening of a new video work The Ghost Party. Developed collaboratively by Oihana Altube, Raúl Marcos, María Escobar, Fátima Cué Pérez, Brandon LaBelle, Paco Lidón, Catalina Mahecha, and África Nieto, the work was filmed in various sites in Madrid in 2022, and aims at capturing scenes of embodied transformation. Taking guidance from the figure of the ghost, the performers construct a ritualized dance of withdrawal, to inhabit a new planetary relation.

06/04/2024

We're extremely glad to share the release of Auditory Poverty and its Discontents by Nina Dragičević - Where sounding is understood as an exhibition of activity, vitality, and power, Nina Dragičević proposes that we analyse sonic phenomena in econo-political terms. In this essay – or is it perhaps a long love poem? – she dives into the sounding-listening dynamics and reveals them as class relations in which audibility is not an event following an occurrence of sound but a point in an intersectional class structure. With audibility, or rather the lack thereof, comes auditory poverty. And where there is poverty, there is discontent. And where there is discontent, there is potential for an uprising.

Available from les presses du réel: https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11382&menu=0

18/03/2024

We're happy to share this interview with artist and long-time collaborator Riccardo Benassi. Held in 2021 during the dark days of lockdown, Riccardo speaks with friend and fellow artist Brandon LaBelle, reflecting upon his unique practice and related issues.

https://errantbodies.org/library

Photo © Andrea Rossetti

29/02/2024

We're glad to share news on the release of the new vinyl by the artist Zorka Wollny, Singing Machine. Composed and recorded in Malakow Tower, LWL-Industriemuseum Zeche Hannover in Bochum, January-March 2022, the artist works with residents and newcomers from Bochum, creating a series of haunting musical pieces that reflect upon historical and current experiences in the region. In doing so, she illuminates the collective fears and visions that relate to ecological and economic transformation processes.
Available from les presses du réel /
https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11155&menu=0

15/02/2024

Berlin-based artist Stefan Roigk will be presenting his new book de–Composed tonight at Café Babette, as part of their Info on Books series - looking forward!

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31/01/2024

We're looking forward to participating in Unbreak My Radio as part of the Vorspiel program of CTM in Berlin /// authors and editors Brandon LaBelle and Budhaditya Chattopadhyay will be reading from our publications, sharing their own works as well as others -

20/11/2023

We cordially invite you to the book launch of Towards a Micropolitical and Holistic Post-Representational Practice, A Case Study by Berit Fischer

Saturday, November 25, 2023 / 19h
at Errant Bodies studio, Cotheniusstraße 6, 10407 Berlin

Berit Fischer will share with us her research and activities in micropolitical practices, from cultures of empathy to regaining ecological futures.

Berit Fischer (PhD) is a transdisciplinary cultural practitioner. She is a curator, scholar, artist, writer, and an editor with focus on experiential and socio-ecological knowledge formation, critical spatial and transformative emancipatory practices, that are often inspired by feminist- and radical pedagogies. In 2016 she founded the Radical Empathy Lab, an ongoing nomadic socio-ecological and research laboratory for experiential knowledge formation. She is the founder and curator of the (Re-)Gaining Ecological Futures festival at the Floating University, Berlin.

"… to expand beyond representation, to conquer an intimacy with the body as a vibratile surface that detects the waves even before they arise, to learn how to surf, establish zones of familiarity within the movement itself – that is 'sailing is necessary,' because if we don't, our destiny will probably be shipwreck…" - Suely Rolnik, Anthropophagic Subjectivity

https://www.on-curating.org/book/towards-a-micropolitical-and-holistic-post-representational-practice.html

12/11/2023

MATERIAL AURALITIES
Please join us for this Listening Event with Eleni-Ira Panourgia and Samuel Perea-Díaz

Saturday, 18.11.2023 14:00-18:00
Sunday, 19.11.2023 14:00-18:00
Errant Bodies studio, Cotheniusstraße 6, 10407 Berlin

In this listening event, two sonic artworks converge, coexisting in the same auditory space. This convergence occurs through a dialogue that unfolds by overlapping temporal and spatial characteristics stemming from physical actions and material traces.

Eleni-Ira Panourgia's album 'Enacting Traces' is presented together with steel sculptures placed in space, and Samuel Perea-Díaz's piece, 'Untitled (topoanalysis),' is delivered across 8 channels using glass blocks. This presentation fosters a dialogue between the materialities of steel and glass. Within this spatial framework, Panourgia's sonic composition emerges through the continuous transformation of sculptural objects, while Perea-Díaz's sonic traces interact with different bodies as sounds are transmitted through blocks of glass.

The listening event invites the audience to inhabit the space that exists between these two durational sonic sculptures. It provides a unique opportunity to engage with the interplay of sound, materials, and space.

https://perea-diaz.es
https://eleniirapanourgia.com

05/11/2023

Please join us to celebrate the launch of de—COMPOSED, a new artist's book by Berlin-based sound artist Stefan Roigk

Saturday, November 11, 2023 / 16:00
Errant Bodies studio, Cotheniusstrasse 6, 10407 Berlin

de—COMPOSED documents the multi-faceted practice of Stefan Roigk, including acousmatic compositions, sound installations, musical graphics and text-sound compositions. Spanning the years 2005 to 2023, the book is beautifully designed by the artist, and includes 2 audio-CDs of related sound works.

STEFAN ROIGK (* 1974) studied fine art with a focus on sound art in Hannover under Professor Ulrich Eller. In his work, Roigk pursues the intermedial interweaving of sound collage, installation, musical graphics and text-sound composition. The resulting works approach sound as a field for artistic and aesthetic research, taking it as both their departure point and central medium. Roigk's artistic focus lies on the dynamic staging of context-related fragments of everyday existence, which he imbues, in the sense of visual music, with an extraordinarily developed, visually poetic formal language. In realizing these aims, Roigk uses compositional and deconstructivist techniques of collage and assemblage for the development of stage-like spatial compositions with an implicit underlying narrative sense, in which the diverse media blend together like the instruments of an orchestra. In his work, Roigk reflects on his own living and production conditions, while investigating the political potential of aurality and tracing the subjective construction of reality. Since 2010, he has worked regularly in co-operation with visual artist Daniela Fromberg on intermedial installations and compositions.

For more information, see www.stefan-roigk.com