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2012-12-29 we´ve come a long way, nothing´s save | entry by sven

in retrospective a year appears short, but this year was definitely not short. and it was dramatic in my perception. looking back, i cannot believe that i have managed all the things which seemed so big and impossible before. you just do it, because, at a certain point you forget about your worries and start, so you you´ll find yourself in new situation, or a a new life?

2012 for me will be remembered for the stress of finding a new place to live in the first half and the effort of making it suitable in the second half (see above, looks like a young hermann nitsch).
it will also remembered as the year of "the promise of absence" and other great shows i was allowed to participate in and as the year setting nearly everything on the next level. finally, the year that brought up penrose delta, an experiment in starting a rock project again, turning out surprisingly good and in need to be continued...

when you finally get what you´ve wanted, you are supposed to be happy and thankful. and concentrate on things you have set up for. still there is enough to do. and yes, i´m tired and happy.

yesterdays escape to the netherlands made us discover a parking space with no way to leave. this isn´t photoshop or something, it really exists. somehow it mirrors a situation of wishing and getting: looking for a slot to park your car you are taking everything you´ll get, the fact that you do not know how to leave again seems to be not of interest. well, until you want to get out...

once again, the promise of absence at simone czech´s galerie143 was a great solo show with all the support i needed. thaks for making this show, thanks for coming and watching and for making future plans based on it!
currently you can still sse the OFFENE GALERIE show at galerie143 featuing my "blown away".
galerie143.de

what remains? two catalogues! the TPOA and the KLANG catalogue, both great, both must-haves!

in 2012 AESTATE did not play live, but that is no problem, we had other stuff to do. there have been many releases of the group and we will do a new release in 2013. the drones are coming! it is going to be a strage piece, even for us!
aestate-online.com

sven piayda 'blown away'
OFFENE GALERIE
galerie143, dortmund
2012-12-08 — 2013-02-02
fri - sat, 4 -6 pm

galerie143
Simone Czech Kunsthistorikerin (M.A.)
Rheinische Straße 143
D-44147 Dortmund

+49 (0) 163 7847743

galerie143.de
info[at]galerie143.de

jochen schweizer with sven piayda 'AEV'
tinkrath group
PVS rhein-ruhr, mülheim an der ruhr
2012-09-20 — 2013-01-10

PVS rhein-ruhr
remscheider str. 16
45481 mülheim an der ruhr

fon: 0208 4847-333

pvs-rr.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-12-22 it´s got to be perfect (for two weeks) | entry by sven

welcome to the annual ritual: shortly before christmas you get struck by the idea that you need a tree. (thank god, we´ve skipped the gifts) i was never that much into christmas (I think easter is a lot more important and at least in the better season) but I managed to have a tree every year, and i´ve shown you every year in my journal.

well, it depends what you think a tree is, i was more into smaller plants, you might remember "molly", my tree from last year which became an internet star via facebook, it´s purchase, decoration and glooming. a masterpiece. one year later, "molly" is nothing but dead wood left behind in my old apartment. this year we are two in need of a tree, michi forced me to buy something bigger. finding the right tree is harder than finding a house to live in, we have been at least at seven places, some checked twice, to find the right tree. a soulmate in the shape of a tree, weird isn´t it? for a short period of time nothing else could be so important, because it has to be perfect. when you´ll get home you don´t even care anymore, after two weeks you´ll want to get rid of it.
let us be honest, do you feel stupid around christmas?

by the way, we finally picked a tree with double tip, reminding of our twin leadership. after last year there cannot be a tree without name, the big one above is called "dickie deluxe". just for your records.
merry christmas.

new ideas: a new idea for a video is coming up in my head, the working title is supposed to be "hard times" and should be set in a tropics house, with a smart phone, subtitles and slow walks through the plants. lets see, cross your fingers!

the künstlerverein walkmühle in wiesbaden presented the great show "KLANG" last summer, now the catalogue finally reached me. it is a perfect piece and very informative and is giving a good idea on the participating artists and their work. brilliant, must have, even without the show. still looking for chritmas gifts?

our small output for the end of the year. a short classical piece. the new EP (nine tracks in general) is about to be finished in 2013, we hope to find a label for it again.
released by digital kunstrasen.
download MARIA BACH EP
digitalkunstrasen.net
aestate-online.com

sven piayda 'blown away'
OFFENE GALERIE
galerie143, dortmund
2012-12-xx — 2013-02-xx (tba)
fri - sat, 4 -6 pm

galerie143
Simone Czech Kunsthistorikerin (M.A.)
Rheinische Straße 143
D-44147 Dortmund

