Programmarchiv

Seit 2006 finden in der Lettrétage ca. 120 öffentliche Literaturveranstaltungen jährlich statt – Lesungen, Workshops, Diskussionsrunden, literarische Performances und Formate dazwischen. Bekannte und unbekannte Autor*innen und Künstler*innen verschiedener Sprachen und Nationalitäten sind hier schon aufgetreten.

Seit 2013 liegt der Programmfokus u.a. auf neuen Wegen der literarischen Präsentation und Live-Produktion: Dazu zählen u.a. die internationalen bzw. transnationalen Literaturfestivals „Soundout!“, „¿Comment!“, „Berlinisi“ und „Syn_Energy“, aber auch das viel beachtete Netzwerkprojekt „CROWD“ und multimediale Projekte wie die Reihe „CON_TEXT“ oder das „Poetry Audio Lab“. Eine vollständige Liste der Lettrétage-Projekte finden Sie hier.

Als Ankerinstitution für die freie Literaturszene Berlins stellt die Lettrétage außerdem ihre Räume für Literaturveranstaltungen aller Art zur Verfügung. Zahlreiche freie Veranstalter*innen nutzen unsere Infrastruktur regelmäßig – für Literatur-Workshops, Lesereihen in verschiedenen Sprachen und Buchpräsentationen. Mehr zu den Möglichkeiten der kostenlosen Raumnutzung erfahren Sie hier.

Auf dieser Seite präsentieren wir einen nicht vollständigen Einblick in unser vergangenes Programm.


Veranstaltungen

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  • Fr
    14
    Jun
    2024

    CONVERGENCE III

    20:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, 10€

    A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Experimental Arts. With Vincent Laju X Yurika Saito, Sam Albatros, Mire aka Andreea Hriscu X Renée T. Coulombe, Days Like Television & Growthrings
    Moderation:Tom Bresemann

    © Andreea Hriscu

    CONVERGENCE is an evening of experimental, multi-sensory performances organized by Kross Collective, which explore dialogues between sound, text and visuals.

    In their third event they present Vincent Laju X Yurika Saito showing improvisations and interactions between visual (inc. performative installation) and sound (cello, Shakuhachi) forms. We will then screen two short films, in the video-poetry genre, from the queer artist and poet Sam Albatros, featuring music from Von Jeglichem Wort. After this Growthrings will enter the stage. Two extended musical sets will follow - an immersive, sono-poetic and performance installation by composers Renée T. Coulombe of Banshee Media and Andrea Hriscu of Mire, that weaves together improvisation, automatic writing, resonant ambiences, and AI prompting to probe the collaborative possibilities of artistic intelligence in real time. Whilst Days Like Television will preview material from his upcoming album- ‘This Will Have Been the Past’ (released June 5 on Bonambi Records) in an A/V performance.

    -> Tickets will also be available at the box office.

    Yurika Saito X Vincent Laju

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    Yurika Saito - Visual
    Vincent Laju - Sound

    Improvisation and interactions between visual and sound forms, between organic and transformed materials, the point of imbalance between intention and hazard, to allow the unexpected to emerge.
    Yurika Saito creates a performing installation using Japanese ink, stones, material from nature, Japanese paper and water. Vincent Laju plays Shakuhachi (raw bamboo instrument traditionally linked to the sounds of nature) but in an experimental minimalist way, as well as Cello.
    Born and raised in Tokyo, Yurika Saito encountered mountain landscape painting in Canada during her travels, and has been working in Berlin with nature and art as the theme of her work. Since moving to Berlin, she has held solo exhibitions including "BALANCE2022" "CYCLE2023" "Life is Short, Fall in Love 2024". In 2023, she participated in the Tokyo Biennale as a member of the team that researched and created works in Tokyo.
    She pursues a wide range of possibilities in painting, embroidery, herb dyeing, and performance with the theme of connecting nature and humans, and in recent years she has been working with musicians on improvisational sound drawings that visualize the instantaneous nature of sound.

    http://www.yurikasaito.de
    https://www.instagram.com/yurika_sketch

    Improviser & composer, Vincent Laju studied and graduated in France on Double bass. Since 2020 he has collaborated with artists from all disciplines in Berlin where he resides, he plays also with large ensembles such as Berlin Improvisers Orchestra and Grand8 (Marseille). His graphic and sound work series is regularly performed and exhibited in France and in Germany. He has performed in GMEM (National Center for Music Creation), for festivals and concerts in Europe and Asia.
    Multi-medium musician, he works with Cello, Shakuhachi and Double bass, as well with electroacoustic and raw organic materials (wood, horsehair, bamboo, objects), particularly interested in the morphological aspect of sounds, such as patterns, lines, spaces, strokes and erasures.

