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environment. At the core of her practice lies the question: ‘How can
we live together on Earth in a sustainable, just, joyful, and thriving
manner?’ While she doesn’t offer straightforward answers, she aims
to create communal spaces to explore multiple local responses to
this big question through research, installations, workshops, and
performances. Her approach often integrates organic materials
and processes, and other-than-humans (like plants and microbes)
with personal human narratives, crafting immersive, site-specific
installations and experiences. Through this blend of elements, Nina
seeks to open up dialogues. She asks, “Do you want to weave stories
with me, and practise collective wellbeing? Imagine what worlds we
would create.”
Walli Höfinger (Colaborative Reichenow) is a performance artist,
voice performer and voice teacher. Her recent artistic work focuses
on voice, writing and composition. She originally studied New
Artistic Media with a focus on performance art with Prof. Ulrike
Rosenbach at the HBK Saarbrücken, followed by a lateral entry
into contemporary dance and performance making. Since 1996,
she has been developing her own performances with movement,
aerial acrobatics, video installations, sound, writing, voice and
piano. Over time she collaborated in experimental improvisation/
instant composition context. She created and performed several
original voice performances. Recently she concentrates on writing
and creating experimental voice and piano compositions. Walli
works and has worked both solo and in various formations with
artists from other disciplines, amongst them Teresa Brayshaw (UK),
Christiane Hommelsheim (D), Jonathan Hart-Makwaia (US), Deborah
Hay (US), Biliana Voutchkova (D), Ingo Reulecke (D), Christopher Dell
(D) and others. She has been a recognised Roy Hart Centre voice
teacher (Malérargues, France) since 2009 and regularly teaches voice
workshops in Germany and throughout Europe. She speaks German,
English and French. She lives and works near Berlin.
Christiane Hommelsheim (Colaborative Reichenow) studied
video and performance art with Prof. Ulrike Rosenbach at the
HBK Saar in Saarbrücken, and spent a semester at DASARTS in
Amsterdam. She is a certified voice teacher of the Roy Hart Voice
Centre. Furthermore she is certified in Perceptive Pedagogy/
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Fascia Treatment (Methode Dani Bois). She was part of the SPCP
The Runner (solo performance commissioning project) by Deborah
Hay. Perception as a performative practice is a central topic in her
artistic and teaching work. Since 2010 she has been collaborating
with the composer Ralf Haarmann as Duo haarmannhommelsheim
with whom she founded the label Klangmœbel and released the CDs
Shadows, Fairies and Me (2011) and Die Umrandung des Nichts (The
Edges of Nothing,2018). In 2020, together with Australian composer
and Alexander Technique teacher David Young she created the
performance Sarah Bellam in Christiane’s very own Truck Show
and installation Sarah Bellam in Animal Documentaries. In 2021 she
created the installation Since when are you in this state? (64 reel
to reel tapes of psychiatric conversations) for Museum St. Wendel,
Germany. In 2022, she released the video series Random beauty with
music by Duo haarmannhommelsheim.
Vera Jonas (Soharóza Nonprofit Association) is a Hungarian singersongwriter, voice teacher and Expressive Arts facilitator, based in
Berlin. She has been working as a full time musician for the last 15
years, playing and touring with her band as well as other projects
around the world. She’s been a collaborator all her life, that’s how
she met Soharóza, with whom they had several projects together.
Since moving to Berlin, she has focused on her studies and practice
of Expressive Arts. The latter is an intermodal approach that utilises
a variety of methods including writing, music, visual arts, drama
and dance to help people achieve personal growth using their own
resources.
Endre Kertész (Soharóza Nonprofit Association) is a Hungarian
cellist. He finished his studies in Vienna and tried himself in all sorts
of musical genres, such as in Budapest Anarchist Theater, Lajkó
Félix Band, FrenAk Company, ¡Nosnach, More von dir, a Gecó és a
Fa, Budapest Improvisers Orchestra, By Heart Quartet, Free Style
Chamber Orchestra, Szirtes Edina Mókus Quintet, Juhász Kata
Company, Pataki Klári Company, Willany Leó, and Blue Canarro
Group.
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