One Woman/One Skin
January 11-14 / times vary each day * Sign up for a time slot

One Woman/One Skin is an interactive installation for copper, skin, loudspeaker, touch, wires and matter. One Woman/One Skin is a performance for an uncomfortable audience member.

Regardless of its presentation dates, it is an ongoing performative project for my skin, and I am just a documenter and a causal factor. Regardless of its presentation dates, it is an ongoing performative project for my skin in which an uncomfortable audience member will be part of for a short while and takes a journey with me through the machine on skin.

Skin is the biggest organ of the human body.
Skin is the visible border of a physical human entity.
Skin is sensitive to touch and temperature.
Skin is vulnerable to mosquito bites, environmental irritations, and digestive errors.
Skin transmits sound waves into our body.
Skin makes us humans.?

My skin appears to have unknown and anonymous reactions toward everything and thus needs an extra studious care routine preventing its collapses and disappearances.

Or so it seems.

I have a close relationship with my skin.
Even though it is playing tricks and pulling pranks on me.

Kris Kuldkepp is a Hamburg-based Estonian free improviser performing on double bass, bass guitar, and electronics. She is a feminist performer and artist currently completing doctoral studies at the Hamburg University of Applied Science and Hamburg University of Music and Drama. She is a research fellow in the Kinetics in Sound and Space research group focusing on spatial sound, free improvised music, and posthumanism. She is an active soloist and ensemble performer and has performed at festivals such as StimmeX, Blurred Edges Festival, Piksel, Tallinn Music Week, and Estonian Music Days. In addition to her solo work Kris has several collaborative projects, such as Double Bird free improvisation quartet (with Lorena Izquerdo: voice, Aziz Lewandowski: cello, and Felix Mayer: trombone); the quartet EMN (with Christoph Funabashi: guitars, Felix Mayer: trombone, Heiner Metzger: clarinets, sound table, objects) concentrating on performing graphic scores and performative compositions, and the duo Bad Groupy (with Jeff Surak) which explores improvised and constructed sound art. Kris is a close collaborator of opera director Lisa Pottstock with whom she develops feminist performances focusing on finding new ways of dealing with body, materiality, and sound. She has given various lectures and workshops on interactive audio technology as well as improvisation. She is a co-curator of the Biannual International Symposium on Sonic Art and Spatial Audio KLINGT GUT! KLG in Hamburg, Germany.