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Armin Lorenz Gerold
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Perché ‘SKAM Italia’ è una rivoluzione (anche musicale), Interview with director Ludovico Bessegato, Rolling Stone
Kept here by our bodies
Valerie Kyeyune Backström, Kunstkritikk.com
From the side of the desk
Mat Smith, further dot

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February 2020

Ruisdael Stipendium 2020
Installation and publication
18 December 2020Call me Babes
Single and music video
Wirefoxterrier – Call me Babes, Berlin/Marseille, December 2020
Directed by Robin Plus with artwork by Enver Hadzijaj18 December 2020Call me Babes
Single and music video
May 2020Radio Pristina
Extended Play‘Radio Pristina’ follows up on Wirefoxterrier’s debut single ‘Episode VI: Sex (Play and being played), which was featured in the viral web show ‘SKAM Italia’ in late 2018, one of the first TV shows in Italy to feature LGBTI characters in leading roles. Another track of ‘Radio Pristina EP’, will be part of the show’s soundtrack in the upcoming season, premiering May 15 on Netflix.The EP ‘Radio Pristina’ was written in the direct aftermath of Armin Lorenz Gerold’s (aka Wirefoxterrier) travel to Kosovo in late 2018. Triggered by his encounters and experiences with artists and their local networks as well as by his visit to ‘Radio Prishtina’, the city’s prime radio station, the artist and musician created a fictional audio web show, inspired by the Norwegian web TV franchise SKAM. Following the show’s storytelling techniques, Gerold plays with its ‘real-time’ release strategy. Using episode titles as song titles, he introduces fictional characters and storylines emerging from his recent travels, while the clips posted on his social media seem to happen almost simultaneously to watching them.The tracks on ‘Radio Pristina’ follow fictional characters through a couple of winter days in Kosovo’s capital. Gerold’s tracks are similar to mini-episodes influenced by movie soundtracks of 1980s neo-noir films. Playing off a limited set of beats and instruments he is giving space to such frequently used sounds to develop and appear as motifs in the musical narrative. Much as in the revival of noir films of the 1980s, we are instantly placed into a city at night through chromatic synthesizer soundscapes.

Opening the play is a blissful eight-minute power synth-pop song called ‘Respirare’. Episode IV ‘Give me back my money’ finds the listener placed among a city square that has been taken over by crows. Only after Episode VI ‘Sex (Play and being played)’, Wirefoxterrier sings for the first time, chanting about a lover, lost somewhere in the city filled with desire, teenage angst and dreams of escape. Episode VII ‘Outside’ plays with the noir theme by introducing a jazzy open high hat, along piano chords, blending various genres into an immersive listen and closing the EP as Wirefoxterrier’s characters seem to disappear into the darkness they emerged from.Pride Month Four episode podcast mix for No Drama
Episode #1, I think they are unfamiliar with it because it’s tenderness.
A mix by Wirefoxterrier, 21 May 2020 Playing:

WG. Sebald in conversation with Michael Silverblatt, 6 December 2001
Sega Bodega & oklou - Komodo (Cover)
Ivan Silvestrini - Parasol
Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald (Episode 10)
Hiroyuki Onogawa - Sacrifice
Jürgen Müller - Wasserwelten (Waterworlds)
Surge by Etel Adnan (Episode 11)
Francesco Messina - Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Sudden Inspiration
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Leguin
Enver Hadzijaj - I make myself invisible in the corridors and stairwells
Caustic Window - 101 Rainbows Ambient
Ode To Gravity: The Music of Joanna Brouk, 25. October 1972
DJ Healer - Interior Renovations
In Earliest Morning by James Schuyler
Wirefoxterrier - Galerie des Glaces (Dynacord 1962)
J. Balvin - No es justo (abriged instrumental)Episode #2, Once a Verb, Now a Noun by Enver Hadzijaj
Episode #3, You Have Forgotten My Kisses And I Have Forgotten Your Name by Lori E. Allen and Debbie Wale
Episode #4, What a Waste by Alice Cannava
24 March – 24 April 2020 Broadcast from home
Reading series during quarantine on IGTVView all episodes here:
https://www.instagram.com/wiredfoxterrier/channel/

Episode 01: 'In earliest morning'
by James SchuylerEpisode 02: from 'An Apartment on Uranus'
by Paul B. PreciadoEpisode 03: 'WALL TATTOO'
by Enver HadzijajEpisode 04: 'Contact' / 'Network‘
by Samuel R. DelanyEpisode 05: from ‘Harbart’
by Nabarun BhattacharyaEpisode 06: 'It’s rough but it’s a poem’
by Doireann O’Malley
Episode 07: 'Visiting Hours'
by Essex HemphillEpisode 08: from 'The Lonely City'
by Olivia Laing

Episode 09: from ‘The Dispossessed’
by Ursula K. Le Guin Episode 10: from ’The Rings of Saturn’
by W.G. Sebald

Episode 11: from ’Surge’
by Etel Adnan

Episode 12: from 'Principles of physical Geology’
by Arthur Holmes

Episode 13: from ‘Atmospheric Disturbances’
by Armin Lorenz Gerold

Episode 14: Welcome Back Spaceboi!
by Brendan Cook.

