Parallel/Play — Word/Play Between the Word and the Note

Das sagt der/die Veranstalter:in:

What happens when a word finds its note - or a note finds its word? 

Word/Play is a live performance evening that brings a word artist, a visual artist, and a musician together on stage. Language, image, and sound meet in the same space - and music becomes the thread that connects them.

The evening unfolds in three parts. First, a trio who have worked together for weeks share something that could only exist between all three of them. Then a second trio meets for the first time - no plan, no score, just listening and responding in real time. The evening closes with an open invitation: anyone in the room is welcome to join in, with a voice, an instrument, a phrase.

A poem has tempo. A sentence has pitch. A voice is an instrument. Here, a word belongs on the same stage as a note.

Word/Play is a special edition of Parallel/Play, in collaboration with Lettrétage Berlin.

Biographies of the Artists

Riikka Korpela (Curator) holds a BA in Fine Arts, where she studied printmaking and photography. Alongside her visual practice, she has always been drawn to music - studying singing and piano, collaborating with musicians, and working in theatre. Her creative world has always moved fluidly between disciplines.
As an artist and curator, she has initiated and developed several collaborative projects grounded in dialogue, experimentation, and live exchange. She is particularly drawn to the energy of live encounters, creating spaces where preparation leaves room for spontaneity - moments where something unexpected and unrepeatable can happen between artists in real time.
Questions of transformation and shifting perception run through both her artistic and curatorial work.

Lavia Lin (Curator) holds a BA in Humanities, Arts and Social Thought, where she studied arts and aesthetics, philosophy, and studio art. Her practice is rooted in the relationship between music and image - translating auditory experience into expressive abstract form, drawing from jazz improvisation, rhythmic gesture, and melodic flows of colour.
Live painting is at the core of her practice - real-time visual responses to sound, rhythm, and atmosphere, in collaboration with musicians across genres. Since 2017 she has collaborated with Italian band Satoyama, including their 2022 Sinking Island Europe tour, where live painting and music became tools to reflect on climate change. Alongside her practice, she facilitates creative workshops on mindfulness and creativity.

Demi Anter is an award-winning author, performer, and host. Her work has been published in Magma, Banshee, and The Times (UK). Selected performances include Glastonbury Festival ('19, '22), Loud Poets, and Poetry Ireland. Since 2012, Demi has built a network of creative writing and public speaking workshops. Her poetry collection Small Machine documents her first years in Berlin (Write Bloody UK, 2022). Chanel Miller described it as "strikingly radiant and reassuring," and Musa Okwonga as "sensitive, compelling, and beautifully vulnerable."

Preisinformation:

presale: 10-15.- / at the door: 12.-