Lisa Stick

Virtual Exhibition: "SOCIAL DISTANCING"

The idea for this virtual exhibition was conceived towards the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. While keeping their „social distance“ the participating artists create something together - without actually meeting in person. This artistic collaboration is not limited to music, but also includes other art forms such as photography, writing, visual arts or filmmaking. 

The objective of this online exhibition is to provide a glimpse into the creative exchange between the artists and to showcase the final results of this process. 

Two works by Timur Yüksel (Mainz), Sebastian Gille (Cologne), Daniel Stritzke (Hamburg) and Lisa Stick (Hamburg). 

Since Sebastian spent a short time in Hamburg at the end of May we decided to actually meet in Daniel’s studio in order to record some free improvised music inspired by Timur’s photos. Still, most of the communication took place online or on the phone.

The third work "Im Kleinen" is a collaboration of Canadian musician Mike McCormick (guitar, field recordings, sounddesign) who lives in Oslo, Matenko (words, Hamburg), Nadja Höhfeld (video, Berlin) and Lisa Stick (trombone, field recordings, Hamburg).

First, there was this poem: 

Kettenriss (chain tear)

Einsamkeit (loneliness)

Tigertanz (tiger's dance)

Glück (luck)

im Kleinen (in small)

heilen (heal)

bleiben (stay)

Inspired by these words, Lisa sent musical sketches to Mike. They exchanged recordings and ideas, added field recordings, Mike alienated the sounds and involved Nadja's video.