To hear on Sunday 7 and 14 July 2013, 2pm - 9pm:
TAGE
8.6.2011 - 7.7.2013
(2011-?)
Lifetime project
by Neele Hülcker and Elisabeth R. Hager
Curator: Knut Remond
'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' presented a particular project or undertaking at the beginning of the year 2013 (ohrenhoch 5th anniversary year): "TAGE" (DAYS), a lifetime project by Neele Hülcker and Elisabeth R. Hager.
Neele Hülcker and Elisabeth R. Hager bound themselves by contract on the 25.5.2011 to pronounce the date every day making a sound recording of this act up to their death.
The first presentation "TAGE" 8.6.2011 – 5.1.2013 took place at the ohrenhoch Sundays 6 and 13 January 2013. The spoken dates, from 2011 till the date of the presentation, were presented on a special loudspeaker installation.
As the date proclamations are naturally growing from year to year, from month to month, ohrenhoch will present the project "TAGE" by Neele Hülcker and Elisabeth R. Hager in the course of the year 2013, in July and December.
ohrenhoch proudly presents the second edition of "TAGE" 8.6.2011 – 7.7.2013, on the Sundays 7 and 14 July 2013 from 2pm to 9pm.
"TAGE will be presented by Neele Hülcker und Elisabeth R. Hager on an unusual installation!
Welcome to your Lebenszeitraum!
Thoughts to the project TAGE by Neele Hülcker & Elisabeth R. Hager
by Elisabeth R. Hager
Since a little more than two years I record the date on each day of my life.For that I start up my recording device, press the record button & speak the numbers & and month names, which give the current day its very particular form. Every single day of my life I cut about five seconds from the cake of the time I have left, which still seems to be so endlessly big, in order to execute this act. Then for a short while my future is not unwritten, for then I enter the Lebenszeitraum.
Recording the date is probably the most abstract form to keep a diary, for this diary is being filled with empty frames. Every day anew a small space is added, which can be entered by anybody being alive & around just now. The so spanned space belongs to you as it belongs to me. & I don't speak of it alone. There is a counterpart (Neele) assuring me of this space & which I am the mirror of. And yet we aren't relevant as humans & the specifics of our voices are but a variety of billions. Even if much is secretable about it: We don't play a more vital role than you.
As soon as you enter this gallery we get in contact. Welcome to your Lebenszeitraum! You may of course avoid yourself here, too. Instead of searching for yourself you may also search for the character of these voices! So do search for the emotions behind the bare figures if necessary! So weave yourself into the lives being rung off here, if you want! But don't forget yourself thereby! For after all, this is here & now! For after all, this is your life!
[Translation: Katharina Moos]
ohrenhoch Booklet:
'ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop' produces a special booklet also for the presentation of "TAGE", with an interview or talk by Knut Remond with Neele Hülcker and Elisabeth R. Hager about the "TAGE" concept.
Neele Hülcker
Born in Hamburg in 1987, lives in Berlin. Composition studies in Lübeck, Helsinki, most recently in Dresden with Manos Tsangaris and Franz Martin Olbrisch. Works in the area instrumental and electronic Music, performance, Sound Art and Music Theatre. Sociological interest and passion in the resistive, conceptual, embarrassing, banal, juicy.
Website Neele Hülcker
Elisabeth R. Hager
* 21.10.1981 in St. Johann in Tirol (Austria)?
2000 - 2004: Comparative, German & Philosophy studies in Innsbruck, Aix-En-Provence & Berlin | 2005 - 2007: Studies of Applied literary criticism at Freie Universität Berlin.
During the studies & after: activities at radio stations, as a journalist & assistant director with different theatres in Innsbruck, Marseille and Berlin & first shorter texts. Longer journeys, to Africa most of all. Since 2010 organization of the intermedial stage "Avantgarden of Eden!" taking place in irregular intervals.
In spring 2012 her debut novel KOMETEN was released by Milena Verlag. Apart of writing she works and is interested in sound art and dance. Active since 2010 as a freelancer at Deutschlandradio Kultur, radio play department.
Digitale Repräsentanz von Elisabeth R. Hager