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HIDDEN SPACES
With sound and video works by Angela Marzullo A.K.A. MAKITA, Herr Herrli, Patrick Steffen, Strotter Inst. and maschin kaput
During Kunsttage Basel, Voltage is hosting the video exhibition “Hidden Spaces.” This presentation is a digital extension of that exhibition.
Since its founding in 2017, Voltage has focused on sound art as an art space. In the exhibition “Hidden Spaces,” Voltage presents video works that focus on the hidden and undiscovered. The artists transport the audience into unfamiliar worlds of images and sound. While Angela Marzullo searches for a way out as a postmodern witch in a hall of mirrors, Herr Herrli builds a soundscape collected from public spaces and tests the boundaries. Strotter Inst. generates unusual sound and rhythm structures by modifying and manipulating vinyl records. The insects found in Patrick Steffen's studio invite you to the afterparty and the last dance. The experimental band maschin kaput from Hamburg will be there as a special guest, inviting us into the art of improvisation. Open your eyes, put on your headphones, and listen.
MAKITA WITCH
Video tape, HD, loop, Geneva, 2008
Angela Marzullo A.K.A. MAKITA
In collaboration with Michael Hofer/ Audio uiuta
Angela Marzullo combines video and performance art to explore feminist issues and engage in social and political criticism. She often takes up gender roles in order to critically question them. In this video, we see MAKITA as a witch flying around on her broomstick. Through a play with mirrors, the witch is reflected on the walls and floor and multiplied numerous times. Even the viewers lose sight of her in this animated labyrinth.
Don`t Cross The Border
2020
Herr Herrli
Herr Herrli is a sound artist from Basel who works with electronic music and creates atmospheric soundscapes for exhibitions live on site. The basic elements of his beats are recorded “sound tracks” of everyday noises. Whether it's subway doors closing in Hamburg, animal sounds from the rainforest in Bolivia, or toilet noises from Belgrade, Herr Herrli combines them to create new, unknown soundscapes. His beats transport the imagination to unknown realms. The video Don't Cross The Border was created in response to the closure of the border between France and Switzerland due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Afterparty
2025
Patrick Steffen
Music: Daniel Steffen
The film Afterparty brings together dead insects that the artist found over a period of six years in his studio, a former yarn factory: various moths, bugs, wasps, and beetles. Bathed in colored light, the animals are animated in rotation, dancing to pulsating music. Insects are considered the most species-rich class of animals. The film raises various questions about the relationship between humans and animals. In the background, current ecological issues are echoed, as are references to art history and horror films. And last but not least, the ambivalent splendor of the transitory is celebrated.
MISZELLEN - LRW - "Keilhirnrinde..."
2017
Strotter Inst.
The “Strotters” fished for grease in the sewers to sell it to soap manufacturers. Just as they stood on the margins of society, Strotter Inst. now stands on the margins of art and music, working with things that others have thrown away. Live, Strotter Inst. creates dense sound and rhythm structures using modified and manipulated Lenco turntables and various cut or glued records. The music ranges from a lo-fi rumble that transforms into concrete clicks and scratches, followed by epic drones and multi-layered broken beats, only to fall back into intricate bass meditations.
japanese reis-lager
2024
maschin kaput
The experimental improvisational music of the Hamburg band maschin kaput oscillates freely between the broken, echoing rhythms of an abandoned steel mill and the barely perceptible echo that a poorly oiled shopping cart reflects off urban facades at night. Sound therapy for the aesthetically tormented soul of the modern city dweller. Drums made from found objects and scrap metal, discarded instruments that feed into homemade electronics, uncontrolled rage in the voice, and a sprawling network of synthesizers.