
12 songs/12 drawings....the numerics show the order of the song on CD.From Peter Gabriel's CD "BIRDY" (Filmmusik),drawings 2005-2007.
Katja Romeyke works/steps to pg-project
Katja Romeyke is a crossover artist. She studied arts (performance and painting) at Bremen and Saarbrücken (1989-97// Prof. Rolf Thiele, Prof. Ulrike Rosenbach , Prof. Bodo Baumgarten ). While studying performance, she discovered the power of her works - in communication with the recipient. Now, performance is her ultimate means of expression, in combination with other artist media. Romeyke works in several media - (drawing, painting , installation, performance, multimedia, photo….) although the background and “heart of her works” always seemed to be the drawing. In 2004, after a Peter Gabriel concert at Hamburg, she decided to start an ultimate collaboration with other musicians/ artists in dialogue. (After that, for nearly 5 years, she had been forming a concept for an intermediate artwork in different notation systems.) First of all, a collaboration (2004-2005, roro-project, 150 drawings) with Armin Rohr (artist) , in final destination to pg-project , offered general access into drawing dialogues . Nevertheless Romeyke worked on her vision inside, to create a dialogue in different notation systems with musicians: Her second step on this way, includes a collaboration in live performance (voice & drawing: zeitgleichzeit), with Ralf Peter (countertenor), in 2005 -2007.
about pg-project
Armed with sufficient live - and drawing experience, first pg-project steps (drawings) have been recorded (video) in spring 2005. pg-project (work in progress) includes simultaneous drawings to all of Peter Gabriel’s music oeuvre from the beginning of his solo works in 1977.
Two varied (sighted/sightless), simultaneous drawings (meanwhile over 600) to each PG song… black ink on paper (brush & crayon): compare with single-line - drawing of Zen Buddhism.
Romeyke:” I do not try to tell stories, or imaginary pictures, I only draw in an immediate room of sound and silence…trigger pulse is the music. My body is a corpus /sound space with membrane, reflecting sound on paper. It’s a kind of meditation…awareness. These drawings image amazingly structures and pictures of inside, without any possibility to rationality in this short time (1-7 minutes…depending to the songs) It’s a tightrope walk of art as I am a crossover artist.”
The pg-project also includes: correspondence to Peter Gabriel (management), a number of live situations/ performances - for example: portraits (photo) of Peter Gabriel in live situations (when receiving the Musikpreis of Frankfurt 2005), or live – drawings
(at concert in Hamburg 2007 ,accompanied by German Television SR-Kulturspiegel).
pg-project includes several ways of communication… publicity of television and other media, or face to face delivery of the pg-project documentary (at Ludwigforum Aachen, in 2008 / photographer: Volker Bier, or 2010 at Paris / - sound check).
pg-project asks questions to behaviour of art and real life in crossover manner. Romeyke asks: “Is art (music & visual art…in dialogue between two notation systems) able to connect the reality of human beings who would never meet each other in real life?” It’s a Utopia…a polar project, of failure and success. It’s an artwork about the essence of art and life. “The journey is the reward.” This project features attributes to a total work of art, in that way.
Memorandum: pg-project dialogue arts & life project needs publicity. pg-project tries to raise a real dialogue between Katja Romeyke and Peter Gabriel (drawing and live music). pg-project is independent from final destination.
Text: "großartig" (click here)
Rezension von Katja Romeyke zu Peter Gabriel / "scratch my back"
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Sind das auch Blindzeichnungen?
AntwortenLöschenBirdy ist einer meiner Lieblingsfilme.
Peter Gabriel's Filmmusik ist sooo genial.Sind die Zeichnungen parallel zur Musik entstanden?
Wäre sowas auch live im Konzert denkbar?
Sorry, aber: viele Zeichnungen - viele Fragen.
Diese Zeichnungen sind alle, auf A4 mit Tusche, sehend, simultan zur Musik (CD/ im Atelier) entstanden. Das Zeichnen live, im Konzert wäre denkbar... (wow, das wäre toll) - habe ich in einem anderen Musik-Zeichnung Projekt "zeitgleichzeit" als Performance 2007 gemacht.
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