This event is wheelchair accessible.
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Once a month, Sylvi Kretzschmar and Rahel Kraft invite you to sing together and explore your own voice and how to amplify it! Using megaphones and microphones as instruments, along with rhythms, choral improvisation, and polyphonic songs, Rahel and Sylvi address queer-feminist themes such as time justice, pressure to perform, and the longing for breaks. Exercises in Lying Fallow creates a space for discussion about exhaustion, new beginnings, and resistance. No prior experience required.
The workshop will be held bilingually if needed. English speakers welcome!
October / January: extended with discussion
November / February: choir only
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https://www.sylvikretzschmar.com
Credits
By and with: Rahel Kraft und Sylvi Kretzschmar
Supported by: Fachausschuss Darstellende Künste BL/BS
Biography
Sylvi Kretzschmar works in the fields of performance art, documentary theater, and composition. She combines live art and concert performance—both as a solo artist and through collaborations: as artistic director of SIRENEN (Vienna) and MEGAPHONCHOR (Hamburg), as part of the duo SKILLS (Berlin/Vienna), and as a member of the band and activist collective SCHWABINGGRAD BALLETT (Hamburg). She has worked with, among others, FUNDUSTHEATER/THEATRE OF RESEARCH (Hamburg), SPLITTER ORCHESTER (Berlin), Sibylle Peters and GEHEIMAGENTUR (Hamburg), Rahel Kraft (Basel), PONI (Brussels), and the band DEICHKIND (Hamburg). Since 2023, she has led the theater workshop “Sound and Music” at DSCHUNGEL WIEN – Theaterhaus für Junges Publikum.
https://www.sylvikretzschmar.com/
Rahel Kraft is a sound and performance artist who works internationally at the intersection of installation and participatory events. As a LAB Artist for 2025/26, she explored underwater sound, breath-holding, sonic resistance, oxygen, plant photosynthesis, membranes, and porosity. She hosts workshops, open training sessions, and listening sessions.
Rahel collaborates with various artists, researchers, and communities, including the Japanese sound artist Tomoko Hojo and the German director Sylvi Kretzschmar. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Oto Museum in Zurich (2024), Ocean Space in Venice (2023), the KlangMoorSchopfe Festival (2023), and the Komaki City Library in Japan (2022). Her compositions have been released by Nonclassical (UK), Dasa Tapes (GR), and Line Sound Art Editions (L.A.).
