PROJECTS
every desk’s concert
Tables are central elements for social interaction. With Every Desk’s Concert, we put the table in the center of attention and reinterpret it...
...into an instrument
...into a stage
...into a space for exchange and encounter
...into a venue for creative processes
...into a place for musical encounters, building bridges to other tables
Every table is an instrument – many tables are an orchestra – everyone sitting at the table is an artist.
A concert and community evening created by Dora Donata Sammer (recorder, performance) and Ingvill Statle Skjørten (voice, performance), together with pupils from Gymnasium Lerchenfeld Hamburg. Created within the frames of the TONALi project “Kunschutzgebiet” and performed on 3rd of July 2025 in Haus 73 as part of the TONALi Festival. Music by J. S. Bach, L. Berio, G. Aperghis, La Monte Young, J. Dowland, Wir sind Helden und P. Streiff.
von Spiegeln und Rätseln
von Spiegeln und Rätseln is a concert performance that explores the dynamics of mirroring and the puzzle of human interaction. Through works for solo voice, the interaction between the performer and her audience is closely examined.
At the heart of the performance is the question of boundaries: how close can the performer get to her audience without crossing their boundaries? And how far can she distance herself without losing contact? This exploration is woven into a tapestry of voice and movement, in which every sound and every gesture questions the nature of presence, distance and the mirrors we hold up to each other.
The project was first performed in Wien, 20th of February 2025, during Sounding Visions - IGNM Austria’s competition for new music performance and concert design. It was awarded a recognition prize by the jury. Music by Sarah Nemtsov, Liza Lim, Maja Ratkje, Luciano Berio, Georges Aperghis and Dieter Schnebel.
howhow to vacant lot
Who owns the land we live on? The performance to vacant lot playfully confronts privatisation, displacement and the social consequences of competition with land as an object of speculation.
Over the course of the performance, the space undergoes continuous subdivision and transformation. The altered spatial situation triggers new playful settings for the performers and the audience. A grid structure consisting of 100 separate square metres is constructed and ultimately deconstructed again. In the process, various phases of development are traced – from common land to enclosure, speculation, competition and expropriation, to the unclear space that emerges once all structures have been dissolved again.
Performances with HowHow Kollektiv under the New Ecologies Festival of Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (July 2024), Community Organising - ein Nachbarschaftprojekt der Dresdner Johannstadt (August 2024) and in Zentralwerk Dresden (May 2025).
Homo Ludens
A game show concert about playing, with music by Georges Aperghis, Siebe Thijs, Georg Nussbaumer and Dolly Parton, as well as two self-constructed participatory musical games including 50 music boxes, three giant dice and two aleatoric scores. Concept and performance by LiedExtended (Alba Llorach Roca and Ingvill Statle Skjørten). The project was premiered in May 2024 in Sophiensaal, Nürnberg. It won one of three main prizes (Publikumserfolg) at D-Bü Wettbewerb, a competition for innovative concert formats.
SUPER digital dreams
Chamber opera for 4 voices, electronics and video.
Concept, Composition, and Direction: Laure M. Hiendl
Libretto, Dramaturgy: Yana Thönnes
Stage, Video: Lenni Hofer
Costumes: Marina Calabrese, Laura Trilsam
Singers: Maria Teresa dos Santos, Ami Mizuno, Berenike Tölle, Ingvill Statle Skjørten
Rehearsal Director: Lisa Fornhammar
Premiered in Salzburg, 04.02.2024. Duration: approx. 60 minutes.
Three Artificial Intelligences (AIs) are at work, reconstructing what opera might have been and meant to humans. They have old backups to work with, but these backups are fragmented and far from being a complete opera archive. Nonetheless they need to do the job. In order to do so, they need to learn how to sing—and maybe feel too?
stimm und stumm
A choral theatre piece in thirteen scenes for eight singers and three actors with music by Mischa Käser, Georges Aperghis, Wolfgang Rihm, Gyorgy Ligeti, Anna Berg and Caroline Shaw. Two performances and recording at the Theater am Gleis in Winterthur, Switzerland, July 2023. Idea, concept and direction: Lena Sigrist and Onna Stäheli.