mare/Sun., 29 September 2024
Die Wald Liste
As part of BAW Bolzano Art Weeks
Where Talvera-Isarco confluence (next to Eurac / Druso Stadium area)
Time 6 pm
Sunday, September 29 at 6 pm, in an exclusive premiere, as part of the multi-year project FLUX – River interventions and explorations, Lungomare presents the performance of Gaia Giani’s Die Wald Liste, with the voice of Margareth Kammerer.
The performance takes place on the riverbank at the confluence of the Talvera and Isarco rivers.
Die Wald Liste is an invocation for the forest, inspired by the 1,000 terms that respond to the word Wald (forest) in the German Dictionary by the Brothers Grimm. Die Wald Liste is a narrated song for the trees, for the moss, for all the animals, for the air, and for all the sounds that belong to the forest and that we want to preserve—a spoken rhythm between the human voice and nature that becomes a dialogue of love. The Deutsches Wörterbuch is the largest and most comprehensive dictionary of the German language, begun by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm starting in 1838. It remained unfinished at the time of their death and was completed posthumously in 1961, following the guidelines of the first volumes written by the two philologists. The idea was to create a perfectly complete study: the entries include etymology, meanings, synonyms, dialectal forms, poetic words, totaling 330,000 entries and 32 volumes.
Gaia Giani lives and works in Milan. She graduated in philosophy with a thesis on Pina Bausch’s dance theater and trained as a visual artist, using various mediums such as video, photography, sound, and performance. The thematic core of her work is intimate poetics and its relationships with landscape and memory. Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions. In 2023, she created the sound performance Die Wald Liste in collaboration with musician Margareth Kammerer, with the official premiere on September 29, 2024, as part of BAW (Bolzen Art Week) with the Lungomare Bolzano association, within FLUX. An open rehearsal was held in October 2023 at CLER, Milan. In 2022, she produced Attraversare, a short film set in the Pollino National Park in Basilicata, a dream composed of collective memories and narrated in Albanian, presented at MUSME in Matera. In 2020, her work 132 Moons was featured at Filmmaker Festival and broadcast on Fuori Orario, RAI TRE. In 2019, she created the short film You Sleep Like a Stone, a single-shot sequence of a walk in the Ticino Park, which premiered at BX Gallery in Belfast, Filmmaker Festival, and CLER gallery. In 2017, La zona oscura – L’età bambina was screened at Cinema Cineteca Oberdan and Beltrade, a documentary on the mystery of childhood set in a small Montessori school. In 2015, she made Solo, a documentary about the French dance couple Dupuy, in which she explores the relationship between life and dance.
Margareth Kammerer is a singer, musician, and composer. She works as a solo artist and in various ensembles and projects. She creates original compositions, music for theater, film, and radio dramas. She regularly collaborates with musicians from the “real-time music” scene, exploring extended forms of singing and also works as a performer of pieces by other composers. Her artistic research focuses on form and sound, exploring the possibilities of extended and permeable song structures and the “multilayered” sound of the voice. She often draws inspiration for her works from modern and contemporary literary texts by authors such as E.E. Cummings, Anne Carson, Tchicaya U Tam’si, Virginia Woolf, and Clio Nicastro. She has participated in numerous festivals across Europe, the United States, and Japan. Her music has been published by labels in Germany, Italy, Belgium, France, and Austria, and her next solo project will be released in 2024 by the Japanese label “Ftarri.”
