2018-12-24
2018 synopsis: past, present and future | |
like in the past years
we like to take a look back on the year and tell about fixed plans fort he next
one. this year was coined by the big and successful sven piayda solo show ‘adaptation
(you´re mine)’ at galerie gublia and followed by different contributions to certain
international group shows and video screening at different shows and film festivals.
also, 2018 was coined by the collaborative work with nüremberg based artist karla
köhler and the common on-going exhibition at the end of the year. finally, the
year is crowned by winning the lisaluna 2018 award for the short film ‘never is
a long time’. you can check the exhibitions section
for a collection of all dates and pictures. |
2018-12-22 lisaluna
2018 award for sven piayda´s 'never is a long time' | |
yesterday, december 21
(the shortest day in the year and therefor international short film day) the lisaluna
short film festival in duisburg screened sven piayda´s short ‘never is a long
time’, created from video installation snippets, animated tableaus, new scenes
and sound work and deals with an interplanetary journey and the lack of benefit
in knowledge. |
2018-12-10 lisaluna
short film festival screens 'never is a long time' | |
back in 2015 the studio
received a request to create a short film for a festival to take place in november
´15. the shot ‘never is a long time’ was created from video installation snippets,
animated tableaus, new scenes and sound work and deals with an interplanetary
journey and the lack of benefit in knowledge. unfortunately, the festival never
took place and ‘never is a long time’ was only available for a short period in
the /CAMP. |
2018-11-25 erlangen
group show open plus recent video screenings | |
last thursday galerie
treppenhaus in erlangen opened ‘hochhaus - hütte – hinterhof, der reiz des ungeliebten‘
by thomas r. hoeß, gabriella héjja and karla köhler. the exhibition also feature
collaborative works by karla köhler and sven piayda like the ‘granada interface’
music video for record of tides, the ‘from new york to los angeles’ series and
the ‘k-city’ series. |
2018-11-19 galerie
treppenhaus opens piayda collabs show this thursday | |
this thursday, november
22, 2018 the galerie treppenhaus in erlangen will open ‘hochhaus - hütte – hinterhof,
der reiz des ungeliebten‘ by thomas r. hoeß, gabriella héjja and karla köhler.
this exhibition will also feature the collaborative works by karla köhler and
sven piayda like the ‘granada interface’ video, the ‘from new york to los angeles’
series and the ‘k-city’ series. |
2018-11-03 galerie
treppenhaus opens group show featuring piayda collabs | |
on november 22, 2018 the
galerie treppenhaus in erlangen will open ‘hochhaus - hütte – hinterhof, der reiz
des ungeliebten‘ by thomas r. hoeß, gabriella héjja and karla köhler. this exhibition
will also feature the collaborative works by karla köhler and sven piayda like
the ‘granada interface’ video, the ‘from new york to los angeles’ series and the
‘k-city’ series. |
2018-10-15 motionart
screens new work ‘rorschach’ in schwerte | |
we are happy to announce
that the motionart film festival will screen the new work ‘rorschach’ from now
on in schwerte, germany. the video can be watched in the window of rienhöfe opticians
at kleppingsrtaße 1. you may like to find out about the film festival and the
screenings in schwerte over here. |
2018-10-09 secret
record of tides live gig aftermath and bootleg | |
last saturday record of
tides aka sven piayda performed a secret audio only live set at electric café
oberhausen. next to record of tides artists like inter:pol, donk and others performed
that night at october 6. even when the gig event was public, no information was
spread in advance. |
2018-09-28 'wishing
well' has been demounted from kuno park | |
back in 2016 michaela
best and sven piayda collaborated for 'wishing well', a sculptural installation
developed on demand and in kuno park. this piece was inspired by skulptur projekte
münster, up-cycling theory and the specifications given to create a piece
in the park to remain and interact with nature. it was supposed to fulfil your
wishes and play music for dropping coins into it. the music (actually a heavily
processed piece by baroque composer antonio montanari) symbolized the fulfilled
wish. |
2018-09-18 studio
prepares november show and portfolio updates | |
during the yard sale many
visitors bought non-expensive pieces directly from the studio. actually these
works have not been unique works or editions but small sized prints which have
been used for curating. after this great success of the yard sale last weekend
the studio is focusing now on the last show for 2018. |
2018-09-09 heimaterde
