Thursday, 12/05/2024

STUTTGART

5 pm

HMDK Stuttgart
OPR / Wandelhalle level 8
Urbanstrasse 25
70187 Stuttgart

with

Nikola Lutz - installation
Duo YonX, Lukax Santana - excerpts from zek #3
Contributions by students
Speeches

Nikola Lutz, professor of saxophone at the HMDK and Kalesnikava's colleague in the Stuttgarter Kollektiv für aktuelle Musik e.V., has been working continuously since Kalesnikava's arrest to keep her memory alive. The HMDK Stuttgart has now had two showcases designed by Prof. Nikola Lutz, which represent Kalesnikava's fate on the premises of the HMDK and bring it to the attention of future generations.

The installation also allows students to interactively engage with Maria Kalesnikava, her courage and her fate. During the interdisciplinary project week with the ABK Stuttgart under the direction of Prof. Nikola Lutz and Prof. Britta Wirthmüller, artistic contributions will be developed. The already existing petition “Freedom for Maria Kalesnikava #FreeMaria”, which already has more than 56.000 signatures, will also be brought back to the center of attention:

www.change.org/p/freiheit-für-maria-kalesnikava-freemaria-heikomaas-europarl-de-ep-president-vonderleyen

At the opening of the exhibition, Nikola Lutz, together with the Chilean musicians Lukax Santana and César Bernal, will present excerpts from the program “zek #3”, which deals with texts by Maxim Znak, who as Kalesnikava's lawyer was also sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Wednesday, 09/18/2024

STUTTGART

8:00 p.m.

Gedok Stuttgart
Hölderlinstrasse 17
70174 Stuttgart

Entrance free!

zezek [зек – russ. Convict] deals with texts written in prison by Maxim Zink and other authors, which form a thread from the prisoners to freedom, to self-determined communication, to their survival and our knowledge of their life situation. zek #2 commemorates the fate of Masha Kalesnikava, Maxim Znak and other political prisoners.

For zek#2, the Argentinian composer Jorge Chikiar composed his experimental multimedia microopera "Entre Líneas" for performers, objects and electric agitators, which will be premiered at Gedok Stuttgart.

with

Jorge Chikiar [Electronics, Performance]
Nikola Lutz [Electronics, Performance, Objects]
Iván García [Recorded Voice]

courtesy of vremja and Scotland Street Press, English translation by Jim and Ella Dingley

Maxim Znak, "Zekamerone. Stories from prison" Translated from the Russian by Henriette Reisner and Volker Weichsel © of the German-language edition Suhrkamp Verlag AG, Berlin, 2023

Sunday, 11/19/2023

STUTTGART / ONLINE

2 pm

Freies Radio für Stuttgart / Series RADIO SCHAUEN

Live at the foyer, on air and as video stream

The musician and activist Maria Kalesnikava has been imprisoned in Belarus for three years and there has been no contact with her for many months, not for her lawyers, not for her family or friends. Stuttgart companions remember their former colleague with artistic contributions. The author Anna Bakinovskaia presents a film about Belarus that also works as a radio play. The director Jasmin Schädler talks about her colleague, the musician Remmy Canedo brings excerpts from the piece noVoice - noBody, one of the last projects that Mascha was able to help create in Stuttgart, and accompanies the afternoon with his electric guitar.

https://www.freies-radio.de/sendungsdetails/202311191400