SANATORIUM RAINBOW HILLS

Performance on zoom

Leisure & Pleasure festival 2023 @SOPHIENSÆLE

26. + 27.5.2023

Künstlerische Leitung / artistic direction: Neo Hülcker

Performance: Athena Lange, Valerie Renay, Armin Wieser, Neo Hülcker Bühne und Kostüm/ stage and costume: Lisa Fütterer

Dramaturgie /dramaturgy: Rahel Spöhrer

Sound: Carola Caggiano
Bildregie/ Video direction: Ranav Adhikari

Video: Zoe Kahlert Media Technology Partner: Boiling Head

outside eye: Eyk Kauly
outside ears: Melanie Hambrecht, Silja Korn

Beratung ästhetische Barrierefreiheit für blindes und sehbehindertes Publikum / consultation aestihetic access for blind and visually impaired audience: Sophia Neises Produktionsleitung / production management: Katja Kettner Schneckenperformer*innen / snail performers: Claude, Chantalle, Rüdiger, Schneckbert und Otto-Marie

Schneckentrainer / snail trainer:: Jo Koppe

Eine Produktion von Neo Hülcker in Koproduktion mit SOPHIENSÆLE im Rahmen von Leisure & Pleasure, gefördert aus Mitteln des Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Gefördert vom Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen von NEUSTART KULTUR. Medienpartner: Arts of the Working Class, Berlin Art Link, Rausgegangen, tip Berlin, taz.die tageszeitung, Missy Magazine

Version in Lautsprache

mit integrierter Audiodeskription

Version in Deutscher Gebärdensprache

Meleagris Henricus Wildus

composed by Neo Hülcker

performed by Henry Wilde aka Antonia Baehr

*instrumental imitations for Meleagris Henricus Wildus* Florian Bergmann, Alba Gentili-Tedeschi, Stella Adriana Bergmann, Carola Schaal, Astrid Schmeling, Vera Schmidt, Paul Hübner

*Hosted by Social Pleasure Center@Fortuna*

In Memoriam Schnucko

composed by Henry Wilde aka Antonia Baehr

performed by Neo Hülcker

*Hosted by Social Pleasure Center@Fortuna*

schotten dicht

for Pony Says

18.+19.6.2021

Ackerstadtpalast

Fotos: Silvia Maggi

Das Musikgeschäft

Ein Online-Musiktheater mit Teleshopping

von: Neo Hülcker & Bastian Zimmermann

mit: Henry Wilde aka Antonia Baehr, Sabrina Ma, David Nemtsov, Armin Wieser, Valerie Renay, Carola Schaal, Florian Bergmann, Heinrich Horwitz, Christian Dieterle

Komposition u Regie: Neo Hülcker

Dramaturgie u Regie: Bastian Zimmermann

Regieassistenz: Kasia Noga

Produktionsleitung: Katja Kettner

Klangregie: Janine Eisenächer

Bühne: Michael Kleine u Lisa Fütterer

Livestream: Ranav Adhikari & Christina Voigt

13. + 14.2.2021

radialsystem Berlin

Fotos: David Beecroft

Dress Up: Selbstporträt mit Hund

Ackerstadtpalast

10.12.2020

live stream

Idee, Komposition, Performance - Neo Hülcker

Stimme - Armin Wieser

Ton - Marcelo Schmittner

Licht - SE Strobach

Ausstattung - Sabine Hilscher

Produktion und Dramaturgie - Ulrike Ruf

Videoproduktion - Regina Teichs

"Neo Hülcker`s breaking of the voice #3"

with premieres by Karel Stulens and paranormal ϕueer group

Festival für Immaterielle Kunst, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

28.9. 2020

"we speak"

performed by we spoke

UA, 25.10.2019 Kunststation St. Peter, Köln

Konzert der KGNM

"What is the future other than a dream that we are able to dream right now?"

part of "Manifestos for Queer Futures #2" im Rahmen des Festivals “The Present Is Not Enough – Performing Queer Histories and Futures”: hebbel-am-ufer.de/programm/pdetail/manifestos-for-queer-futures-2/