yard sale with special offers next saturday | |
on saturday, september
15 at 10 pm about 144 heimaterde residents open their yards (or front garden meadows)
for sale. this will be an opportunity for you to spent a day in the historic settlement
and enjoy the flea market. |
2018-09-04 celebrating
kubrick´s impact: ‘2001’ 4k-screening this friday | |
stanley kubrick is still
one of the most influential and discipline coining directors of all time, especially
‘2001 – a space odyssey’ has a special relevance for sven piayda. the movie offers
many open questions (as it is trendy in contemporary movies) and outstanding special
effects, also it appears to be a reference matrix when movies deal with artificial
intelligence or deep space travel and encountering multi-dimensional space. the
movies has also become a reference for piayda when it comes to teaching directing. |
2018-08-27 piayda
cgi to fassbender award at max ernst museum this weekend | |
since 1990 the city of
brühl is honouring contemporary graphic art with the joseph und anna fassbender
award and this year for the 28th time. a jury consisting of art an historian,
an artist, the chairman of the max ernst society as well as the city´s mayor and
a resident citizen will pick this year´s awardee from collected works heading
for the prize. the museum is not presenting a full show but presents the collection
as it is presented to the jury. you can have a look yourself by visiting the dorothea
tanning room of the max ernst museum on september 1 and 2, from 11 am to 5 pm. |
2018-08-16 celebrating
kubrick´s impact: join ‘2001’ as 4k-screening and sfx talk | |
stanley kubrick is still
one of the most influential and discipline coining directors of all time, especially
‘2001 – a space odyssey’ has a special relevance for sven piayda. the movie offers
many open questions (as it is trendy in contemporary movies) and outstanding special
effects, also it appears to be a reference matrix when movies deal with artificial
intelligence or deep space travel and encountering multi-dimensional space. the
movies has also become a reference for piayda when it comes to teaching directing. |
2018-07-20 record
of tides fourth album 'endurance' out now on kreislauf.org | |
it is our massive pleasure
to announce the release of 'endurance', the fourth full length album by record
of tides. the album is released once again by the hamburg based netlabel kreislauf.org
and and is distributed by achive.org and sonicsquirrel.net. |
2018-07-16 record
of tides audiovisual live at eurasia electronica aftermath | |
we are looking back on
the first eurasia electronica festival taking place at eurasia and pilgrim
art. the small experimental festival was headlined by record of tides aka
sven piayda and closed by a shorter live house set by lemon&pilgrim as well by
a dj set by dennis lemon and rees archibald turning eurasia art into a club. the
night was opened by mjellmë aka swantje lichtenstein with word based sound performance
followed by very special guest rees archibald from australia with a short drone
performance. originally achim zepezauer confirmed to play live but could not show
up because of schedule difficulties. |
2018-07-09 record
of tides live at eurasia electronica festival this saturday | |
it is great to remind
you that record of tides will headline the eurasia electronica festival to take
place july 14 in gelsenkirchen at eurasia and pilgrim art and will feature next
to record of tides projects like mjellmë aka swantje lichtenstein and lemon&pilgrim
plus another special guest. originally achim zepezauer was booked for the event
but had to cancel due schedule issues. |
2018-07-07 AESTATE
‘superflat’ 10th anniversary free digital release out now | |
on july 7, 2008, zany
music released the second album by AESTATE, the common project by chris huff and
sven piayda. the album was released physically on compact disc featuring a very
beautiful artwork having two different covers to be contained in every copy. a
little later zany music put out ‘superflat’ as digital download following fans
request. today, exactly ten years after the original release date we are happy
to present the original download bundle for free, featuring all three cover designs,
nine regular tracks plus a live excerpt from 2018 as bonus track. |
2018-06-25 new
collaborative work to be shown at galeriehaus defet, nürnberg | |
back in december 2017
the studio started to collaborate with nürnberg based artist karla köhler. she
is best known for sculptures and paintings of skyscrapers focussing on modern
urbanity. köhler and piayda have already been on display together in 2011 for
'zeitgenössische stadtbilder' at d-52.raum für zeitgenössische kunst in düsseldorf.
