August 29, 2019
Filed under: Carried Bells · Hošek Contemporary

Carried Bells, a new work, will be presented at Hošek Contemporary in Berlin from 5.–25. October, 2019. | More »

August 23, 2019
Filed under: Artist talk · Carried Bells · Hošek Contemporary

One of the most immediate and noticeable acoustic experiences of many cities, including the city of Berlin, are the sounds created by the daily ringing of church bells. These objects, often centuries old, are unique hand-made musical instruments. The process of creating, installing, and ringing them has aspects that are technological, artistic, social, musical, cultural, and ritualistic. The prominence of this regular bell-ringing is one of the conspicuous sounds of… | More »

August 16, 2019
Filed under: grüntaler9 · Minute/Year

The next open minute event of Minute/Year will be at grüntaler9 on Thursday, 12. September. | More »

May 24, 2019
Filed under: Interview · Minute/Year

There is an interview about Minute/Year (in German) on Gallerytalk, by Lynn Kühl. Seit bereits vier Jahren nehmen die Künstler Kata Kovács und Tom O’Doherty täglich für die Installation Minute/Year eine Minute lang den Sound im Raum auf. Das künstlerische Experiment erschließt akustische Basisnoten, die Räume unterscheiden können. Ob diese Klänge wohl auch die Atmosphäre von Orten verändern?Space Tone: Das Künstlerduo Kata Kovács und Tom O’Doherty erforscht den Klang von… | More »

May 4, 2019
Filed under: grüntaler9 · Minute/Year

Minute/Year is an automated, multi-year, sound-based durational installation artwork. For the entirety of 2019 — beginning on January 1., and continuing until December 31. — it is installed in grüntaler9, for its fourth annual iteration. And on Monday, May 20., 2019, there will be a special open minute event, at grüntaler9. This event is free, and unticketed — just come by. During this event, attendees will be able to directly… | More »

March 16, 2019
Filed under: Ponderosa · PORCH

We will be guest artists for P.O.R.C.H. 2019, in July, at Ponderosa, Stolzenhagen. | More »

January 16, 2019
Filed under: Minute/Year · Podcast

The recordings from Minute/Year are now available as a weekly podcast. Minute/Year is a work that generates one minute of audio every day — and each daily one-minute recording builds on and transforms the one before, which builds in turn on the one before that, in an iterative series. So, to get a sense of the progress of the work, it can often be helpful to listen to a series… | More »

January 4, 2019
Filed under: 2019 · grüntaler9 · Minute/Year

The 2019 iteration of Minute/Year has been running since 1. January, 2019, in grüntaler9, Berlin. About grüntaler9: grüntaler9 is a space towards the performative. It is the only space in Berlin dedicated solely to performance and time-based art. The space is focused not only on hosting live performances, but also deeply committed to being a platform for collaborative processes of research for performative and time-based work.Since its beginnings in 2011,… | More »

November 10, 2018
Filed under: 1–100 · Ausland · Nearness · Plan B — Belasco & New

1–100 will be presented at Ausland, Berlin, on 9. December, 2018, together with new work by Plan B — Belasco & New, as part of the event Nearness — New Sound and Performance Works. The introductory text for the event is below. Nearness is an evening of new artworks by two Berlin-based artist duos — plan b (Sophia New and Daniel Belasco Rogers) presenting Together/Apart, and Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty… | More »

November 1, 2018
Filed under: 1–100 · Mix · Nearness

1–100 is a performance piece that involves playing excerpts from the same piece of music, many times over. The music that is used in the work is a track by the Berlin rock band Paro, first released in 2013. Although 1–100 embraces the limitations of repetition, it nonetheless has significant changes in mood and theme as it develops. In order to try to give somewhat of a sense of these… | More »