Katharina Pelosi & Rosa Wernecke (Swoosh Lieu)
Katharina Pelosi studied at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen and works as an audio artist in the fields of performance, radio play and installation. In her acoustic work, she deals with sound-based forms of remembering and the transformation of visual phenomena into the acoustic medium. In doing so, she attempts to develop formal-aesthetic approaches based on feminist and post-colonial discourses. Pelosi is co-founder of the feminist performance and media art collective Swoosh Lieu, whose projects have been invited to the Tanzplattform Deutschland, the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen, the Impulse Festival Cologne and the Politik im freien Theater festival, among others. Two radio play productions were created in collaboration with NDR.
Pelosi has realised soundwalks, audio plays and installations, including at the CCA Tel Aviv, for the Museum Judengasse in Frankfurt and PACT Zollverein, Urbane Künste Ruhr. Her radio play Parole V has been nominated for the Juliane Bartel Prize 2021 . Her artistic feature Call to Listen was awarded the Leipziger Hörspielsommer prize in 2019.
From 2015-2017, Pelosi was a member of the graduate programme Performing Citizenship with her artistic doctoral project on sound as a medium of memory culture in post-colonial Hamburg. In 2018 she was a fellow at Villa Kamogawa, Goethe-Institut Japan, together with Rosa Wernecke, and in 2021 she is a fellow at Casa Baldi, Italy.
Rosa Wernecke is a performance and media artist who lives and works in Berlin and Frankfurt. She studied Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen and Media Arts in Cologne and in her performances, installations and video works she pushes the dialogue between the performing and visual arts. At the centre of her work is a queer-feminist approach to content intertwined with a strong formal focus on the use of technical means from the fields of stage technology, light and video art and new digital media. Her works have been shown at Fleetstreet Hamburg, Moltkerei Cologne, Synnika Art Space Frankfurt, bauhaus reuse Berlin, Galerie Simone Menne Kiel and the Centre for the Holographic Arts New York, among others.
She is co-founder of the feminist performance and media art collective Swoosh Lieu with Katharina Pelosi, whose performances and installations have been invited to the Tanzplattform Deutschland, the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen, the Impulse Festival Cologne and the Politik im freien Theater festival, among others. She also co-founded the network gefährliche Arbeit for queer-feminist FLINT* theatre workers.
She has received international scholarships, including at the Hessian Theatre Academy and Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto in 2018. In 2021, she is part of the Home-Frankfurt-Tel Aviv artist exchange programme and a fellow at the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul.
Katharina Pelosi and Rosa Wernecke are scholarship holders at the Kulturakademie Tarabya from April to May 2021 and again from June to July 2022 as the feminist performance and media art collective Swoosh Lieu .
Katharina Pelosi studied at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen and works as an audio artist in the fields of performance, radio play and installation. In her acoustic work, she deals with sound-based forms of remembering and the transformation of visual phenomena into the acoustic medium. In doing so, she attempts to develop formal-aesthetic approaches based on feminist and post-colonial discourses. Pelosi is co-founder of the feminist performance and media art collective Swoosh Lieu, whose projects have been invited to the Tanzplattform Deutschland, the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen, the Impulse Festival Cologne and the Politik im freien Theater festival, among others. Two radio play productions were created in collaboration with NDR.
Pelosi has realised soundwalks, audio plays and installations, including at the CCA Tel Aviv, for the Museum Judengasse in Frankfurt and PACT Zollverein, Urbane Künste Ruhr. Her radio play Parole V has been nominated for the Juliane Bartel Prize 2021 . Her artistic feature Call to Listen was awarded the Leipziger Hörspielsommer prize in 2019.
From 2015-2017, Pelosi was a member of the graduate programme Performing Citizenship with her artistic doctoral project on sound as a medium of memory culture in post-colonial Hamburg. In 2018 she was a fellow at Villa Kamogawa, Goethe-Institut Japan, together with Rosa Wernecke, and in 2021 she is a fellow at Casa Baldi, Italy.
Rosa Wernecke is a performance and media artist who lives and works in Berlin and Frankfurt. She studied Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen and Media Arts in Cologne and in her performances, installations and video works she pushes the dialogue between the performing and visual arts. At the centre of her work is a queer-feminist approach to content intertwined with a strong formal focus on the use of technical means from the fields of stage technology, light and video art and new digital media. Her works have been shown at Fleetstreet Hamburg, Moltkerei Cologne, Synnika Art Space Frankfurt, bauhaus reuse Berlin, Galerie Simone Menne Kiel and the Centre for the Holographic Arts New York, among others.
She is co-founder of the feminist performance and media art collective Swoosh Lieu with Katharina Pelosi, whose performances and installations have been invited to the Tanzplattform Deutschland, the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen, the Impulse Festival Cologne and the Politik im freien Theater festival, among others. She also co-founded the network gefährliche Arbeit for queer-feminist FLINT* theatre workers.
She has received international scholarships, including at the Hessian Theatre Academy and Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto in 2018. In 2021, she is part of the Home-Frankfurt-Tel Aviv artist exchange programme and a fellow at the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul.
Katharina Pelosi and Rosa Wernecke are scholarship holders at the Kulturakademie Tarabya from April to May 2021 and again from June to July 2022 as the feminist performance and media art collective Swoosh Lieu .