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2 THE AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE Within B C H I J Markus Mehr and Stefanie Sixt are exploring the phenomenon of faith and religion. B C H I J is an audiovisual examination of the five biggest communities of faith: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism - taken as examples for religious groups. The piece is an audiovisual observation and an exploration. There is no right or wrong. It is a contemplation, seen from a neutral point of view. tone open up to a wide waving spectrum of sounds as the recipient is going deeper into the art of listening. The abuse of religious traditions for political purposes or to establish power not only led to a change of many original sacret writings but also established borders between the world religions and led to wars. (Markus Mehr) Allthough the five pieces are using visuals and sounds that are based on a similar language they develop an individual expression and the dividing lines between the religions back out. MUSIC Electronic sound scores are mixed with alienated audio elements such as patterns of religious divinations. Wicked frequencies are the disturbing, irritating factor, not letting the listener lay back. Noises that first of all are seemingly a straight

3 VISUALS Abstract 3D Objects are representing the five communities of faith. They are embedded into spherical environments, that are temporarily associating brain wave activities or just evoke emotions, like freedom and restriction, belief and doubt. Balanced compositions and slow movements are detached by musical influenced distractions. Seen from a meta-level every religio-ideological movement implies the goal of re-connection - simply treading a different path. There is no division but the illusion of it. It s all one. (Stefanie Sixt) Link to vimeo trailer: picts: visuals in progress for B C H I J by stefanie sixt, 01/15/2013

4 B C H I J is the fourth joint piece by Stefanie Sixt and Markus Mehr ( Synchron 2009, Komo 2010, Transit 2011) SHOWS Gallery Doppelgaenger, Teatro Forma, Time Zones Festival, Bari, Italy, 11/22+23/2012 Stoff, Stockholm Fringe Festival, Sweden, 08/24/2012 Long Night of Arts, Augsburg, Germany, 06/16/2012 Goeteborg Art Sounds Festival, Sweden, 05/11/2012 Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden, 02/ /18/2012 Moritz Church, Augsburg, Germany, 12/10/2011 Stoff Stockholm Fringe Festival, Sweden, 08/ /25/2011 Modular Festival, Augsburg, Germany, 06/30/2011 KissKiss Ballroom, Berlin, Germany, 06/28/2011 Noise Fest, Augsburg, Germany, 05/07/2011 MS Stubnitz- Hamburg, Germany, 01/07/2011 Madeiradig - Music and Art Festival, Madeira, Portugal, 12/05/2010 VJ Festival, Erlangen, Germany, 11/06/2010 lab30 Media Art Festival, Augsburg, Germany, 11/05/2010 H2 - Museum for Contemporary Art, Augsburg, Germany, 10/23/2010 Passions Church, Berlin, Germany, 08/15/2010 Gallery SystM (Digital in Berlin) - Berlin, Germany, 08/14/2010

5 Bio Stefanie Sixt After her studies of Art and Communication- Design (Audiovisual Medias) in the Netherlands and Germany Stefanie Sixt founded her label sixt sense in 2000 in Cologne, further in Berlin, Philadelphia, actually Augsburg. She has produced numerous experimental short films, music videos, conceptual visual arts, audiovisual live (dance) performances and video installations. Since 2010 she has been teaching at different universities of applied sciences. In her art she is reflecting inner processes about the relation of human and nature, physical restriction and its resolution. Sixts form of expression is progressively abstract and reduced, as she is focusing on working in black and white. She won several awards and distinctions, her work was shown on festivals e.g. in Berlin (GER), Dresden (GER), Osnarbrueck (GER), Stockholm (SW), Harare (ZW) and internationally exhibited at galleries and in museums. By the end of 2012 Stefanie Sixt was part of the Artist in Residence program of Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. Bio Markus Mehr Markus Mehr had started making music back in the 80ies. His musical roots intitially are in rock music as can be heard on numerous album releases published under various band names and the pseudonym Aroma. After being on tour for years with the projects mentioned above, Mehr decided to take a musical new step, to release under his name. With the album Lava published by Hidden Shoal Recordings in June 2010 he shows his love for sound sculptures, drone, experimental music and the artistic creation of sound. In January 2012 IN is published followed by the albums ON (July 2012) and OFF (January 2013). All of them are reviewed worldwide. The focus of this triptyche is on repetitive compositions, canons, broken open by elements of noise. At the moment he is concentrating on nonharmonic structures, low frequency oszillations, on generating noise with diverse electronic devices (like guitar pick ups, shavers, curlers etc.), combined with samples, found sounds and field recordings. Markus Mehr performed on several festivals, in churches and museums all over Europe and his music is currently part of the theatre performance First Life by Verena Billinger and Sebastian Schulz.

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