LapStrap
sound belt, texts, voice, fieldrecordings & performance: Steffi Weismann
arduino (waveshield) programming: Georg Werner
In “LapStrap” groupings of sound and speech, listening and thinking are performed in loops with the idea of identity formations as swarm. “To lap” means to turn in circles and the solo creates a specific space-time experience. The title of the piece plays with the image of the instrument itself – a veritable carpenter's belt with audio equipment (microphones, signal processor, amplifiers, speakers) that is wearable and controlable directly on the body. LapStrap-Performances are always situative and play with the place, space, audience and context in different ways. Basically there is a distinction between concert versions (sitting audience) and interventions (exhibition openings and outdoor performances).

#1 18. 09. 2010 ECHTZEITMUSIKTAGE, Kirche Elisabeth, Berlin-Mitte (concert)

#2 29. 11. 2010 LABOR SONOR, Auguststrasse 10, Berlin-Mitte (concert)

#3 03. 12. 2010 TRANSATLANTISCHE IMPULSE, Akademie der Künste Berlin (exhibition opening)

#4 18. 12. 2010 IMC 5533 -art space Istanbul, performance event with Barbara Loreck

#5 23. 12. 2010 SIRKÜLASYON Istanbul (Intervention in public space) > video

#6 09. 5. 2011 PERFORMER STAMMTISCH, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben Berlin (performance art)

#7 12. 6. 2011 OBPHON 11 - Mobile Klänge im sächsischen Oberland (interventions in public space) > video

#8 6. 8. 2011 CAR CULTURES - Museumsnacht Kamuna im ZKM Karlsruhe (intervention in exhibition spaces) > video

#9 18. 8. 2011 ARCHIV PERFORMATIV ­ Zwischenergebnis des Forschungsprojektes im Ausstellungsraum Klingental Basel

#10 21. 09. 2011 DRAWINGS, SOUNDS & AMBIENCES, alte Fischhallen Cuxhaven (performance/intervention, exhibition opening) > video

#11 07. 10. 2011 RECOLLECTING THE ACT - zur Tradierung von Performancekunst, Kaserne Basel (Performance im Rahmen des Symposions)

#12 20. 09. 2011 QUIET CUE - intermedia and cooperation, Berlin-Neukölln (concert/performance)

#13 06. 12. 2011 LÜCKE / GAP - exhibition and book release by Stefanie Lorey, Åsa Stjerna, Steffi Weismann, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig

#14 16. 04. 2012 MAP#3: Performing Sound - Media Archive Performance, Errant Bodies Berlin (Launch of Website with lectures and perfomances)

#15 15. 05. 2012 FLOATING GAPS - General Public Berlin (book release with performances by Dorothea Rust + Steffi Weismann)

#16 27. 09. 2012 UNDER CONSTRUCTION - apartman projesi Berlin (opening)

#17 18. 10. 2012 VISARTE KABINETT Zürich (solo exhibition by Steffi Weismann with installations & performances) > video

#18 24. 10. 2012 GRÜNTALER 9 Berlin-Wedding, sound performance with kruk from Rotterdam (group improvisation)

#19 26. 10. 2012 O TANNENBAUM Berlin-Neukölln, sound performance with kruk from Rotterdam (group improvisation)

#20 21. 4. 2013 Museum fluxus+ Potsdam

#21 31. 8. 2013 (version discover football) quEAR das transtonale Ohrenfest, am Ostkreuz Berlin-Friedrichshain

#22 15.11.2013 emihal, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin

#23 25.4.2015 Sofia Underground, Performance Art Festival Sofia, Bulgaria

#24 17.5.2015 Voice Observatory Errant Bodies, Kollwitzstr. 97, 10435 Berlin

#25 29.5.2015 Serralves em Festa Porto, Portugal

#26 11.2.2016 in_transmission Universität Kassel, Performance with Lecture