I am a knot of experience and imagination in this planetary situationship. I collage texts out of these sources. I speak them. I become a figure. I spit, I drink, I cry. I move. I rest. We read. We listen. We dance. We play. Pointing to different potentialities and politics.
What do those text(ure)s do, and how?

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© kaik 2023

BIOGRAPHICAL
Currently based in Leipzig / slowly building networks and practices here / just finished the Master of Fine Arts Program Body, Theory and the Poetics of the Performative (MFA KTPP) at ABK Stuttgart / in the past years learning from and working with Discoteca Flaming Star (Cristina Gómez-Barrio & Wolfgang Mayer), Paula Kohlmann, Sergio Zevallos, Ines Kleesattel, Niall Jones, Liz Rosenfeld, Yara Richter, Toni Böckle, Stella Ruszkowski, Ludgi Porto, Moriz Stangl, Mona Gablenz, Mara Engelsberger, Aline Xavier Mineiro, Madeleine Bovidae, Una Herbst, Lea Lenk, Vesna Hetzel, Rainer Ganahl, and others.
Study biography: school in Munich, graduating 2015 with Abitur / From 2017 to 2021 studying Fine Arts and Art Education (BFA) at the Academy for Fine Arts in Stuttgart (Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) plus German Studies at University of Stuttgart (BFA) / German Studies and Literature Studies (MA) at University of Stuttgart (2021), at Universität Leipzig (2024) / 2021-2024 studying in the MFA Program Body, Theory and the Poetics of the Performative at ABK Stuttgart

Projects, Residencies, Publications and Exhibitions until now include:
→ solo and group text performances, experimenting with body, audience, voice and writing.
Performing ‚GORGE OUS MANIFESTO‘ at Apropos Lesebühne Leipzig (2024)
Performing ‚Mouth Meditation. To say yes, to say no.‘ at Hangar (2023) and PILOW (Performance in lots of ways) (not public, 2024)
Performing ‚writing tools poem‘ at the show of the publication ‚baby universe’ at Sommeraustellung AdBK München (2023)
Performance/Playshop ‚text + body = action?‘, two sessions (not public, 2023)
Performing ‚this is hybrid kloud, a body and moving space for practicing t3xt, sound and magic.‘ at Performance Night (not public, 2022)
→ Co-Editing and organizing events at [kɔn] paper, an interdisplinary literature- and culture-magazine for >> https://kon-paper.com
→ Collaborative Sound Project „I am so available“ with Iris Eckert (2023-24)
>> https://iriseckert.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-so-available-ft-kai-kr-mer
→ Collaborative Performance ‚RUNNING RIVERS & SKINNED WORDS, THE PRESSURE TO PERFORM & THE ATTEMPT TO LOVE—Eine Aufführung in drei Akten.‘ with Mona Gablenz (part of master thesis/final work) (2024)
‚(WORDS) Ich will Nein sagen‘, a self-published anthology on artistic writing (availabe on this website) (part of master thesis/final work) (2024)
download the text on my website, video cut from the performance to come
→ Short-term resident at hangar.org (Barcelona), part of the exchange grant program between Baden-Württemberg and Catalunya (2023) >> https://hangar.org/en/kai-kramer/
→ part of the Seminar ‚artists writing‘ and publication ‚baby universe‘, held and created at AdBK München in winter semester 2023/24 and summer semester 2024
→ Part of collective or collaborative performances/events:
‚In the efforts of time | Nice & easy – nice & rough‘ (2022), lead by Niall Jones
‚watch me watching you drinking at the bar‘ (2022), a performative group show of students of KTPP at ABK Rundgang
‚edging the self in circles‘ (2023) developed with Liz Rosenfeld
‚Apotheca Shady Hearts‘, (2023) group performance of students of KTPP, developed for ABK Rundgang
→ part of the collaborative artistic research project ‚transfem0711‘ with Lea Lenk >> https://transfem0711.hotglue.me
→ Co-founding and Co-editing ‚MATRATZE MAGAZIN’ a (inter-universitary) magazine for text and photographic works students, published once a year (2018-2023)
>> https://www.instagram.com/matratzemagazin/
→ Co-organizing and collaborating in a research project for creating an experimental tool for transdisciplinary exchange on forests, called ‚Waldweb‘ >> https://forest.convivial.garden (2022-2023)
→ Internship at Jara Rocha in Barcelona, developing piece for the radio Dublab.bcn together (2022) >> https://www.dublab.es/shows/naturoculturas/03-10-22
→ Publishing text pieces, for example in ‚[kon]-Paper‘ magazine for literature and culture (issue 8, 2021) and in the project ‚artagainstfgc’ (2021)
→ Solo show und publication in „The Great Infinity Today“, an Exhibition und publication series of the class of Prof. Ricarda Roggan in collaboration with the class of Prof. Patrick Thomas (Akademie- award at Rundgang 2018)
→ Lecture performances at local gallery projects and festivals such as ‚temporary Gallery 28e‘ (2018) and ‚Nachtsichtfestival‘ (2018)
I write, I move, I try to do less.

MAIL:
kaileah@t-online.de