+49 (0) 163 7847743

galerie143.de
info[at]galerie143.de

jochen schweizer with sven piayda 'AEV'
tinkrath group
PVS rhein-ruhr, mülheim an der ruhr
2012-09-20 — 2013-01-10

PVS rhein-ruhr
remscheider str. 16
45481 mülheim an der ruhr

fon: 0208 4847-333

pvs-rr.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-12-16 studio launch and completed 2012 portfolio | entry by sven

this has been a long home stretch and still this is not completed. i am always getting aware how serious things are, actually and finally - depending on time and money. setting up new places always has a supersticious layer for me: you spent so much time on installing new techology and the ability to produce something better and then (after being sure for a better future) things turn out as crap...

well, somehow my productions are getting more complex, allthough i do not seem to have enough time for them. opening the new studio does not really mean that we can produce more or faster, we are still setting up and need to invest, it means primarily that we have the office working and can focus on exhibitions and commissions. plus: the christmas season will slow down everything even more. anyway, this is the funny studio site (inspired by damien hirst´s web home) just have fun with it and enjoy some insight views from time to time and feel free to contact us and develop common projects:
svenpiayda.com/studio

i have promised to update the portfolio months ago (which means to pick stuff you want to have published) and i managed to do it now, finally. looking at it it seems quite limited, the quantity of my annual productions has decreased, i hope you do not miss the quality...?

svenpiayda.com/photography

i want to come up with more again, there are a lot of ideas, even for a solo show in 2014. well, chasing time.

another view on the old place from happier days. the memory embraces everything with a romantic blanket, new rooms look plain and neutral. creating good memories is hard work.

our small output for the end of the year. a short classical piece. the new EP ( nine tracks in general) is about to be finished in 2013, we hope to find a label for it again.
released by digital kunstrasen.
download MARIA BACH EP
digitalkunstrasen.net
aestate-online.com

2012-12-04 first notes from the new place | entry by sven

wow, here we go again, a lot faster than expected and i have expected the worst. setting-up and moving was stressful, now i´m sitting in the new place, finally. still there is so much left to do, i cannot concentrate on production, it is still about carrying stuff from one room to the other, still wondering where certain things are. within this chaos, i´m always looking for some time to sleep.

i´m glad to have a small studio now, featuring a place for production, a depot and an office. taking care about all these things makes me sometimes forget what i was actually about to do. what did wanted to produce with all these stuff? and when?

we are very exhausted and we cannot find time off. but i really hope for a new and fresh start next year. wake me when spring arrives.

i have promised a hundred times to update the 2012 photographic portfolio, but i did not. i will do it even this year. also there is a new group show catalogue i have to tell you about!

let us be patient and confident, the only way is up!

google´s view on the old place, just another example, we´ll have a look on it from time to time and on it´s supposed transformation. i have updated all the address files in this site, now you can write and call me again like before!

studio closed, still. getting shape takes time. new projects on the schedule.

our small output for the end of the year. a short classical piece. we have great material to come up in 2013. you will be surprised, definitely!
released by digital kunstrasen.
download MARIA BACH EP
digitalkunstrasen.net
aestate-online.com

coming up:
sven piayda 'blown away'
OFFENE GALERIE
galerie143, dortmund
2012-12-xx — 2013-02-xx (tba)
fri - sat, 4 -6 pm

galerie143
Simone Czech Kunsthistorikerin (M.A.)
Rheinische Straße 143
D-44147 Dortmund

+49 (0) 163 7847743

galerie143.de
info[at]galerie143.de

jochen schweizer with sven piayda 'AEV'
tinkrath group
PVS rhein-ruhr, mülheim an der ruhr
2012-09-20 — 2013-01-10

PVS rhein-ruhr
remscheider str. 16
45481 mülheim an der ruhr

fon: 0208 4847-333

pvs-rr.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-11-17 we are moving, please stand by | entry by sven

back in cold february we knew that i had to look for a new place, finding it was hard and stressful, setting it up even more. looking back and counting the months there must have been only four of tough work, actually it felt like a year. moving sucks, no doubt about that, but it seems to be the right thing. more space for eveything, a studio, an office and for sleeping and cocking.
the rooms are white and clean, finally, waiting for all the things that i thought make me feel complete now packed in boxes.

if you set up things you ask yourself what you want to do and how you want to spend your time in the future. well, we´ll just do what we do, hopefully more of it, hopefully better.

please note: work goes on parallelly, of course, i am trying to participate and report in art shows and projects as usually, but i won´t be able to report as good as usually these days. even the studio office is closed, as well as the studio (the depot is already put together!), so there may be delayed updates and email responses. please apologise, i do not know when we are back, i promise to be as quick as possible!

