Rizoma #4

September 2021

Thesis "While we fall asleep". from Mariam Frick

00:00 / Intro of the program: soundtrack by Ceola Turnstal and Vulkana

01:16 - 10:42 Fragment of durational piano improvisation during the one-night stand event ¨While we fall asleep¨ Room recording / Pia Achternkamp
07:00 - 09:00 Fragment of the reading of the thesis ¨While we fall asleep¨ during the evening event of its presentation / presentation. Mariam Frick
10:00 - 13:39 Fragment of the durational film ¨While we fall asleep¨ / Mariam Frick / Voice: Zus
13:31 - 17:30 German folk lullaby / Voices: Mariam Frick and Pia Achternkamp / Guitar: Pia Achternkamp
16:29 - 20:30 Film soundtrack / Voices: Mariam Frick and Pia Achternkamp
20:10 - 22:50 Fragment of the durational film ¨While we fall asleep¨ / Mariam Frick / Voice: Ahmed
23:00 - 30:20 Fragment of durational piano improvisation during the one-night event ¨While we fall asleep¨ Room recording / Pia Achternkamp
31:00 - 33:00 Excerpt from the durational film ¨While we fall asleep¨ / Mariam Frick in which it reproduces the text of Ahmed translated into English / Voice: Mariam Frick
33:00 - 35.20 Movie soundtrack. Music box / Mariam Frick
35:20 - 41:00 Excerpt from the durational film ¨While we fall asleep¨ / Mariam Frick in which it reproduces the text of Hilde translated into English / Voice: Mariam Frick
40:00 - 52:50 Fragment of durational piano improvisation during the one-night stand event ¨While we fall asleep¨ Room recording / Pia Achternkamp
51:00 - 52:50 Excerpt from the durational film ¨While we fall asleep¨ / Mariam Frick / Voice: Katrin
51:00 - 56:00 Film soundtrack / Accordion: Pia Achternkamp
55:40 - 56:50 Quote from Fabian Goppelsröder and Peter Handke
55:50 - 59:40 Film soundtrack / Voices: Mariam Frick and Pia Achternkamp

Texts: Vulkana and Fragments of the thesis "While we fall asleep" of Mariam Frick

Mariam Frick is a sound artist and filmmaker living and working in Berlin since 2008. After completing her film studies, she finished her MA in European Media Studies in Potsdam with her thesis "While we fall asleep". A cinematic, academic thesis, written with a performative work on the intermediate state of sleep in 2019.
His practice combines film, sound, music and performance. In recent years, he has increasingly focused on the human voice. He is part of the stage band moschka / piril together with Pia Achternkamp and works mainly in collaboration with other artists.
His latest work Gebetteta sound and space installation that was recently shown as part of the flüstern exhibition in Prague, is a joint project with her partner and visual artist Sarah Drain. Within their work, they are exploring different levels of temporality to open up spaces of imagination and encounter, focusing on the potential of interstices and transitions: of waking and dreaming, of past and present, of people with each other. In doing so, they question the presence of the past and its influence on social processes.