21.6.2019, HAU 2, Berlin

"Musik für tote Tiere 3a"

by Wilde & Hülcker

7.12.2018

Héroines of Sound Festival

HAU2, Berlin

"Bei unserer Höhle dahinten"

performed by Sprechbohrer

10.11.2018

Lettretage, Berlin

"tofu and horses"

performed by Marta Forsberg & Neo Hülcker

5.4.2019

common ground, Berlin

"unboxing transmitter"

for trio transmitter (Florian Bergmann, Alba Gentili-Tedeschi, Benedikt Bindewald)

22.3.2019

ausland, Berlin

"I´m in your bodies" for flute, accordion, voice and 3 speaking dogs

for collect/project (Frauke Aulbert, Eva Zöllner, Shanna Gutierrez, Francisco Castillo Trigueros)

24.11.2018

Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg

"A body essay. Fiction actually"

for mam.manufaktur für aktuelle musik

3.11.2018

Kunstquartier Bethanien,

Klangwerkstatt Berlin

"When my hair is completely smooth, I unplug the machine. I fold the sheet of paper in two, so that the hairs collect at the center, forming a uniform line. A line of black cocaine. Im doing up a line of hair. Its almost the same high. I open the jar of glue and add a streak of it above my upper lip with the moistened brush, then tale a strand of hair between my fingers and seit it along the streak of glue until it sticks perfectly to the skin of my face. A fag`s mustache." aus Paul B. Preciado: TESTO JUNKIE (mit freundlicher Genehmigung von THE FEMINIST PRESS, New York)

"Neo Hülcker`s breaking of the voice concert"

pieces for my transitioning voice by: 

Henry Wilde (aka Antonia Baehr), Andrea Neumann, Edward Henderson, Jessie Marino, Stellan Veloce, Andy Ingamells, Owen Davis, Sam Andreae, Tomomi Adachi, Mathias Monrad Møller, Christian Kesten, Arturas Bumšteinas, Isabell Spengler, Sabine Akiko Ahrendt and myself

30.4.2018 (part one) and 30.10.2018 (part two)

ausland, Berlin

"Yes, Schiperol"

for Bastard Assignments

17.4.2018

Asylum, Peckham, London

"Gib Pfötchen"

for Maulwerker

October 2017

Ballhaus Ost Berlin

AUGENLIERDER. KÖRPERKOMPOSITIONEN

PERFORMED BY MAULWERKER* Henrik Kairies, Christian Kesten, Katarina Rasinski, Steffi Weismann

What is human, what is animal and what is neither? How do humanity and ‘animality’ manifest themselves on a stage? How do humans imitate animals? How do humans imitate humans who imitate animals? And what does that which we perceive as animal-like tell us about being human?
In my research into these questions, I unearthed a variety of material that I incorporated into various acoustic and performative situations for this composition. Human-animal relationships, hunting, and human-animal intimacy in ASMR videos were the main sources of inspiration

"ASMR *contemporary music ensemble*"

for decoder ensemble

19.9.2017

Warsaw Autumn 2017

IMKA Theatre, Warsaw

ASMR *contemporary music ensemble*

played by Ensemble contrechamps

part of the concert "Autour de Steffen Krebber"

26.2.2019

Studio Ernest-Ansermet, Genève

"etudes to become a deer"

with Jennifer Torrence

21.9.2017, at "Haldeplass", Oslo

original duration: 30 minutes

TENTACULUS OHRI (Wilde & Hülcker), Berlin

Tentaculus Ohri

 by and with Henry Wilde (aka Antonia Baehr) & Neo Hülcker (aka Prof Puppy)

 – a collection for unplugged listening

Foto: Marc Seestaedt

Foto: Henry Wilde

performances:

-18.8.2017 at witch rave, Kulturhaus Insel Berlin, Alt-Treptow 6, Berlin

-5.11.2017 at 3 AM, Flutgraben Berlin

-31.5.2018 at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, part of the exhibition: Capitalo, Chthulu, and a Much Hotter Compost Pile. Über Mensch-Umwelt-Verhältnisse

-23.6.2018 part of "the dead are loosing or how to ruin an exhibition", Performance-Programm in der Klosterruine Franziskanerkirche

-11.+12.8.2018 at F.A.G. feminist art gallery, Toronto, Canada

- upcoming: 2.12.2019 Collegicum Hungaricum:

'Tentaculus Ohri' will be performed in the framewort of a special edition of Montag Modus events called KLIMATA, curated by Lena Szirmay Kalos and Jasna Layes Vinovrski.

