HALLE K Biography

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  USB flash drive "Kühlwasser", Halle K Performance Videos 2024 ➟ Release 2026


HALLE K was founded 1984, in the empty factory hall "K" in Bürglen, close to the lake of Konstanz, in Switzerland.
  Musicians and artists
from Zurich to Düsseldorf, developed the shared idea of creating performances for all senses. We work as a team on projects with a varying cast of musicians and artists to act with multimedia-projections and sound in live-performances. Creating experimental sound ranging from noise and techno to pop influences, using tape machines, samplers, harmonium, as well as conventional and self-built instruments. Video, film and slide projections, overhead projectors, scent, light and pyrotechnics interact with the actions of musicians and performers.
We regularly invite collaborators to integrate their own performances or actions into the overall work.

PERFORMANCES:
The first concert took place as part of the art exhibition "Bellevue", 1984 in Kreuzlingen. Since then, we have appeared in a wide range of contexts, including galleries, churches, public recreation areas and conventional concert stages. Performances with the cabaret "Götterspass", for the "Theater Off" Genf, the Open Air "Ereignis-Liesberg" and during the art exhibition "Alles und noch viel mehr", Art Museum Bern. International and regional performances have taken place at venues such as the “Noisestructur Festival” Ravensburg, the "Ratinger Hof" Düsseldorf, "de Fabriek" Eindhoven, "eg@l", "Neue Börse", gallery "Alexander Hodel" and "Kupper Modern" Zurich, "Shedhalle" Frauenfeld, "Macelleria d’Arte", "Klang und Kleid", "Kunsthalle", "medialounge" and "AnStadt98" St. Gallen, "Kunstraum" and "Kult-X" Kreuzlingen i.a..
HALLE K has also performed in political and socially engaged settings, including events supporting autonomous cultural spaces and protests against infrastructure projects such as highways and prisons.

PRODUCTIONS:
Tape Cassettes:
1984 "Glas und Metall", self production.
1985 "Grünes Gold", production "ddd" Bonn BRD. 1986 "Heartbeat" self production.
1987 "The Sampling Sampler" , Lux Noise Produktion.
1989 "Schall und Wahn", 1992 "triggered" and 1993 "lemonsand", in self production.

Vinyl-Records and CDs:
1987 "1990", Sampler against new prisons, pyramid records.
1988 "HALLE K", Ex Libris records.
1997 "SKAMPLER 3", phonag records, Rote Ernte (our only ska).
2000 "inter-faces", CD-ROM in self production.
2019 "Resist Entropy", Vinyl EP, sampler, lustpoderosa production.

VIDEO, USB flash drives, DVD's, tapes, videofiles and www:
1985 "Glas und Metall", "Ignoramus", performance in the "Big Apple" Zürich, production "Diaton" ETH Zürich.
1986 "Steine und Messer", event "Alles und noch viel mehr" of the Art Museum Bern, production "Petson Video" Bürglen.
1987 "Blinde Tiere", concert in the Rote Fabrik Zürich.
1990 "Schall und Wahn" tour, production "Magic Camera" Zürich.
1991 "Löffel", 1993 "Zitronensand", 1994 "Klang und Kleid", 1995 "Muster" and "guinea-pig", Kunsthalle St. Gallen.
1996 "interface", 1996 "Konstruktion der Persönlichkeit", 1996 "der Auftrag" and 1997 "warten", "@if_finger".
TV broadcasts: "Fri-son" 1988 by "SRF1", "Kunsthalle" 1995 by "Züri 1" and " media lounge " 1997 by "Star TV".
2012 Double DVD, 3 hours performance videos from 1984 – 1997.
2016 "I breathe you in", 2018 "Plastiklöffel", shed in the Eisenwerk Frauenfeld.
2019 "whispering water", "landing", Rhizom Festival, Rote Fabrik Zürich, complete show, 56 min.
2021 DVD "einmal für immer", publisher ArtAdventures. DVD launch Performance in the "Kult", Max Frisch Bad Zürich.
2022 "Bang", Tinguely museum park, Basel. 2023 "vergessen", K3000, Zürich.
2024 Excerpts from the "Kühlwasser" performances: Das letzte Schiff, Gallery "Kupper Modern" Zürich, Zeitgeist and versprochen, "Klang und Kleid" St. Gallen,
Labyrinth, Minimum Somethings and Kühlwasser, "Kult-X" Kreuzlingen, Kernschmelze, shed Eisenwerk Frauenfeld.
Performance videos, self-production.

Performance Video's   ▶   HALLE K channel


More information:

2026,   USB-Stick "Kühlwasser", Halle K performance videos 2024

2024, "Kühlwasser" performances: November, shed Eisenwerk Frauenfeld. May, Gallery Kupper Modern Zürich.
January, Kult-X Kreuzlingen. December 2023, Klang und Kleid St. Gallen, Doku.

2022, Bang Bang, Performance Histories, exhibition project, museum Tinguely Basel.
Performance All Day Long, Interview, more Information in the Mediathek.
Videostill prints exhibition and DVD's in the Kulturbüro Zürich.

2021, DVD "einmal für immer", with newly edited Halle K videos,
from the years 1984 – 1997, Release 2021, publisher ArtAdventures, Art on DVD.
  DVD launch with performance in the gallery "Kult", Max Frisch Bad Zürich.

2019, "Resist Entropy", Compilation Vinyl EP, Lustpoderosa production,
   short preview, link to Schrei and Ignoramus

  HALLE K show (the movie, 56 min) at the Rhizom Festival, in the Rote Fabrik Zürich.

2018, "Preferred Videotapes" ShedBar, performance and projections with Halle K,
Eisenwerk Frauenfeld. Thurgaukultur Magazin, Videos "Plastiklöffel" and "making of".

2016, HALLE K workshop, "Ich atme Dich ein / I breathe you in", Eisenwerk Frauenfeld.
interactive performance within the international artproject, "Meer Teilen: Buen Vivir", Video "Kali".

2012, Double DVD, 180 minutes Halle K performance videos from 1984 – 1997.
Reason for this DVD was the book project, "heute und danach", the Swiss Underground Music Scene of the 80's,
from Swiss Punk & Wave Records, thanks to Lurker Grand and André Tschan.


2000, "inter-faces" CD-ROM at the International Media Art Festival "VIPER".
Have a look at a html excerpt of "inter-faces":











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