Upcoming/Ongoing
I’ve released my 3D project “Place I Can’t Go”, it can be downloaded here for PC:
aleksslota.itch.io/place-i-cant-go
The music for “Place I Can’t Go” is also on Bandcamp:
aleksslota.bandcamp.com/album/place-i-cant-go
Video trailer https://vimeo.com/917218150
Past
September 6, 2024 18:00
“Street Meat” a new performance for the “Performance in der Kleinen Orangerie” event.
Kleine Orangerie am Schloss Charlottenburg
Spandauer Damm 22
14059 Berlin
August 31, 2024 18:00-20:00
Small new performance “A Little Pain” for the opening of “Winterschlaf” the last exhibition at Kleiner Raum für aktuelles Nichts.
Kleiner Raum für aktuelles Nichts
Graefestrasse 91 (Hinterhof)
Berlin 10967
July 19, 2024 21:00
New sound object and performance titled “Autocannon” for the 4th BRUITAL BERLIN FURORE at Backsteinboot.
Backsteinboot
Eiswerderstraße 16B
13585 Berlin
Facebook event
Non-facebook event
March 6, 2024 20:00
New sound performance at the Soma:Klang event, at the Make-up, Berlin, Germany
Make-Up Insta
Papierstr. 11
13409 Berlin
Facebook event
October 28, 2023
“Sex Pest”, a new voice performance at the Noise VS Poetry #2 event at Makroscope, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
45468 Mülheim an der Ruhr
Facebook event
September 13, 16, 23, 30 October 7, 14, 2023
World premiere of “Sculpting Inside” a 6 part performance developed with Florian Feigl. Including sound performances from bands Nashmeh and Sun Worship and musicians: Lars Ennsen, Robert Fisk, Heather Green, Joke Lanz, and Felix Müller Wrobel. Light design by Hanna Kritten Tangsoo.
Follow the Facebook page or Insatgram for updates
Venues:
Haus der Statistik
West Germany
4. Welt
Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Community.
March 18, 2023 16:00
New performance “Beyond Binary: Human-AI Relations” premiere at Coconat for the opening of the augmented reality walking trail featuring 5 newly commissioned art works. The performance title and description was written by AI and will involve the human artist working with various AIs to develop the action.
Coconat
Klein-Glien 25
14806 Bad Belzig
February 12, 2023
New sound performance at the brœk event, xxxster, Berlin, Germany
xxxster / xberg (schlesi)
Facebook event
September 2022
Residency at the Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway
August 19 + 21, 2022
New sound performance for a collaborative sound sculpture Cosmos #2 with Laure Catugier. Friday 19th at 19:00, and Sunday 21st at 15:00.
Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch
Wildenbruchstr.
12045 Berlin
July 21-30, 2022
My video performance “All I’m Thinking of Is You” will be shown at a screening in the Lumbung Lounge installation, a project by Guerilla Architects and Along the Lines, at the Stellwerk Galerie in the Kulturbahnhof Kassel, in parallel to Documenta 15.
Stellwerk Galerie in Kulturbahnhof
Rainer-Dierichs-Platz 1
34117 Kassel, Germany
Facebook event
July 2+3, 2022
I will present a new performance “This Could Be a Love Song” at the Temporary Home 2022, part of ruruHaus at Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany
temporary home 22
Kurt-Schumacher-Str 27
34117 Kassel, Germany
ruruHaus event
March 14, 2022 19:00
New vocal improvisation at the egæl event at Loophole, Berlin, Germany
Boddinstraße 60
12053 Berlin
Facebook event
November 2021
Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V. NEUSTART KULTUR grant
November 6, 2021
Solo voice performance at the Just Another Bruital Night event, ausland, Berlin, Germany
Facebook event
October 1-10, 2021
Performance residency and group actions in Dnipro, Ukraine
Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture
Крутогірний узвіз, 21
Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Ukraine 49000
Facebook event
July 26, 2021
New public performance for the Performance Crossings festival, in Berlin, Germany
July 20-22, 2021
Performance Crossings festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Facebook event
July 14, 2021
New sound performance, Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Facebook event
March 15-April 11, 2021
Rucka Artist Residency, Cēsis, Latvia
29.8.20 18:00-22:00
My video I Heard Shakespeare Wrote “King Lear” in Quarantine will be screened in Potsdam-Babelsberg as part of Kurze Filme im Pferdestall event, curated by Mirjami Schuppert and Sarah Goodrum.
