CRIPPLED SYMMETRIES — Busan

CRIPPLED SYMMETRIES

Im Rahmen des Busan International Contemporary Music Festival
Space One Z, Busan (South Korea)

Thursday, 30 October 2025

AnA Maria Rodriguez (ARG) / Juan Felipe Waller (MEX)
…make beauty out of debris…
for two perfomers, percussion, electronics and video projection

Anyone who experienced the 2001/2002 financial crisis in Argentina and the associated social phenomenon of cartoneros (cardboard and rubbish collectors) will understand the work of AnA Maria Rodriguez and Juan Felipe Waller primarily as a tribute to these people.

»…make beauty out of debris…« – under this title, the Argentinian/Mexican composer and performer team Rodriguez/Waller explores the cyclical from the perspective of upcycling. In the form of a three-dimensional soundscape, the artists recycle the sound of paper, self-built instruments, cardboard and packaging material that they find at the respective locations. These materials were once living forest, then consumables and waste – now they are used as instruments and reactivate the poetry inherent in their first life – nature.

At the centre of the performance are large, sculptural cardboard boxes that are collected and transformed to create different resonances. Cardboard boxes and similar recyclable waste materials can be found in supermarkets, shops and shopping centres all over the world.

AnA Maria Rodriguez, composition/live-electronics/performance
Juan Felipe Waller, composition/analogue-electronics-motors/performance
Jungyong Kang, traditional percussion
Thomas Bruns, sound/video

Weitere Infos: www.bicmf.org

Crippled Symmetries is a project by Ensemble KNM Berlin in cooperation with Busan International Contemporary Music Festival, Department of Musicology of the Free University of Berlin, Frequenz_Festival Kiel, Goethe-Institut Lima, Greek National Opera Alternative Stage, Kultur Büro Elisabeth, MaerzMusik / Berliner Festspiele and Studio Acht Taipei.
Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).
With the kind support of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
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