„I can’t breathe“
“I Can’t Breathe” is a new live performance that explores the phenomenon of sensory exclusion — the ways in which scent, sound, and light can overwhelm the senses and create barriers to participation and belonging.
Through sound, body and voice the work constructs an immersive sonic environment that transforms sensory sensitivity into a tangible experience. The audience is drawn directly into the intensity of overstimulation, invited to feel what it means to be engulfed, disconnected, or excluded by sensory input.
While inspired in part by personal experiences, the performance shifts the focus outward — toward a shared reflection on sensory diversity and the urgent need for empathy, accessibility, and awareness in our everyday environments.
dialoguing@rts 09/2025 in Ulm, DE– Kunst als Raum für Begegnung/ Art as a Space for Encounter
A huge thank you to everyone who supported and accompanied our work in Ulm!
As part of the EU project dialoguing@rts, I spent three weeks in Eselsberg exploring the neighborhood’s sounds—researching, building, and creating—together with local residents, everyday noises, and performative encounters. The final exhibition, “In Kontakt Kommen”, shows how sound can make community tangible and turn art into a social space.
As part of the EU-wide project dialoguing@rts, I will be working together with the Ulm-based artist Matthis Katzmaier for three weeks in September 2025 in the Eselsberg district of Ulm. Our residency is part of a transnational network of 27 partners from eight countries. The aim of the project: to rethink cultural participation through dialogical art formats in music, dance, and theater.
In Ulm, our focus is on the medium of sound. We ask: What does a neighborhood sound like? Which voices are heard – and which are not? Together with local residents, we explore memories, noises, rhythms, and the sounds of their everyday lives. From this, performative encounters emerge – sometimes quiet, sometimes loud, but always in dialogue.
The residency is both artistic practice and part of a research process: it seeks to open up spaces in which community becomes audible and art can be experienced as a social practice.
Dialoguing@rts – Cultural Literacy for Social Inclusion: d@rts
Universität zu Köln, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät – Institut für Europäische Musikethnologie: Dialoguing@rts
Stadt Ulm: Dialoguing@rts
Im Rahmen des EU-weiten Projekts dialoguing@rts arbeite ich im September 2025 gemeinsam mit dem Ulmer Künstler Matthis Katzmaier drei Wochen lang im Ulmer Stadtteil Eselsberg. Unsere Residency ist Teil eines länderübergreifenden Netzwerks von 27 Partnern aus acht Ländern. Ziel des Projekts: kulturelle Teilhabe neu denken – durch dialogische Kunstformate in Musik, Tanz und Theater.
In Ulm liegt unser Fokus auf dem Medium Klang. Wir fragen: Wie klingt ein Stadtviertel? Welche Stimmen sind hörbar – und welche nicht? Gemeinsam mit Menschen vor Ort erforschen wir Erinnerungen, Geräusche, Rhythmen und Klänge ihres Alltags. Daraus entstehen performative Begegnungen – manchmal leise, manchmal laut, immer im Dialog.
Die Residency ist zugleich künstlerische Praxis und Teil eines Forschungsprozesses: Sie will Räume öffnen, in denen Gemeinschaft hörbar wird und Kunst als soziale Erfahrung erlebbar ist.
21.05.2025_Demo in Berlin – Kultur braucht Raum/ Culture needs Space!
With creative methods, we demonstrated alongside the Department of Culture to draw attention to how the severe cuts — especially the lack of space — endanger the survival of the cultural scene and of individuals, and threaten to destroy the cultural pulse of Berlin.
With my Sound Experiment I invited all passengers and visitors to be a part of the sound creation and to raise their voices for Berlin’s culture.
03.05.2025 Tag des offenen Ateliers – Künstlerhaus Götz
Spheres of Symbiosis – an immersive interactive audio-visual exhibition 04.04. – 06.04.2025 @ Frankfurt Atelier – Frankfurt am Main, DE
Die immersive Ausstellung Spheres of Symbiosis erforscht die Verbindung zwischen Natur, Technologie und Mensch durch Klang, Gestaltung und interaktive Erlebnisse. In drei einzigartigen Klangräumen – Kosmos, Erdoberfläche und Unterwasserwelt – erleben Besucher die fragile Symbiose unserer Ökosysteme. Interaktive Klanginstallationen, die auf Bewegung und Berührung reagieren, ermöglichen eine persönliche und kollektive Auseinandersetzung mit ökologischen und sozialen Fragestellungen. Recycelte Materialien, Sensortechnologie und experimentelle Soundscapes unterstreichen die Dringlichkeit nachhaltigen Handelns und laden zur Reflexion über Umweltzerstörung und Erneuerung ein.
Die Ausstellung verbindet Kunst und Wissenschaft und zeigt, wie kreative Partizipation zu einem bewussteren Umgang mit unserer Umwelt beitragen kann. Spheres of Symbiosis inspiriert dazu, durch gemeinschaftliches Handeln eine nachhaltigere Zukunft zu gestalten.
The immersive exhibition Spheres of Symbiosis explores the connection between nature, technology, and humans through sound, design, and interactive experiences. In three unique sound spaces – Cosmos, Earth’s Surface, and Underwater World – visitors experience the fragile symbiosis of our ecosystems. Interactive sound installations that respond to movement and touch allow for a personal and collective engagement with ecological and social issues. Recycled materials, sensor technology, and experimental soundscapes emphasize the urgency of sustainable action and invite reflection on environmental destruction and renewal.
The exhibition connects art and science, demonstrating how creative participation can contribute to a more conscious approach to our environment. Spheres of Symbiosis inspires collective action to shape a more sustainable future.
International artistic-methodological praxis exchange Italy – Brindisi 6.3-12.3.25
Meeting @ Fabrica el Faro in Brindisi with artists and social worker of the international associations Ten Rock Societa Cooperative Social Brindisi Italy, Fundación Escuela del Solidaridad Granada Spain and NamaStay from Germany @ the place of Fabrica el Faro in Italy.
One week of intensive work for to find out good ways to work in creative ways with different people in context of the project Compass to Self-Compassion – for generating new perspectives – to love and respect your body as it is.
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Sound & Dancetherapy – Artist exchange Italy Germany – Brindisi Italy 28.02. – 05.03.2025
Together with the artist Marilena from Italy we have worked on new approaches and methods how to connect dance and sound in an intuitively way. To get a feeling for movements – for sounds – for the body. And which methods can we use to bring different people together – musicians, dancers, teachers – in creative learn processes each from their own perspective, but connected in the interdisciplinary work.