after handcrafting pieces for many years köhler has started to create digital
models of her works and started to use 3d-printers to create the typical skyscrapers.
as working with digital data it was easy for the studio to start a collaboration
working on the delivered data. the first output is the music video for the record
of tides track ‘granada interface (the lost tapes)’ taken from the vinyl (and
dvd) ep with the same name. the video shows köhler´s urban design in changing
weather and light constellations with a camera circling around the complex. a
mini series also produced from the video set-up is also supposed to be presented
in a common show scheduled for november in erlangen. |
2018-06-18 new
record of tides album ’endurance’ out july 20
on kreislauf.org | |
it is our massive pleasure
to announce the upcoming release of 'endurance', the fourth full length album
by record of tides. the album will be put out once again by the hamburg based
netlabel kreislauf.org and will be available digitally and for free on july 20,
2018. kreislauf.org has already released the reissue of record of tides´ debut
'timber' from 2004 in 2014, the follow up 'vessel' in 2016 and the 2017 album
‘solna’. |
2018-06-11 record
of tides headlines eurasia electronica festival | |
it is great to announce
that record of tides will headline the eurasia electronica festival to
take place july 14 in gelsenkirchen. the small festival will take place at eurasia
and pilgrim art and will feature next to record of tides achim zepezauer and
pilgrim&lemon. |
2018-06-01 record
of tides´ 'petrichor ep' out on zany music today | |
it is our massive pleasure
to announce the release of record of tides new 'petrichor ep' on zany music today.
the release is the second ep put out by record of tides on zany music in 2018
following the vinyl/dvd only release ‘granada interface’. for the first time the
release is distributed via archive.org, previous releases already have been published
there. the ep is released quite surprisingly, the label avoided any previous announcements
but some involved producers have already documented their work on it on social
media. |
2018-05-22 studio
presents new video, show concept, collab and catalogue
| |
after closing ‘adaptation
(you´re mine)’ at galerie gublia there are no public events on schedule. the studio
has been busy behind closed doors to present a bunch of new output now, more or
less available to the public. first of all, the more complex video work called
‘heads’ (see still above) with randomly chosen scenes from the same scenario has
been finished and has become a black and white high definition random progression
video of a flipping coin in a shed. the video is based upon six (originally drafted
three) three-minute loops to be combined randomly again and again to generate
a non-repetitive on-going and ever changing piece.
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2018-05-07 solo
show aftermath, ongiong exhibitions and studio work
| |
we are recently looking
back on a spring full of great shows: sven piayda´s solo show ‘adaptation (you´re
mine)’ at galerie gublia was a big success. the show was excorted by a great opening,
good press echo, a catalogue (which is still available) and an extended artist
talk featuring gallerist bianca wickinghoff (see picture above). caused by schedule
difficulties and private issues the show vanished a little earlier than scheduled.
nevertheless, gallery head irma gublia and sven piayda have announced to continue
working together, you can still see and purchase certain works from the show at
the gallery. also, you can still watch ‘spirit with thorne’ over at the studio
site and have a look at the features below:
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2018-04-30 vkunst
frankfurt screens 'portrait of violetta' / early show closing
| |
we are happy and grateful
to announce the screening of ‘portrait of violetta’ at vkunst frankfurt this weekend.
the festival is subtitled ‘mein neues ich’ (my new me) and is curated by christoph
von löw and andreas greulich. the festival is supposed to show trends of the upcoming
21st century in media art and will take place in galleries and stores along fahrgasse
in frankfurt/main on may 4 and 5 from 8 pm to midnight.
