^{Klamotten, Klimatten, Klangmitten}

^{Eine Aktion. Ein Upcycling der besonderen Art.}
^{mit anne wellmer

for english please scroll down}

_{Kunstwochen für Klima und Umwelt in Karlsruhe 28.4.-21.5.2023}
WOCHE 1 : KLEIDUNG & KLIMA 2.-7.05.23

Wir bitten um Anmeldung bis zum 23. April 2023.

Sie lieben Geräusche? Machen Sie mit! Wir laden ein - gross und klein, jung und alt, alteingesessen und neu hinzugezogen - gebrauchte Textilien in Klangobjekte umzuwandeln. Nähen Sie Ihre eigenen knisternden Stofftiere, Lauschkissen, Taschenraschler und Hörfiguren.

Für diesen Workshop verwandeln sich die Räume der Gedok in Karlsruhe vorübergehend in eine Nähwerkstatt. Aus mitgebrachten Textilien und Knöpfen werden Musikinstrumente genäht, abstrakte und figürliche Formen, die mit gefundenen Materialien gefüllt werden. So entstehen individuelle Klangobjekte, die bei entsprechender Berührung zum Klingen kommen, rascheln, quietschen, knallen, knistern, klappern oder knirschen, Objekte zum Hinhören, zum selber dran Lauschen und zum Verschenken, um einander Klangmassagen zu geben und das eigene Klang-Instrumentarium zu erweitern.

Die auf diese Weise entstandenen Klangobjekte werden bis zur gemeinsamen Performance am Sonntag 7.Mai in der Galerie der Gedok gezeigt.

Die Teilnahmegebühr ist gratis, wenn Kleidungsstücke zum Weiterverarbeiten mitgebracht werden. Wir bitten um Anmeldung bis zum 30. April 2023.

ENGLISH

Klamotten. Klimatten. Klangmitten.

Clothes. Climates. Sound Centers.

^{a unique upcycling campaign & performance installation

with anne wellmer}

_{art weeks for climate and environment in Karlsruhe 28.4.-21.5.2023}

WEEK ONE : CLOTHING & CLIMATE 2.-7.05.23

We ask for registration by April 23, 2023.

For this occasion Anne Wellmer will transform GEDOK's gallery space in Karlsruhe into a sewing workshop. From used textiles and second hand clothing, participants will create their own new garments, bags and vessels, which will be padded with found materials to create unique sonic objects. They will sound when moved and touched: rustle, squeak, pop, crackle, clatter and crunch.

The production of the objects takes place in the gallery accessible to visitors and visible to passers by while a performance installation will be growing day by day. On the last day of the week the participants will come together for a joint public performance within the installation.

The Context.

"If it hadn't been for the pandemic"... It's a strange phrase that has been with us for almost three years. Right before the outbreak of Covid19 in autumn 2019, there were large demonstrations around the world calling for a drastic reduction in the use of fossil fuels. Fridays for Future seemed to have reached mainstream society when desperate children and teenagers around the world brought their parents and grandparents onto the streets. For a short while the world seemed to be in turmoil, and suddenly there was hope that politics and business would have to give in and that something would actually change. But then came the pandemic at the beginning of 2020, and with it total standstill. Instead of a global change in the trade and the energy sector, everything suddenly fell flat. As a result Fridays for Future was suddenly silenced. Knocked Out.

Klamotten. Why Clothing?

Clothing protects humans against environmental influences such as heat and cold. Additionally clothing is used for non-verbal communication. Getting dressed is a visual composition of oneself. We dress and show ourselves to those around us, sending signals that indicate whether we want to be seen or left alone. The context within which we move determines whether a certain outfit stands out or not: in everyday life, someone who walks around the street in a glitter costume stands out, during carneval, those who are not in costume stand out.

Klimatten. How does the climate crisis relate to clothing?

The clothing industry has a significant impact on the environment and contributes to climate change. From the production of raw materials to the manufacturing process, the fashion industry consumes vast amounts of resources and energy, leading to greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution, and deforestation.

The production of textiles and clothing is one of the largest polluters in the world. Moreover, the fast fashion trend has lead to an enormous waste problem. The excessive use of synthetic materials such as polyester, which is derived from petroleum, also contributes to microplastics pollution in our oceans.

We all know that cheap fashion is often produced under appalling working conditions in the countries of the Global South. The cheap clothes have their price, but the price is not paid by us customers nor by the retail chains where we buy our clothes, but by the workers in the textile factories in India, Bangladesh and China.

One of the few options we have as individual consumers is wearing, repairing and recycling what we already have instead of throwing stuff away and replacing it with new cheap clothes.

Klangmitten. DIE AKTION. – A Unique Upcycling Campaign.

In the beginning of May, during the first of four Climate Art Weeks, Gedok's gallery space will be transformed into a sewing workshop with five sewing machines. We invite citizens of Karlsruhe - tall and small, young and old, long-established and newcomers - to bring along used textiles and second hand clothing to transform them into sonic objects and sounding garments of their choice. Textile donations will be upcycled by the participants on site. During the processing of the materials we will experiment and make sound recordings.

This will result in soft vessels, abstract and concrete forms - but also modified garments, bags, socks, gloves, stuffed animals, which we will fill with found materials, such as old plastic bags, crumpled paper, aluminium foil, small stones, dry leaves, wood wool, lentils, marbles or buttons. These fillings are hidden in the newly sewn vessels made of textile and presented as invisible and only audible treasures. Unamplified, these soft vessels can be used to give each other (quietly or with ear protection) acoustic sound massages. To amplify the fillings and make the sounding dry material housed in the soft vessels audible, contact microphones are also used and, if necessary, soldered on site itself. The objects are amplified to form instruments without soundboards.

Until the final performance at the end of the week, the newly created sound objects will be on display in the gallery, also visible from the street for passers by. On Sunday, all participants are invited to present their "Klangmitten" in a joint performance and to then take their objects home.