22.8.20 11:00-18:00
I’m taking part in the Remote Art Practices Symposium in Prague, part of the Performance Crossings festival.
Studio Alta
Sokolovská 24/136
18600 Prague
Czech Republic
25.4 – 26.6.20
I Heard Shakespeare Wrote “King Lear” in Quarantine, new performance executed and presented at the Mengerzeile Atelierhaus m3 Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Here is the online exhibition: tippingpoint.aleksslota.com
Here is the physical exhibition:
Atelierhaus Mengerzeile
Mengerzeile 1-3
12435 Berlin
Finissage facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/275695826822177/
12-13.06.20 (new date and location due to covid-19)
Today’s Specials new performance for Performance Crossings 2020 festival, Prague, Czech Republic, executed in a public space in Berlin, Germany
01.12.19 16:00
“Deviant Order” performance for the Sonntag book launch at Café Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin, Germany
Café Kosmetiksalon Babette
Am Sudhaus 3
12053 Berlin
01.11.19 19:30
“No Dignity in Death” new performance at Acción!MAD performance festival in Madrid, Spain
Naves Matadero
Paseo de la Chopera, 14
28045 Madrid
Spain
10.08.19
“Uncanny Apocalypse” new sound performance for the Matters. Platform for Industrial Culture symposium, Kaunas, Lithuania
Sakramentas
Vilniaus g. 31
44286 Kaunas
Facebook event
26.7.19
Sound performance at the Sponge Sandwich Festival, West Germany, Berlin
07.07.19 13:00
“Lucky” durational public performance for the Interiors to Being festival, Berlin, Germany
I’ll perform in front of Rathaus Neukölln
Facebook event
29.06.19 14:00
Duo performance with Laure Catugier at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac part of Jeaune Creation, Paris, France
69 Avenue du Général Leclerc
93500 Pantin
France
Facebook event
21.06.19 20:00
“Sunless City” sound performance at ReTramp gallery, Berlin, Germany
Reuterstraße 62
12047 Berlin
Facebook event
14.06.19 19:00
“Sunless City” sound performance at ReTramp gallery, Berlin, Germany
Reuterstraße 62
12047 Berlin
Facebook event
12.06.19 21:00
Solo voice performance at Loophole, Berlin, Germany
Boddinstraße 60
12053 Berlin
Facebook event
22-25.4.19
“Pied Piper” public sound performances for the Art Without Audience festival in Ravensburg, Germany
Facebook event
05.04.19 21:00
“False Hope” sound performance presentation, along with Flora Morte, Tick-Suck, Natty Gray, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
03.04.19 15:00
“End of the World Blues” performance premier and artist talk at the University of Central Oklahoma, USA
Mitchell Education Center
Room 211
100 N University Dr
Edmond, OK 73034
Facebook event
23.01.19
Sound performance and artist talk at the In Parallel Spaces festival, Leipzig, Germany
Kunstraum nyg|west
Georg-Schwarz-Straße 8
04177 Leipzig
Facebook event
20.10.18 12:00-21:00
“Lovely Japanese Bags” durational solo performance at Gr_und
Seestr. 49
13347 Berlin
Facebook event
24.09.18 20:00
Performance for the opening of the Element.a project exhibition in Berlin, Germany.
Pohlstraße 37
10785 Berlin
Facebook event
23.08.18 20:00
Vocal improvisation with drummer Ryosuke Kiyasu, plus performances by:
Screaming It
TMS
Kamil K & Seht Zhan
Grid N & airone
Loophole
Boddinstraße 60
12053 Berlin
Facebook event
21.07.18 18:00
New sound performance titled “Domestic Communication” at the Tempting Failure festival in London, England.
Matthews Yard: Theatre
1 Matthews Yard
Croydon
CR0 1FF United Kingdom
30.06.18
New sound performance at Primal Uproar, on Ms. Stubnitz in Hamburg, Germany.