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2018-04-16 KURZstummfilmfestival
screens 'die
entdeckung europas' april
27 | |
we are happy to announce
that one of sven piayda´s video works (in this case even 'short film') will be
part of a festival again: ‘die entdeckung europas’ will be screened at the KURZstummfilmfestival
on friday, april 27 at zeche carl in essen. the festival expands over friday and
saturday and features short films without audio track only dealing with the issue
of ‘raum’ (space). more info to be announced.
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2018-03-28 galerie
gublia schedules extended artist talk for april 14 | |
the galerie gublia has scheduled
an extended artist talk for april 14. after discussing possibilites of events
escorting the exhibition the gallery has developed an extended artist talk:
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2018-03-23 record
of tides 'granada interface ep' out now on zany music | |
it is our massive pleasure
to announce the release of record of tides ep 'granada interface' on zany music
today. the ep is out out on vinyl only (plus dvd, no digital download or compact
disc) and is already sold out caused by pre-orders. zany music has announced to
add the ‘swan ep’ to first orders and/or a dvd version of the ep. the dvd will
feature the full ep illustrated by videos directed by sven piayda, you can already
watch the video for the title track below.
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2018-03-12 record
of tides 'granada interface ep' out march 23 on zany music | |
it is our massive pleasure
to announce the release of record of tides ep 'granada interface' on zany music
on march 23. the ep is supposed to be put out on vinyl only and to be sold out
on day of release caused by pre-orders. zany music has announced to add the ‘swan
ep’ to first orders and/or a dvd version of the ep. the idea of putting out vinyl
is around for months now, please note that the piece shown above is a dummy version,
the actual vinyl will look differently.
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2018-03-05 'adaptation'
media update: interview, opening speech & pictures | |
on friday feb 23 the current
solo show of sven piayda was opened at galerie gublia in essen. ‘adaptation (you’re
mine)’ is based mainly upon the concept of using public domain material, stock
footage and conceptional ideas to explore deeper meaning in reworking certain
pieces. the exhibition is supposed to deal with the idea if adaptation and it´s
meaning for (post)postmodern art. the show combines known as well as new serial
works and tableaus dealing with the idea of taking and transforming, also three
more complex video works will be shown during time of exhibition. |
2018-02-26 'adaptation
(you´re mine)' at galerie gublia open now | |
last friday the current
solo show of sven piayda was opened at galerie gublia in essen. ‘adaptation (you’re
mine)’ is based mainly upon the concept of using public domain material, stock
footage and conceptional ideas to explore deeper meaning in reworking certain
pieces. the exhibition is supposed to deal with the idea if adaptation and it´s
meaning for (post)postmodern art. the show combines known as well as new serial
works and tableaus dealing with the idea of taking and transforming, also three
more complex video works will be shown during time of exhibition. |
2018-02-17 galerie
gublia opens sven piayda solo show this friday | |
it is a real big pleasure
and very exciting for us to announce the upcoming solo show of sven piayda at
galerie gublia in essen. the show will be titled ‘adaptation (you’re mine)’ and
is based upon the concept announced in the journal back in spring 2017. gallerist
irma gublia and the studio have started planning a common show even back in the
beginning of 2017 after opening the gallery in the city of essen. |
2018-02-02 galerie
gublia announces sven piayda solo show and catalogue | |
it is a real big pleasure
to announce the upcoming solo show of sven piayda at galerie gublia in essen.
the show will be titled ‘adaptation (you’re mine)’ and is based upon the concept
announced in the journal back in spring 2017. gallerist irma gublia and the studio
have started planning a common show even back in the beginning of 2017 after opening
the gallery in the city of essen. |
2018-01-04 heavy
rotation 2017: sturm, schlüsi & piayda tell favourites | |
first of all: happy new year to
all of you. this year teaching movie director and vinyl addict dietmar sturm as
well as global thinker and local activist dj grischo schlüsi - next to sven piayda
- tell their favourite and most played albums of the year 2017. next to their
top 5 albums, a song is chosen to be the song of the year. new this year also
the best art show, also best book will be added to the list, mr sturm even added
a favourite movie, we should add the category for next year... here we go: |