TONSPUR_LIVE_STREAM Artists in Isolation [17] KAREN WERNER & ALWYNNE PRITCHARD Live from Bergen

Sunday, 21 Nov 2021 17:00 – 18:00 [CEST]

In cooperation with Q21/MQ by KAREN WERNER incl. a Q & A session after the performance.

Karen Werner is a radio artist and sociologist who moved to Bergen in 2020 and has recently made radio pieces for MÆKUR, Wave Farm, RUMMUR_Radio, RadioArt106FM and USMARadio. In 2016, she launched Strange Radio, a series of radio compositions, sound installations and live performances about Holocaust postmemory. Her work has been supported by Tonspur Kunstverein Wien, MuseumsQuartier Wien, studio das weisse haus, Kone Foundation, Kunstradio, Hemera Foundation and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. In 2019-2020, Karen was the Inaugural Radio Artist Fellow at Wave Farm in New York. Karen is a PhD artistic research fellow at KMD, the University of Bergen. In November 2017 Karen Werner was Artist-in-Residence at Q21/MQ and composed TONSPUR 76 HAUS, part I: Covenant of the Tongue, 2017 for the TONSPUR_passage.

Alwynne Pritchard is a British composer, vocalist, actor and writer based in Bergen. In her music and performances she explores relationships between musical expression and the human voice and body. She has appeared as an actor, vocalist and physical performer in a number of stage productions, as well as directing and developing choreography for her work. In 2015, she formed the music-theatre company Neither Nor with her partner Thorolf Thuestad.

Unusual times require unusual measures. To support our artists, we are launching this new series: TONSPUR_live sets in times of COVID-19 The artists play a set via video live stream on YouTube and answer your questions.

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