    https://www.vincentlaju.com
    https://www.instagram.com/vincentlaju

    Renée T. Coulombe

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    Renée T. Coulombe is a musician, scholar, and creative entrepreneur of considerable breadth. At once a composer of instrumental, electronic and acousmatic works, she is also an active improvising and experimental pianist and vocalist, a commercial and independent producer and publisher, a transmedia installation and performance artist, and a scholar engaged at the intersections of critical theory, music and media culture. She is currently Programme Lead for the Creative Production Masters Programme at Catalyst Institute for Creative Art and Technology, in the historic Funkhaus facility in Rummelsberg, Berlin. She is also Founder of The Willows Nest, a collaborative production platform and informal arts space in Friedrichshain, where she serves as artistic director.

    http://www.reneetcoulombe.com
    https://www.instagram.com/bansheemedia

    Mire

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    ”Mire” is the dark-ambient drone and atmospheric soundscape project of Andreea Hriscu, a visual, performance and sound Berlin based artist. With a background in architecture, she opened her first solo painting exhibition in 2016 at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Beijing, China, and her first live painting performance in 2018 in Beijing, followed by other performances in Bangkok and Berlin. Her photography and painting are mostly abstract, her sound projects consist of dark ambient soundscapes, and her painting performances are dark, emotional, and viscerally intense. They explore and embody different aspects of the psyche: the subconscious, the hidden aspects of the self and the unfelt raw emotions. Within this embodiment, she becomes fully immersed in the artistic process, blurring the boundaries between the self, the process, and the object.

    https://mirelands.bandcamp.com/
    https://andreeahriscu.wixsite.com/andreeahriscuart
    https://www.instagram.com/andreea.hriscu.art

    Days Like Television

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    Days Like Television is the solo moniker of Daniel Bryden, an experimental musician and video artist based in Berlin. Using an array of disassociated sound sources and fragmented synths, Bryden crafts immersive aural landscapes which pulsate with an underlying tension and tactility. Live shows are evocative, expansive, and moving- spanning ambience, improvised noise, music concrète, and a fractured, unhinged electronica. Bryden has presented A/V performances at ICA (London), La Vallée (Brussels), Madame Claude (Berlin), and VEKKS (Vienna). His upcoming album- ‘This Will Have Been the Past’ will be released in May on Bonambi Records.

    https://www.daysliketelevision.co.uk/

    https://days-like-television.bandcamp.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/days_like_television/

    Sam Albatros

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    Sam Albatros is an academic at King’s College London, writer, poet, translator and an internationally-acclaimed performance artist based in London, with a strong social-media presence in the Greek-speaking world. They hold an MPhil in Psychology (University of Cambridge, UK) and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (University College London, University of London and National Institute of Mental Health, US). They have presented video-art performances and visual narratives in Greece, Cyprus, UK, and Berlin. Their work has been supported by prestigious writing residencies in Berlin (Literarisches Colloquium Berlin) and Leipzig (Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, HALLE 14, Edit), and they have been the recipient of a Stavros Niarchos Foundation & Artworks Fellowship for young artists.

    https://www.art-works.gr/en/fellows/sam-albatros/
    https://queerpoets.com
    https://www.instagram.com/sam.albatros/

    Growthrings

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    Growthrings is the project of Berlin-based musician and sound artist Oleksandra Kopelyan. The main tools of her practice include voice, archive and field recordings, radio noise, synthesized and acoustic timbres. The vocal techniques range from glossolalia to authentic folk singing.

Workshops & Infoabende

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  • Do
    18
    Jul
    2019

    Dinge hineinlegen lernen: Deep Reading Workshop

    19:00 - 21:00Beitrag: 10€

    Workshop für Anfänger*innen und Fortgeschrittene mit Michael Duszat

    Deep Reading bedeutet, sich in einen Text zu versenken, ohne davon verschluckt zu werden. Und: an der glänzenden Oberfläche eines Kunstwerks nach Geheimtüren zu suchen, die sonst niemand öffnen kann. Und: Dinge in einen Text hineinzulegen und wieder herauszuholen, um darüber sprechen zu können.

    Der Workshop zeigt, wie das funktioniert. Er ermöglicht damit die intensive Beschäftigung mit Literatur und bietet Einblicke in wichtige und ereignisreiche Texte aus verschiedenen Zeiten und Gattungen. Er vermittelt die Technik des konzentrierten, aufmerksamen Lesens, schärft den Blick für literarische Mittel und stilistische Eigenarten und trainiert das Diskutieren darüber.

    Der Workshop eignet sich für alle, die gern mehr über komplexe Verflechtungen von Klang und Rhythmus und Inhalt und Form nachdenken und sprechen möchten; besonders für Leute, die selbst schreiben oder sich auf andere Art beruflich mit Texten auseinandersetzen. Das Interesse für die Beobachtungen und Denkweisen anderer ist eine Voraussetzung für ein gemeinsames Deep Reading. Ansonsten benötigt man keine speziellen Vorkenntnisse. Anfänger*innen und Fortgeschrittene sind gleichermaßen willkommen. Texte brauchen nicht vorher gelesen oder angeschafft werden.

     

    Michael Duszat ist promovierter Amerikanist, Autor und Übersetzer. Neben Deep Reading unterrichtet er Kreatives Schreiben und Deutsch als Fremdsprache.