Taking the term “climate” in its broadest sense as the project’s point of departure, Klimata consists of five subsequent events that explore current global economic, political and social developments. Each event has a different focus within the broader theme of the climate. As defined by Bruno Latour, climate is understood here as “a wide range of relationships between humans and their material living conditions”.

for more information, see Klimata 2019
 

"da war ich noch nie in meinem ganzen Leben"

with Antonia Baehr

Installation
part of the exhibition "DEPOT ERBE"
Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg
26.3.-1.5.2017

"ear action"

with Stellan Veloce

for earprotection and objects

27.1.2017 dark music days, Iceland

In this one-on-one-performance we play a composition on ear-protection-headphones. The earprotection-headphones -which are normally used to mute environmental sounds- are working as a resonator directly on the ears of the audience member. They are played with different equipment like violin bows, vibrating objects, gloves, tape, fingernails, pop-rocks-candy in bowls filled with water and more. One performance lasts 6 minutes and will be done in loops over several hours. 2 people at a time are able to experience the performance.

"good dog"

for 4 dog*human performers

performed by MOCREP

6/4/2017

Mana Contemporary

Chicago

A piece for humans and dogs and everyone in between.

„I often ask myself, just to see, who I am-and who I am (following) at the moment when, caught naked, in silence, by the gaze of an animal, for example the eyes of a cat, I have trouble, yes, a bad time overcoming my embarrassment. Whence this malaise? I have trouble repressing a reflex dictated by immodesty. Trouble keeping silent within me a protest against the indecency. Against the impropriety that comes of finding oneself naked, one's sex exposed, stark naked before a cat that looks at you without moving, just to see.“ (Derrida: The animal therefore I am)

"crackles"

for bodies on stage

version for 3 performer

performed by Tim Cape, Edward Henderson and Josh Spear (Bastard Assignments)

4.11.2016

Block 336 Brixton,  London

„Es scheint recht einfach eine klangliche Form – sogar eine Vision – zu evozieren, unter welchen Bedingungen aber könnte man von einem visuellen Geräusch sprechen?“

(Jean-Luc Nancy in: Zum Gehör, diaphanes 2010, S. 10)

„It seems quite simple to evoke a sounding form – even a vision, but under which conditions is it possible to speak about a visual noise?“

(Jean-Luc Nancy in: Zum Gehör, diaphanes 2010, p. 10)

Antonia Baehr composing for & with Johnny Chang & Neele Hülcker & Lucie Vitkova
23.9.2016
Labor Sonor : Moving Music
choreographers compose for musicians
transdisciplinary festival & symposium
23 & 24 september 2016
ballhaus ost

"copy myself#2"

22.7.2016

Stud!o10, Uferhallen Berlin

"crackles" for bodies on stage

for MOCREP

11.8.2016

Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2016

Orangerie

"ear action"

with Stellan Veloce

for earprotection and objects

19.6.2016 Pacific Bodies, Flutgraben Berlin

Fotos: Brandon Dougherty

"copy!"

ASMR-cyborg-performance

19.2.2016 ausland, Berlin

Welcome to the world of ASMR! ASMR stands for ‘Autonomous Sensory Meridian
Response’ and is a phenomenon that causes pleasant tingles in the head. There are more than 1.5 million Youtube videos in which ASMR artists try to trigger these tingly sensations by producing quiet microphone-amplified sounds like whispering, hair brushing, crinkling or cracking noises. The sounds in this piece may have an impact on your body. If you feel tingles -starting in your head, going down the spine- you may be ASMR sensitive. In my performance, I will bring this internet phenomenon into real life. I will celebrate the soundfetish with my ASMR friends from the internet and some hairy guests.

