MUCKEMACHER
MUCKEMACHER
is a band founded in Berlin in 2012 by the musicians, composers and DJs Verena Roth and Florian Erlbeck. As MUCKEMACHER they are turning children’s listening habits upside down. Now the kids groove to the sounds of Cumbia, Ska, Rocksteady, HipHop, Mambo and Dub, songs far outside of the mainstream that flow into the dancing legs, and videos that recall the Dadaist collages of Hannah Höch or the Bauhaus artist László Moholy Nagy. Their albums are about everything that moves kids and their parents – about joy and fun, but also about topics like exclusion and our current throwaway society. They sweeten up the current quarantine with living-room concerts and the grandiose song CHASE CORONA OUT OF TOWN1 and at the same time draw attention to the precarious situation of artists in lockdown.
SIBYLLE FENDT
(*1974, Karlsruhe) 1993–1995 Master’s programme in art history, sociology and philosophy at Karlsruhe University. 1996–2002 photography studies at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. 2003 Swart Masterclass, Word Press Photo Foundation. 2004–2006 guest study programme at the Städel School in Frankfurt am Main with Wolfgang Tillmans. 2008–2019 lecturer at the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin. Member of OSTKREUZ since 2010. Published GÄRTNERS REISE (Gardner’s Trip), Kehrer Verlang, Heidelberg, in 2012. 2019–2020 administrative professor at Hochschule Hannover in the discipline of photojournalism and documentary photography. 2020 group exhibition TRAUERN (Mourning), Kunsthalle Hamburg; publication HOLZBACHTAL, NOTHING, NOTHING, a book about waiting and nothingness in the refugee camp H8 in the Black Forest. Published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg.