Learning to Listen mit Polypixa

In the organizer's words:

With POLYPIXA
Moderated by: HANITRA WAGNER

In the Kompakt Record Store of the legendary Cologne label for electronic music, ADKDW invites you once a month to a joint listening session: oscillating between music and conversation, a guest presents selected songs, song fragments or instrumentals and categorizes them from a personal, music-historical and/or political perspective.

Polypixa is a poet, photographer, painter and non-binary earth dweller. With her last LP Queer Criminals, she has already gathered a considerable fan base. She grew up in the Transnistria region of Moldova, where she used her camera to document the fragility and inner turmoil of a generation caught between superpowers. Now, as a citizen with a German passport, she practices the dialog between political and poetic art. She collaborates with the Colorist and Waltraud Blischke, among others. She is also currently writing her third album, which has the working title No Visa to Heaven.

At Learning to Listen, Poly will present her collection of post-Soviet vinyl and queer poetry, which she collected at traditional Moldovan bazaars and flea markets - a research she began in 2020. During the event, she will talk about the versatility of the frontier experience, the influences of bus stops in the political wasteland and tornadoes that destroyed her studio, as well as how anger can be a helpful spiritual driver.

The Learning to Listen series
Learning toListen uses radio broadcasts, podcasts and live events to explore forms of listening and non-listening - and the knowledge that can be gained from them. The central aim of Learning to Listen is to understand why certain sounds, songs and narratives are heard and others are not. Together we want to deal with internalized ways of thinking and learn to listen and unlearn.

Wed 29 05 2024 | 19:30
Kompakt Record Store, Werderstr. 15 - 19, 50672 Cologne
In German language
Free admission

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With POLYPIXA
Hosted by: HANITRA WAGNER

Every month, the ADKDW invites you to a joint listening session at the Kompakt Record Store of the legendary Cologne label for electronic music. In each session, an invited guest will play selected songs, song fragments, or instrumentals and discusses them from a personal, music-historical, and/or political point of view.

Polypixa is a poet, photographer, painter, and non-binary earthling. With her latest LP Queer Criminals, she has amassed quite the following and acclaim. Grown up in the Transnistria region of Moldova, where Poly used her camera to document the fragility of a generation torn between the superpowers, she now is a passport-holding German citizen and practices a dialogue between the political and poetical arts. Here, she collaborates with the likes of the Colorist and Waltraud Blischke. Currently, she is writing on her third album, which has the working title No Visa to Heaven.

For Learning to Listen, Poly will showcase her collection of post-Soviet vinyl and queer poetry collected from traditional Moldovan bazaars and flea markets, a journey she started in 2020. During this event, she will discuss the versatility of the border experience, the influences of bus stops in the political wastelands, tornados blowing apart her studio, and how being angry can be a good spiritual motor.

Learning to Listen Series
In radio broadcasts, podcasts and live events, Learning to Listen deals with forms of listening and non-listening - and the knowledge that can be drawn from them. The main aim of Learning to Listen is to initiate didactic processes intended to help us understand why certain sounds, songs, and narratives are heard and others are not. Together we will reflect on our internalized ways of thinking, of learning to listen and to un-learn.

Wed 29 05 2024 | 7:30 pm
Kompakt Record Store, Werderstr. 15 - 19, 50672 Cologne
In German language
Admission free of charge