23/09/2023
Day 2 of Crossings at W***y-Brandt-Platz, Frankfurt
Candela Capitán, a choreographer, dancer, and performance artist, navigates between the realms of popular and subcultural, stage and fashion, performance and dance. Her work addresses female sexuality, voyeurism, and the intricacies of human existence, often venturing into its shadowy dimensions. In Frankfurt, Capitán will perform "The Death at The Club," accompanied by a DJ set by Slim Soledad, a Brazilian-born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist. The piece centers around a solo performer repetitively executing a choreographed movement pattern, investigating the body's resilience on the dance floor while exposing the less glamorous facets of contemporary youth individualism.
JJJJJerome Ellis is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, writer and proud stutterer. He researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, nature, sound, and time through music, literature, performance, and video. For Frankfurt, he has selected tracks from his album "The Clearing," including unreleased material, which will play through the permanently installed loudspeakers in the arcades of Oper and Schauspiel Frankfurt—typically used for broadcasting in-house live performances. The album encourages a reframing of disfluency in speech and its social impact as a realm for potential rather than pathology. Ellis, a block stutterer himself, refers to the intervals of silence in his speech as 'clearings'.
Stefanie Egedy is a composer specializing in low-frequency sound, with subwoofers as her primary instrument. For Crossings, she adapted her ongoing low-frequency piece "BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.) 8.0: END-FIRE ARRAY," which explores sub-bass, bass, and their therapeutic effects in various spatial contexts. Installed at the foot of the banking district—often associated with a neoliberal, globally engaged class in contrast to the station district on the other side—the composition will resonate throughout the area during the activation times. The work investigates interactions between human and architectural bodies and sound waves using field recordings, analog, and digital synthesis.