7 Winds

4 March 2022 – 28 May 2023

7 Winds is an open-ended curatorial project that started on March 4, 2022 and will end on May 28, 2023. The title derives from a story we once heard on the seven names given to winds in Senslerdeutsch, a Swiss German dialect: names that, together with the dialect itself, are gradually disappearing.

7 Winds will look at different aspects of languages, particularly the loss of concepts in vernacular languages and the implication of translation on meaning and feeling. Could we still feel a particular wind once we can no longer name it? The project was initiated by Kabelo Malatsie, who invited Camilla Paolino and Julia Künzi to join her.

Program:

Harmony (Martina Buzzi) with Monika Stalder
Allison Grimaldi Donahue, with the authority of suddenness: listening for voices
26 May 2023, 7 pm
with cicchetti & cocktails & a playlist by Niram

Listening walk with Peter Streiff
19 March 2023, 2 pm, in German
Please sign up until the previous day: info@kunsthalle–bern.ch

Bewegungen und Dauern
Performance mit Conrad Steinmann (Aulas und Blockflöte), Lisa Mark (Klangregie) und Peter Streiff (Konzeption, Instrumente und Klangobjekte). Mitwirkende: Burkhard Friedrich, Sarah Giger, Rosemarie Soncini, Pit Therre.
24. März 2023, Türöffnung: 19 Uhr, Beginn: 19.30 Uhr

Idee Klang Notation Zeichen
Peter Streiff
25.2. – 26.3. 2023
Opening 24 February 2023, 6 – 9 pm

Performance with Memory Biwa and Robert Machiri
3 February 2023, 8 pm

Jacopo Belloni, Christian Nyampeta, Zineb Sedira, Suvani Suri
16 December – 29 January 2023

tinnitus tropic – traducziun e trumbetta
Flurina Badel, Manuel Mengis and Ruth Gantert
19 January, 6:30 pm
Flurina Badel and Manuel Mengis (Spoken Poetry Performance)
19 January, 7 pm
Reading and conversation on the poetry collection tinnitus tropic | tropischer tinnitus (Edition Howeg, Zurich), published at the end of December 2022, with Flurina Badel and translator Ruth Gantert.
The conversation will be held in German.

7 Winds in collaboration with 12 Norient Festival
13 January, 2023, 10 pm at Kunsthalle Bern
15 January, 2023, 11 am at Kellerkino

7 Winds reading room
18 October – 4 December, 2022
with a coffee station and contributions by Auawirleben Theaterfestival, Flurina Badel, Selina Bernet, Flo Bürki, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Iris Frauchiger, Allison Grimaldi Donahue, Annina Herzer, Julia Jost, Nicolette Kretz, Ursina Leutenegger, Martina M. Mächler and Anna Marcus

7 Winds cinema
15 October – 4 December, 2022
11 am – 6 pm
with films by Daniel Godínez Nivón, İpek Hamzaoğlu, Rangoato Hlasane, Jan Hofer, Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo, Chantal Kaufmann, Lou-Anna Ulloa del Rio and Jiajia Zhang

Daily program (Tuesday – Sunday)

11:15 am
Sesasedi sa Tsodio (Rangoato Hlasane, 2022, 16’4”)
Dreamwind (Daniel Godínez Nivón, 2022, 8’)
Imagine Language (Chantal Kaufmann, 2022, 9’)
Fortunately, Gone (Lou-Anna Ulloa del Rio, 2022, 10’16”)

12 pm
Beautiful Mistakes (after LB) (Jiajia Zhang, 2022, 8’58’’)
Groundwork (Jan Hofer, 2019, 23’14”)
Undead Voices (Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo, 2019/ongoing, 36’)
Koridor (İpek Hamzaoğlu, 2017, 13’17”)

1:30 pm
Despina (İpek Hamzaoğlu, 2021, 11’)
Irigaray (Chantal Kaufmann, 2021, 4’40”)
Untitled (After Love) (Jiajia Zhang, 2021, 16’26”)

2:15 pm
Sesasedi sa Tsodio (Rangoato Hlasane, 2022, 16’4”)
Dreamwind (Daniel Godínez Nivón, 2022, 8’)
Imagine Language (Chantal Kaufmann, 2022, 9’)
Fortunately, Gone (Lou-Anna Ulloa del Rio, 2022, 10’16”)

3 pm
Beautiful Mistakes (after LB) (Jiajia Zhang, 2022, 8’58’’)
Groundwork (Jan Hofer, 2019, 23’14”)
Undead Voices (Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo, 2019/ongoing, 36’)
Koridor (İpek Hamzaoğlu, 2017, 13’17”)

4:30 pm
Despina (İpek Hamzaoğlu, 2021, 11’)
Irigaray (Chantal Kaufmann, 2021, 4’40”)
Untitled (After Love) (Jiajia Zhang, 2021, 16’26”)

The History of Breathing
Poster series by Allison Grimaldi Donahue
18 October – 4 December, 2022

14 October, 2022, 5 pm
Performance by Allison Grimaldi Donahue
The History of Breathing

–Enchura–
Marcela Calderón Andrade
20 August – 25 September 2022

19 August 2022, 6.30 pm
Performance Yiyo le by NoBuntu Mhlambi

12 August 2022, 6.30 pm
Performance Ayiyiyo by NoBuntu Mhlambi

Act 3
Martina M. Mächler in collaboration with Ludwig Schilling
25 June – 7 August 2022

18 June 2022, 6 – 8 pm
Performances by Lara Dâmaso and Donna Kukama

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