States of being, transitions, transformations – between enduring, releasing, opening up; between swirling fantasies of incapacity and self-analytical disintegration. Undergoing the endless movements between the embodied and the conceptual, braving the ever-futile attempt to grasp the unnameable in the primordial stream of signs. These processes lie at the core of the 10 minimalist poems of morning songs.
Translated sonically and visually, they become a game, an existential one at that, of intra-actions between light and shadow, (re)inventing and tearing apart, murmuring and rustling. A series of transmedial afterlives: a poetry cycle reincarnated as a series of drawings reborn as a sound performance reanimated as a video art piece. <-- You are here.
Concept: Vadim Keylin, Daniel Kupferberg, Theda Weber-Lucks
With: Daniel Kupferberg (drawings, projections), Sofia Borges (percussion), Theda Weber-Lucks (voice), Vadim Keylin (poetry, voice) & Werner Dafeldecker (electronics)
Filmed by Elmar Kaiser, edited by Daniel Kupferberg & Theda Weber-Lucks
Performed at ACUD (Berlin) 18.02.2024. Video first exhibited at hinterconti (Hamburg) in July 2025.
The project is part of the subhteme Unruly Forms – Experiments in the Poetic Wild.
Author
Vadim Keylin
Vadim Keylin is a poet and scholar currently based in Hamburg. He holds a PhD in sound studies and in 2021-2025 was a research associate in the ERC project “Poetry in the Digital Age”. His creative interests concern the relationships between text and sound: from verse prosody to sound poetry and text scores. He has published two poetry books and a number of journal collections in Russian and English and staged intermedia poetry projects at venues and festivals across Europe.
Author
Theda Weber-Lucks
Theda Weber-Lucks is a vocal performer, music educator and musicologist. She studied literature and musicology in Munich and received her doctorate in Berlin in 2005 on “Vocal Performance Art as a New Musical Genre”. The focus of her artistic research is experimental music, sound poetry and vocal performance art. She lives and works in Berlin, where she heads the department of New Music and Sound Art at the Leo Kestenberg Music School.
Author
Daniel Kupferberg
Daniel Kupferberg works in Berlin and on the road. His multifarious interests and investigations range from works on paper and in textiles to photography/video, architectural/landscape interventions, the organising and curating events and exhibitions, text weavings+publications, memory merging archives, and silence. Thematically, the works deal with ecological and interspeciary concerns, language and (external/internal) human ergonomics. Works have been shown at various art institutions, festivals and public spaces across Europe as well as in Brazil, Mexico and Philippines.
