Walden: Relay
Festival for Sound Art and Performance
At and around Künstlerhof Frohnau. Free entrance, open air.
Saturday, July 6, 2024, 2pm-12am.
Free shuttle bus from S-Bhf Frohnau to Künstlerhof and back.
Curated by SHIN Hyo Jin, Otto Oscar Hernandez Ruiz, Katja Hock, and Kaya Behkalam
About the festival
Walden is a festival for contemporary music, sound, and performance art that will take place for the fourth time on July 6, 2024, at Künstlerhof Frohnau and the surrounding forest. Under this year’s title “Relay,” Walden once again invites local and international artists to use the forest as a resonating body and stage, engaging with the complex history of this place in the former border area through performances, concerts, and installations, and reimagining it for a day.
The term “Relay” refers to the transmission and amplification of signals through an intermediary point—a process of reception and transmission, connection and renewal, similar to the passing of a baton in a relay race. Through performative, musical, and participatory contributions, Walden creates associative connections between historical heritage and pressing contemporary issues, advocating for alternative forms of narration and perception that approach the other with openness, understanding the forest as a place, metaphor and relay for interconnection and permanence, rootedness and resilience.
Program:
14:00: Otto Oscar Hernandez Ruiz
14:45: Dance Platz: Mattdol Norae (Min Sookyung)
15:00: Liaam Iman
15:30: Birgit Wölke, Bardo Henning, Ray Kaczynski
16:00: Roberta Busechian
16:45: Ray Kaczynski & The Giant at a Distance (feat. Almut Flentje & Hendrik Krüger)
17:30: Ute Waldhausen
18:00: Dance Platz: Cheok Cheok (Park Minyoung, Min Sookyung)
18:15: Posaunenchor Hohen Neuendorf
18:30: Access All Areas presents The Healing Freqs
20:00: Lukatoyboy
20:15: Ensemble ~su
21:00: Nour Sokhon
21:45: Saba Alizadeh
22:15: Letkidbe
Workshops and installations by
Miranda Markgraf, Heryun Kim, Susanne Schill, Nour Sokhon, Roberta Busechian, Antonia Smialek
Support
Walden receives partial funding from the Ingrid-Bischoff-Stiftung and Initiative Draussenstadt. Künstlerhof Frohnau is partially funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe as part of the Basisförderung for independent project spaces and initiatives.