Episode 15: Having a Coke with You
by Frank O’ Hara

Episode 16: ‚Invisible Signals‘
by Kim Addonizio

Episode 17: from ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’
by Ocean Vuong

Episode 18: FORENSIC FOLD
by Lori E. Allen.
With kind thanks to Lori E. Allen, Alice Cannava of Occulto Magazine, Brendan Cook, Jennifer Hope Davy, Alex Diaz, Enver Hadzijaj, Doireann O' Malley, Hanne Lippard, Tom Roach for selecting these texts for me to read. 21 February 2020, 7pmA night with Armin Lorenz Gerold & Eli Levén
Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden
organized by mintWelcome to an evening with performances, poetry and bar at Konsthall C! During the evening participating artist Armin Lorenz Gerold (Berlin) will perform under his alias wirefoxterrier, and writer Eli Levén (Stockholm) will read from his upcoming book, to be published by Norstedts in August. This event marks the final weekend of this exhibition. The performance starts 7:306 December 2019 –
23 February 2020The physical world was still there
Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden
curated by mintThe physical world was still there but this exhibition turns its back on it. From a close perspective sound, video, painting and objects share the joy and fear of temporal ecstasy, rush, heat and mental confusion. When someone puts their hands on your body and your blood vessels merge, when the last drink of the sun blurs your mind, when time seems so thick, when the night is in motion.With Milena Bonilla, Elis Eriksson, David Wojnarowicz & Marion Scemama, Armin Lorenz Gerold and Thale Vangen7 September 2019 –
17 November 2019Part of the Labyrinth
Gothenburg Biennale for Contemporary Art
in collaboration with Doireann O' MalleyIn the video installation Prototype II: The Institute, Doireann O’Malley explores the complexity of gender constructions. The work was made borrowing from collaborative methodologies such as Live Action Role Playing (LARP), somatic exercises and speculative worldbuilding. The main characters in the film were asked to improvise on their own ideas about what it would mean to live in a world without binary gender definitions. The film references scientific laboratory environments, modernist architecture, psychotherapy, bio-politics, and utopian science fiction. It captures the way the boundaries between genders — and boundaries between human, nature, and technology — are far more diffuse than the divisions of constructed polar opposites such as nature and culture or man and woman. Can technological development make possible a more complex understanding of the world and override ingrained behavioural patterns?

Doireann O’Malley and Armin Lorenz Gerold have been collaborating since 2016 for the film series Prototypes for which Gerold composes the sound and music.

Doireann O’Malley ( Limerick, Ireland) lives and works in Berlin. Their practice explores new perspectives on trans identity through the lens of a post psycho-analytic, schizo-analytic methodology of rhizomic entanglements, machine learning and quantum transformation. O’Malley is currently participating in the Berlin Program for Artists. Granted Berlin Art Prize in 2018, their work has been exhibited a.o. at The Hugh Lane (2018), KW Institute of Contemporary Art (2018).

Armin Lorenz Gerold (Graz, Austria) is a Berlin-based artist and composer. Centering on sound, his practice traces the inherent multiplicities of sonar experience resulting in audio plays, audio visual live-performances, broadcasts, audio installations, and sound design. His recent exhibitions and performances include KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, LambdaLambdaLambda, Pristina, and Between Bridges, Berlin.

6 September 2019 –
10 November 2019Beatriz Olabarrieta , Stay twice
Sound piece in the exhibition at Bielefelder Kunstverein Weather report, stereo sound file, approx. 13 Minutes in a loop, 2019
The Acoustic Form
Armin Lorenz Gerold, Agnès Pe and Nuno da Luz
Auditorium Centro Botín. Muelle de Albareda, Paseo de Pereda, s / n. 39004, Santander.
Curated by Alex Alonso Diaz of Fluent

Program:
Armin Lorenz Gerold, Atmospheric Disturbances, 19 April, 7.30pm
Agnes Pe, Wuthering Heights, 20 April, 7pm
Nuno da Luz, Con resonancia asistida, 20 April, 8.45pm

Thinking through the relation of sound to expanded forms of perception, The Acoustic Form animates a series of practices bond together by the notion of echolocation. A kind of sound-navigation process that helps whales to position and voyage through space –even in the darkest of waters–, echolocation makes us question our phonocentric understanding of sound.

At a moment when modes of sonic representation and transmission bring into earshot sound from previously unheard realms – the deep sea, the inside of our heads, outer space (1); when new technologies make it possible to conjoin hearing and deaf worlds through a common currency of vibration; the definition of ‚‘sound‘‘ expands to access worlds previously inaudible, even unimagined.Are not sonic vibrations, rhythms and cadences an impulse to merge with our environments? A means for connectivity and belonging? An invitation to melt into the geometry of the world? In an attempt to answer these questions, The Acoustic Form imagines spaces and acoustic situations that interrogate the cultural definition of sound, as well as concepts such as perception, consciousness and sensoriality.made with Lay Theme