Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf

Ingrid Kaufman

In her work “Ingrid Kaufman, op. 1 – Priamel: Allegorie der Träumenden” (“Ingrid Kaufman, op. 1 – Priamel: Allegory of the Dreamers), Maria Wildeis reinterprets one of her own short stories, written in 2021 as part of the publication for the On Cologne e.V. festival. In the premiere of the piece in January 2023, the sounds of a bathtub (interpreted by Fabian Jung) were combined with the church interior of St. Gertrud in Cologne and the organ installed there by Maria Wildeis, by way of electronics and a multi-channel sound system (8-channel speaker configuration and structure-borne sound sensor).

Somewhere in the space between art discourse and self-doubt, Ingrid Kaufman prepares for the performance of a new piece centered on bathtubs. The performance is conceptualized as a scene whose visual interventions were determined by the sculptor Katharina Maderthaner.

The project was created during the artist’s time in the Klang und Realität master’s program at the Institute for Music and Media at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Grimm and Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling.

Concept, artistic direction, and electronics: Maria Wildeis
Installation, visual interventions: Katharina Maderthaner
Instrumentalist, performance: Fabian Jung
Technical assistance and organ: Sebastian Fecke Diaz
Graphics, design: Sebastian Wulff Bild
Editing, lighting: Luis Neuenhofer