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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
Teaser trailer https://vimeo.com/708175696

Past

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

Makroscope
Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 48
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

sculptinginside.com

TICKETS

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

Facebook event

 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 34
10247 Berlin
Facebook event

12.5 – 2.6.17

“It Happened Here” solo exhibition at Exgirlfriend gallery.

Holsteinische Straße 18
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.

Exact location on google maps

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.