"ASMR contemporary music ensemble [tapping] [scratching] [brushing] [whispering]" version for 4 performers.

Performed by Josh Spear, Edward Henderson, Timothy Cape and me.

At Asylum, Bastard Assignments fresh and clean, London Dec 6th 2015.

„Tape for Terry“ in memory of Terry Fox`“Tape for children“

Tape for Terry

Performance

Akademie der Künste Berlin

29.11.2015

Nachdem mein Publikum Platz genommen und die Kopfhörer aufgesetzt hat, beginne ich mit meiner Performance, die sich zwischen physikalischem Experiment, Instrumentenbau und musikalischer Komposition abspielt. Unterschiedliche Gegenstände und Materialien, die auch in Terry Fox` Arbeiten eine Rolle spielen, werden von mir verwendet: Gläser, Löffel, Kerzen, Streichhölzer, Schüsseln, Metall, Wasser, Mehl u.a..

Wie in Fox` „Tape for children“ lasse ich die Materialien in Versuchsanordnungen aufeinander treffen.Leiseste Geräusche werden wie unter dem Mikroskop vergrößert und einzelne Elemente werden nach und nach zu Instrumenten verknüpft, die wiederum auf dem Tisch zu einem Klang-System anwachsen. Das Bauen dieses Systems ist selbst auch schon Klang, der Aufbau des Versuchs bereits seine Umsetzung.

Das Publikum beobachtet mich dabei wie ich das „Tape for Terry“ drehe. Alles, was ich an Versuchsanordnungen zusammen baue, wird gefilmt. Meine Performance wird dokumentiert, gleichzeitig ist die Dokumentation auch die Performance selbst.

Das Video wird hinterher nicht nur hier veröffentlicht, sondern auch jedes Jahr am 10. Mai (Terry Fox`Geburtstag) an eine Wand im öffentlichen Raum projiziert.

Little Things is a series of short examinations, each dealing with a different musical reality, combining acoustic and electronic media, voice and keyboard, accordion and synthesizer or accordion and field recordings. We are starting from the different possibilities and perspectives of the interior and exterior spaces of our instruments and use the inside space of the accordion as a resonating cavity for a loudspeaker as well as the interior and exterior sounds of the venue we are playing in.

broadcasted on HR2 Kultur, 10.10.2015, 23:05

happy accidents contains recordings of lectures by Helmut Lachenmanns at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse 1982 and 2005 and recordings of my own voice as well as found footage of different sound-contexts.

Caution: In this piece I use ASMR. ASMR stands for „autonomous sensory meridian response“ and is a phenomenon that causes pleasant tingles in your head. There are more than 1,5 million youtube-videos in which ASMR-artists try to trigger these tingly sensations by producing microphone-amplified silent sounds, like whispering, hair brushing, crinkling or cracking noises.

The sounds in this composition may have an impact on your body. If you feel tingles -starting in your head, going down the spine- you may be ASMRsensitive und shouldn`t listen to this piece more than 3 times in a row because it can cause conditions of confusion and uncontrolled muscle-tremors.

"Bauvorhaben" für Flöte und Video

UA 11.7.2015, Kunstverein Hannover, Musik21 Festival

Flöte: Atsrid Schmeling

Performance at hörraum.1 Witten (6.6.2015)

ASMR yourself -Trailer-

visit us at Akademie der Künste on 22nd+23rd of May and get tingled!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1575499859396977/

more about ASMR yourself: https://www.facebook.com/ASMRyourself?fref=ts

documentation (HAU 1, Berlin, 30.+31.3.2015):

"Copy!"

Performance, 29.11.2014, Fluxus+ Museum Potsdam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response

"Zu spät für das Privatleben", UA 19.11.2014, Ensemble ascolta, Wien Modern

CAMERABOXING

with Tomomi Adachi

http://cameraboxing.tumblr.com/

We box our video camera, why don't you?

