An Artist Talks Forum Performance/Performing? 12.03.2011, Kunsthaus Tacheles.

The artist Anna Kaluza, fantastic saxophone player, and is a very active musician in Berlin. You can hear her play in the fijan, the Bflat  and other jazz or experimental music spaces.

She has recenty founded The Berlin Experimental Orchestra, and has a number of 25 musicians all together in the project. She shares her experience of London, where she stayed for a year and played in the London Experimental Orchestra, she likes the interaction with musicians and the improvisation part of the music production. She rarely composes in advance and likes to create live, while playing with the Orchestra and react to other musicians' melodies and sounds.

She played for the first time live for the talk with Michaela Hartmann and her companion guitarist Ernesto, once to open the talk and again before leaving for a concert.

She is a sensitive and open minded artist, and it was a great pleasure to have her present. She may come back in April for a personnal talk on a thursday, check the facebook events. She is playing on the second of April in Das Büro, with Monster Trio and friends...

Michaela Hartmann and Ernesto have played 5 times together, een though they are together since 2 years and, their relashionship to performing music has naturally evolved over the years. They are open to different sorts of music and are still open to new experiences and will play with Anna Kaluza again. Michaela likes the experimental instrument she has built because it is unusual and people stop and take time to listen. In comparaison to some places where you play and the publis keeps on talking...
She likes the attention created and the strong impact it has on the viewers/ audience.

Olesh is a graffiti painter, who has bean painting in the streets for more than 15 years... He is used to the hostility of the public. He says that 90% of the viewers are against what he is creating. In response to that he has built an protection and can paint in difficult situations without being disturbed.
He has had experiences with gangs of taggers competing each other, and developed friendships in the streets. Today, he likes Berlin, because there are still spaces for this street art.

Miriam Wuttke came to join in the second part of the talk, where she explains how her performances evolve and are contructed, often in three parts, like a theater play, with strong visual impact on the audience, that plays an important role in the development of the performance itself. 
Sometimes her character will take off her clothes and walk naked blind folded. She is more focused on the transfomation and change of state of mind, than the actual nudity. Her characters need to be free. She needs to follow her instinct, and feel what is right when the story unfolds. She gives birth, she shoots, she climbs ladders and still remains extremely feminin and childish at the same time.
The public can only sinck into her tales and follow the flow of the story. Her story, her characters, dancing in between life and death birth and rebirth, control no control...which is also, the title of a series of performances involving self-bondage.