30-31.05.18
Premier of two new performances “Ticking Bomb” and “Verschärfte essen” at the Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem, Israel
02.05.18
Trio sound improvisation with Marie Takahashi and Yukari Misawa, Takasaki, Japan
29.04.18
Sound performance for the opening of Laure Catugier’s solo exhibition, Takasaki, Japan
26.04.18 19:30
Sound performance with Apocalypto, Usisi, and Kiyasu Orchestra, Tokyo, Japan
Asagaya TEN
2 Chome-1-5 Asagayakita
Suginami-ku, Tōkyō-to 166-0001
Japan
Facebook event
20.04.18 19:30
Duet sound improvisation with Marie Takahashi, Tokyo, Japan
Fourth Floor
3 Chome-48-6 Kōenjiminami
Suginami-ku, Tōkyō-to 166-0003
Facebook event
01.04.18 19:00
Sound performance with YOSHIMOTO Yumiko and Jonathan Saxon, Tokyo, Japan
Ftarri
Okano Bldg. B1 Floor
1-4-11 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033
17.03.18 20:00
“MILF” performance premier at Kleine Raum für aktuelles Nichts
Graefestrasse 91
10967 Berlin
Facebook event
29.11.17 20:00
Premier of a new sound performance at PIES andaluzyjski, Poznan, Poland.
PIES andaluzyjski
Nowowiejskiego 17
61-732 Poznan
Poland
Facebook event
11.11.17 20:00
Live sound performance at the Club der polnischen Versager
Club der polnischen Versager
Ackerstr. 168
10115 Berlin
Facebook event
9.11.17 19:00
“It Happened Here” publication launch, the program will include a public dialogue between Slota and fellow artist Patrick J. Reed.
KN – Raum für Kunst im Kontext
Skalitzer Straße 68
10997 Berlin
Facebook event
11.10.17 19:00
“Solidarity Born of Despair” performance premier in the frame of “Polenbegeisterungswelle – Cultural Topographies of Polish Berlin”
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Studio 1 (1st floor)
Mariannenpl. 2
10997 Berlin
Facebook event
17-27.9.17 10:00-18:00
“Becoming, or the Impossibility Of” five day durational performance series in Cagliari, Italy, in commemoration of Antonio Gramsci.
Giardini Pubblici (Link to exact location)
Cagliari, Italy
Facebook page of the event series
6.9.17 19:00
“Whipped Into Shape” new performance for the “Fremdkörpereinwirkung” exhibition at tête, Berlin.
tête
Schönhauser Allee 161A
10435 Berlin
Facebook event
4.8.17 17:00-18:00
Artist talk at the Transart Institute
Ufer Studios
Studio 12
Uferstraße 8
13357 Berlin
Event page
Facebook event
24.6.17 22:00
Sound performance curated by Liebig 12 hosted at XB Liebig
Liebigstraße
10247 Berlin
Facebook event
12.5 – 2.6.17
“It Happened Here” solo exhibition at Exgirlfriend gallery.
12161 Berlin
30.04.17 17:30
“Meat Puppet” performance premier at the Kunstansage event
Das junge Literaturhaus Lettrétage
Mehringdamm 61
10961 Berlin
Facebook event
07.04.17
“Incident” performance premier
DAF festival
Geneva, Switzerland
Facebook event
30.03.17 20:00
“Ordering Chaos” new performance for the Reflektor series
NorthEurope/Westgermany
Skalitzerstr. 133
10999 Berlin
Facebook event
12.12.2016
Video interview for SPOKEHUB
19.11.2016, 19:00
“Me Likey” performance premier
studio im HOCHHAUS
Zingster Strasse 25
13051 Berlin
Facebook event
11.11.2016 18:00-22:00
“House of the Lord” performance premier
Meinblau projektraum
Christinenstrasse 18-19
Haus 5
D,
10119 Berlin
Facebook event
23.10.2016, 14:00-18:00
“Everything, All the Time, Now!” performance premier, part of the Sonntag coffee and cake event.