We, Neele Hülcker and Tomomi Adachi are creating our own youtube-phenomenon! It is called „cameraboxing“. It is a reaction to the popular „unboxing“-videos in which people unbox products they just bought. (For example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcobpxwWgjY)
We would like to invite you to contribute with a video to the cameraboxing-phenomenon.
There are only a few rules:
-box your camera without talking.
-you can use any kind of camera (also your simple laptop-camera) and any boxing-materials.
Here is our first cameraboxing:

Works for accordion solo

"Sammlungen -Konzentrate, Leerstellen, Reste" 

UA 24.5.2014, Ensemble Garage, Kolumba Museum Köln

For some time I collect something I call „musical concentrations“. These are for example recordings or just sound-memories of sound-arrangements in layers or sound-combinations that I come across with often: language-sounds, sounds of machines, sounds of crowds, atmospheric noise, or even „visual sounds“ like movements that can easily be associated to have a certain sound. A lot of these sounds can be described as a big density of informations that overlay with themselves and build a mixture with its single parts being hardly recognizable.

Another field in my sound-collections are basic modules or raw elements in sound-organisations like long notes, repetitions, scales or glissandi. A sub-group of these basic modules contains basic conditions for perceiving something as music or as belonging to a piece of music. I ask myself which frames have to be staged and how it might be possible to play with phenomenons of perception and classification.

In this piece I let elements of these collections react with each other. 

"Sidekick" for 4 performers

Ensemble Radar (Ninon Gloger, Jonathan Shapiro, Felix Kroll) und Hermann Heisig

UA 17.5.2014 Klangrauschen, St. Petri Lübeck

"Eva und Neele" for accordion and video,

Eva Zöllner, accordion

UA 23.11.2013 Klangrauschen, Essigfabrik Lübeck

„Eva und Neele“ contains sound-recordings made by Eva Zöllner during her nomadic life as an accordionist travelling nonstop (recordings of travel- organisations, of airports, of her practising, of the soundscapes of the cities she travels to). It also consists of video-recordings that were made during excursions that I made together with Eva Zöllner: We went to public spaces with different social environments and sound-structures and tried to find ways to react acoustically and visually on the various dispositions of the places.

Travelling together, going outside into the unknown and leaving space for accidents to interact with, built a basic part of the development of the piece.

"Mitarbeit" for ensemble,

mam. manufaktur für aktuelle Musik 

UA 10.11.2013 Klangwerkstatt Berlin, Kunstquartier Bethanien

"Norbert K. Jeder Tag ist ein G. Heimatexpress. Powerplay" for 2 performers,

Duo LUXA, UA 11.5.2013, Blurred Edges Festival, Gedok Hamburg

"Plastik und Mutterboden"

Ensemble ascolta

"copy myself", Performance, 27.7.2012, open space, Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2012.

My performance „copy myself“ is a product, an intermediate result and a work process of my artistic research about embarrassment and empathetic embarrassment.

"Luci und Neele", Hörspiel, UA Mai 2012, Musikhochschule Dresden 

"TAGE" Lebensprojekt

(2011-?)

Life-long-project with Elisabeth Hager.

We bound ourselves by contract to record ourselves speaking out the date of the day everyday until the end of our lives. Once in a year we make an exhibition with the recorded dates we made till then.

We are interestet in different aspects. On the one hand the existentialistic aspect: with this project we directly engage with our whole life. The time of our project and our lifetime become one, the idea becomes part of our life, every day anew. We start out from the very personal and intimate, from our own voice, and point to something basic, concerning every person in the world: the expiring of lifetime and physical decline. Art and life melt into each other by necessity: the rest of our lives will be influenced by this project and our everyday life is present on the recordings: one can hear sensitivities in our voices, background noises and the changing color of our voices through the ages. 

Documentation of the date-collection 8.6.2011-22.12.2013 at ohrenhoch, Weichselstraße 49, Berlin, am  22. und 29.12.2013

Documentation of the date-collection 8.6.2011-5.1.2013 im ohrenhoch, Weichselstraße 49, Berlin, am  6.1. und 13.1.2013