On the occasion of the closing of the exhibition Oooooooo-pus, artist Katalin Ladik will be returning to Aachen for a final performance. Together with her long-time collaborator, the sound and performance artist Zsolt Sőrés aka Ahad, the artist will present her phonic poetry as part of an electro-acoustic experimental music concert.
Katalin Ladik and Zsolt Sőrés have been working together for over 20 years, among other things, as part of the group project Spiritus Noister (with the sound poet Endre Szkárosi).
Zsolt Sőrés aka Ahad (b. 1969 in Budapest, Hungary) has been active since the early 1990s as a composer, improviser (viola, voice, electronics), sound and intermedia artist. He has been living in Berlin since he was awarded the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program fellowship in Sound Art and Music in 2021. Sőrés has been teaching at the Electronic Music Media Art Department at Liszt Ferenc University of Music in Budapest since 2014. Among others he organized experimental music festivals and sound art series between 1995 and 2011 in Budapest (Pause-Sign Festival; Relative /Cross/Hearings etc.). In 2014 he also curated the first international sound installation art exhibition in Hungary at Kunsthalle Budapest (Sound Art – On the Edge of Perceptibility). He often collaborates with artists from other artistic fields and disciplines. His current projects: Ahad (solo), trio with Franz Hautzinger and Kazuhisha Uchihashi, Zappi W. Diermaier’s faust, Un-garians duo with André Vida, formations with Yorgos Dimitriadis, Nicola L. Hein, Hilary Jeffery, Andrea Parkins, Matt Rogalsky, Richard Scott, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Ute Wassermann among many others. He runs his own label Hinge Thunder since 2020.
Katalin Ladik (born 1942 in Novi Sad) is a poet, visual artist and actress. Her visual and acoustic poetry, performances and body art are based on the intermedial reinterpretation of body and language, sound and visuality. Since the late 1970s she has been involved in several international exhibitions, most recently at Manifesta 14 in Pristina (2022), documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens (2017), Shedhalle Zurich (2018) at IVAM Valencia (2019). Her works can be found in the collections of the Tate, the MoMA in New York and the MACBA in Barcelona.
Image: Rudolf Szilágyi