Facebook event
30.08.2016
“Nothing’s Free” & “Snuff Out” performance premiers
Swab Fair
Barcelona, Spain
21.9-24.9.2016
“Bring Out the Gimp” sound performance premier at the “Neo Neo Dada” festival
Sophiensæle
Berlin, Germany
10.09.2016
New installation/performance for the “291. Dynamics of Chaos” event
The Academia Theater
Warsaw, Poland
8.07.2016 18:00-22:00
“TNU” mobile OKO sound performance, part of Artfest 2016 at:
HB55
Herzbergstr. 55
10356 Berlin
Facebook event
30.06.2016 12:00-22:00
“Party Hard!” an installation with expectations and hopes
Free Vodka / Free Music / Free Fun / Free
tȇte
Schönhauser allee 161A
10435 Berlin
Facebook event
27.04.2016 20:00
OKO performance featuring Any Pretty, within the installation by Stefan Reiss
Facebook event
Info in German
20.04.2016 14:00-20:00
I will re-perform/transform the work of Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen
14:00-20:00h performative installation with performance interventions (working session)
Grüntaler9
Grüntaler Straße 9
13357 Berlin
Facebook event
15.01.2016
Interview with RM Vaughan on Momus.ca
27.11.2015 12:00
“I’d Die for a Good Coffee” public performance
I need a good coffee. I’m willing to swim for it.
Ich brauche einen guten Kaffee. Ich bin bereit, dafür schwimmen.
6.11 – 11.12.2015
Curating sound performances for the exhibition “Underdog” and performing as OKO.
Performances:
Friday 06.11 20:00
Helmut Vutuc Lampshade
La Muerte Roja
JOKE LANZ
Thursday 10.12 20:00
Derek Holzer
Vinyl Horror
OKO + Any Pretty
Friday 11.12 20:00
Alex Pastore
Felix-Florian Tödtloff and Lars Ennsen Duo
Dr. Nexus
2.10.2015 22:00
OKO sound performance, featuring Kris Barnett on percussion
L‘espace de l‘espèce
HB55
Herzbergstraße 55
10365 Berlin
1.07.2015
“Without Hesitation” month long performance and public intervention.
29.05.2015 19:00-21:00
Exhibition of the performance documentation from the “Waiting for a Miracle” project.
Meinblau
Christinenstraße 18/19
10119 Berlin
Facebook event
Part of Month of Performance Art Berlin
Review of the performance by Philip Kevin Brehse
Interview by Göksu Kunak
27.05.2015 16:00
“Hermetic Circle” performance premier, part of “ErogateSurrogate Performance Series” a project by Ilya Noé
Meinblau
Christinenstraße 18/19
10119 Berlin
Facebook event
Part of Month of Performance Art Berlin
Review by Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen
15.05.2015 21:00
OKO “Snake Eater” sound performance
Erratum gallery
Böckhstr. 40
10967 Berlin
Facebook event
11.05-18.05.2015 12:00
“Waiting for a Miracle”
(waiting by the holocaust memorial)
Embassy of the United States of America
Pariser Platz 2
10117, Berlin
Part of Month of Performance Art Berlin
6.05.2015 19:00
“Tactful Dickhead” performance premier, part of “Netting the Work BERLIN”
ZKU – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik
Siemensstrasse 27
10551 Berlin
Facebook event
Part of Month of Performance Art Berlin
14.04-16.04.2015
Premiering two performances “Over the Mountains the Dream Comes Untrue” and “Dance Like Everybody’s Watching” at the Excentricités Performance Festival, Besançon, France
Facebook event
Facebook event #2
30.01.2015 18:00
For the launch party of the Emergency Index Vol. 3, the collective GWC, Investigators will re-perform/interpret my piece “Silence”, which appears in the book.
Facebook event
5.12.2014 20:00
Sampled grind terror, new incarnation of OKO, for the HTSUONIAATPTAIY #1 event.
Facebook event
1.11-30.11.2014
Residency at the Arteles Creative Center in Hahmajärventie, Finland.
30.09-30.10.2014
Solo exhibition at Tarleton State University, Texas.
19.09.2014 19:00
“Social Moment”, new durational performance for the opening of a pop-up gallery on Potsdamerstr. 71, during Berlin Art Week.
5 artists | 3 days | 1 storefront
Facebook event
9.08.2014, 19:00
“Denial” new performance at the Mila Kunstgalerie.
