Re:inventing Charlotte

Ideas, findings and inspirations about Charlotte Moorman. Excerpts from my research grant from the Deutsche Musikrat, March-June 2023. Known as the ‘topless cellist’ and the ‘Joan of Arc of New Music’, Charlotte Moorman (1933-1991) is a person (an image?!) on whom many fantasies and preconceived notions have been projected….

Sonic Ocean

A dive into the sounds of the underwater world 17th – 19th November 2022Hospitalkirche Stuttgart From 17th to 19th November 2022, cellist and concert designer Céline Papion immerses the Hospitalkirche in Stuttgart into the sea. Sonic Ocean creates an informative and poetic programme that allows the audience to experience…

Sounds of Maze

Saturday, 3 September – 18:30Post of Treasure Hill Artist Village – Taipei Tickets reservation on: artistvillage.org+ Open Rehearsal and Artist Talk on Saturday, 27 August – 14:00 & 15:00 The very first thing I did in Treasure Hill was to get lost!The village is really not huge, but the…

Artist-in-Residence at the Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei

…yes I know, this post sounds like a déjà vu… and it is indeed, because I had announced this project in 2019! But then came a little problem of global scope called Covid-19! Complete closure of the island: everything cancelled.And now finally, thanks to the perseverance and support of…

Ceasing time

Exchanging with international artists is an important part of my work. Two years ago, I was selected as a cellist to participate in an artistic residency at Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei. My aim was to discover the contemporary music scene in Taiwan and to develop a project…

Loose Associations

SA. 9.04.2022 | 19:30 – LOOSE ASSOCIATIONS – Live Konzert bei der Reihe “out of the box”,Rathaus Leonberg Belforter Platz 1 | 71229 LeonbergTickets auf www.leonbergtickets.reservix.de Fr. 22.10.2021 | 20:00 – LOOSE ASSOCIATIONS LIVESTREAM des Stückes von Joseph Michaels Wollen Sie mal hören, wie Gerhard Richter Farbmassen über die Leinwand schiebt oder ein minimalistisches…

Ein Schaf fürs Leben – DERNIERE!

Junge Ensemble Stuttgart PREMIERE on 22 November 2008DERNIERE on 24 Mars 2022 In life there are first times that are imprinted in our heads, at best in our hearts. And there are last times, too. Tomorrow will be a very special last time for me. Tomorrow, after 14 years,…

The time limits of dust

Less known than Beckett, Kafka or Camus, Daniil Kharms (also known as “Charms”, “Harms” or “Chorms”) is considered a pioneer of the literary movement of the absurd and belongs to the “great family of the funny desperates” . His prose work consists mainly of short vignettes in which irony,…

Konzert @Internationales Digitalkunst Festival

Cello, electronics, pictograms and you FRIDAY 26th November 2021 – 8 pmWhite Noise Club – Eberhardstr. 35, 70173 StuttgartAs part of the Internationales Digitalkunst Festival Programm:I-lly Cheng (*1984 – Taipeh Taïwan) – Yours Mine for a performer with any instrument, voice and flexible tape (Live-UA)Jesse Ronneau (*1974 – Chicago,…

Recherche “Sonic Ocean” – Musikfonds Scholarship

“My father, when I was a kid, created a movie, very well known, which has put the ocean in everybody’s home, called “the silent world” {1955}. While it was pretty silent then, the big difference between the past and today is that we’ve created a lot of noise. I…