How do bodies react to love and nurturing, how do they react to violence and pain? How do I sublimate the violence I want to inflict? What is the toll on my body and mind?
“Denial” is a performance of real violence.
Facebook event
13.06.2014
OKO performance at the “Quiet Violence” exhibition/festival, with interactive visuals by J.E. Murphy of SCN9A. Sound artists curated by Aleks Slota and Robert Heim.
Facebook event
31.05.2014
Special acoustic OKO destruction for the closing party of Month of Performance Art Berlin.
Facebook photo album
Page on this website
Facebook event
30.05.2014
OKO performance at Random 10
Facebook event
3.05-24.05.2014
“High Risk of Recurrence” solo performance series. Every Saturday 12 noon at Alexanderplatz. Part of Month of Performance Art Berlin.
Facebook event
Review of the first performance (in German)
Review of the second performance (in English)
Review of the third performance and interview with me (in English)
19.04.2014
OKO performance with André Foisy of Locrian, at Mindpirates.
7.04.2014
OKO performance at Madame Claude
14.03.2014
Launch of the interactive web based video for the OKO song “Hoarfrost”. Site design and implementation by J.E. Murphy of SCN9A.
9.03.2014 14:00
“The Suppressed Speech of Wamsutta (Frank B.) James” solo speech performance, starts at exactly 2pm, lasts approximately 10 minutes.
Grünberger Straße 73
10245 Berlin
2.03.2014 14:00
“Arrival Speech of Ninoy Aquino” solo speech performance, starts at exactly 2pm, lasts approximately 5 minutes.
Grünberger Straße 73
10245 Berlin
23.02.2014 14:00
“Wintex-Cimex 83” solo speech performance, starts at exactly 2pm, lasts approximately 4 minutes.
Grünberger Straße 73
10245 Berlin
16.02.2014 14:00
“In the Event of Moon Disaster” solo speech performance, starts at exactly 2pm, lasts approximately 2 minutes.
Grünberger Straße 73
10245 Berlin
29.10.2013 19:30
OKO is performing in Stockholm, here is the Facebook event.
Here is the map
Here is the club
18.10.2013 19:00
“Analogue” exhibition with Justin Powell at the Vesselroom, opening Friday 18th at 19:00.
Vesselroom is located at:
Adalbertstr. 4
(at Kottbusser Tor, up the 1st floor walkway)
10999 Berlin
14.09.2013 22:30
“Inevitabilty” a web sound performance in collaboration with Fabio Campagna, part of Schwarzer Hund exhibition at HB55.
25.06.2013
Premier of a new video I did for Locrian for their new album Return to Annihilation available on Relapse records.
10.05-17.05.2013
“Silence” premier of a week long performance during the Month of Performance Art-Berlin, at ReTramp Gallery.
3.05.2013 19:00
“Peradam” performance, part of the “Investigating Phenomenology” exhibition by Giovanni Casu.
26.04.2013 19:30
“Lifeworld/Lebenswelt” premier of web based performance during the PARRHESIA exhibition at CORPO6.
Also the same evening premier of “Inevitabilty” a web sound performance in collaboration with Fabio Campagna.
04.2013
OKO album “5730±40” is available for purchase from Land of Decay.
24.03.2013 17:00
“Mountain Building” premier of a new performance during the Usartberlin stammtisch at HB55.
1.03.2013 at 21:00
OKO is performing at CORPO 6 with interactive visuals provided by James Murphy. Link to Facebook event.
15.09.2012 at 17:00
Open studios, one exhibition opening, one closing and the opening of the Lange Nacht Der Bilder at the building I have my studio in, much to see and do. Facebook event.
18.08.2012 at 20:00
Premiering a new performance entitled “Tongue Tied” at HomeBase project during the HB 3 Festival.
8.08-10.08.2012 (performance starts at 18 on Wednesday, never ends)
I’ll be premiering a three day performance titled “The Artist is Tele/Present” at Temporary Home, which is running in parallel to Dokumenta 13.
8.08.2012
I’ve finished a new video for my friends in Locrian, who have recently signed to Relapse records. Watch it here on the Relapse youtube channel.