google´s view on the old place, supposed to be erased, i guess i´ll tell more about that in the future, i´ll have an eye on the things going on here, curious what and when is coming up here. also a little sad, because i had good times here, also euphoric for the new place, which is great. thank god, google does not have pictures of the new place, anyway, i´ll only show you the old one..

studio closed, still. i hope to offer you some views into it in the future, we´ll see. art is a serious thing!

our small output for the end of the year. a short classical piece. we have great material to come up in 2013. you will be surprised, definitely!
released by digital kunstrasen.
download MARIA BACH EP
digitalkunstrasen.net
aestate-online.com

2012-11-05 in between worlds, here and there | entry by sven

recently there is a lot about old and new, here and there, living in the past and planning for the future, personally, artistically and technically.
"all new" seems to be the motto. well, lets start with the technical aspect: because one of my main cameras is broke and my time for taking new material is limited (down to zero, mostly) i started to process material which is older and to see if i can get it into my direction. above you see a dune as photographed some years ago in the netherlands now rearranged and topped with a black replica of the probe travelling forever in 'lightyears'. for a long time i hade the idea to make this replica image. a copy reminding you of something you cannot see: the actual probe deep in space...
for the second time i am trying to produce also a video piece in full HD to present this one and 'lightyears' as double projection one day...
by the way, the first try to come up with a HD piece was aborted, it was technically complex and the result appeard not very convincing, well, there is a lot to skip.

so this is my picture of these days, as often these days, i´m trying to be analytic in my work, turning out to find a personal biographic layer in it...

more trivia, a snapshot of my old studio (below) mostly used as depot for the older stuff and one room of the new studio (above) waiting to be filled. therse rooms witness great plans, cross your fingers...
well, two studios, but no bed. there isn´t time for sleeping anyway...

our small output for the end of the year. a short classical piece. we have great material to come up in 2013. you will be surprised, definitely!
released by digital kunstrasen.
download MARIA BACH EP
digitalkunstrasen.net
aestate-online.com

2012-10-22 it is moving, slowly, finally | entry by sven

all this cryptic writing about changes and the new studio are becoming more and more real. setting up the new place was a lot more complex and lasted a lot longer... and it still does. it feels like the seasons are rushing by outside while i am stuck in timeless and static state of a building site.
after this effort, even within this big effort, there seems to be an end, the aim we started with slowly returns to our focus. we are moving on, very slowly, we have to be patient, please be patient if we cannot update everything as usually.

above you see a small version on my 2006 work 'rack' capturing all these current feelings. all this equipment enabling you to create and to perform is bound together, static and quiet, waiting. it feels familiar, somewhere in between, witnessing the past while promising the future, a rack waiting to retun to it´s destiny somewhere else.

looking back to this year, it really appears that i must have spent my whole time-off in the netherlands, so did i last weekend. honestly, these documented days were the only free days this year. saturday, it was time again to return to the kröller-müller museum and the hoge veluwe. the older you get the more rituals come up to repeat. some are fantastic.
(this great photo was taken by michaela best)

it is confirmed: we want to re-release our record of tides album 'timber' as digital version (with summer break 2004 o.s.t. as bonus tracks) in 2014, ten years after the original release. remember, we have never split up, but we do not really expect to create new stuff. well, you never know, anyway, this project is really slow, set up for 2014!
svenpiayda.com/recordoftides

not to forget the new output by AESTATE: the new EP will be out next sunday featuring three tracks performing bach compositions.
to be released by digital kunstrasen.
aestate-online.com

2012-10-02 surrounded by walls / appetite for destruction | entry by sven

this year will be the one about walls. you know setting up the new piece is really dramatic, tearing down things and finally building them up again — all for a better future...
parallelly i was working on a video piece called 'quadrangle' inspired by the SANAA building during the visit of the sichtwerk show this summer (see 2012-07-15 sichtwerk 2012 (back to the future)).
the small quadrangle on the top level offers only a small part of the endless sky, so i processed photographic material and an enormous render activity to set up a perfect four minute loop. the work will be available in 2013.
somehow it mirrors my own situation, i don´t want be work autobiographic, but somehow you cannot hide what is on your mind...

after discovering bredevoort and the bredevoort schittert festival two years ago we always planned to go there, well we managed it to go there in this year finally. all the off-time seems to take place on the netherlands. well, it is not much time...

above you see my 2005 work 'beach (showcase)', well, the original diorama was already turned into another diorama, with a more mediterean touch. now my work appears as a strange witness or memory, allthough it is digitally rearranged. a false memory, that´s all that remains.
svenpiayda.com/photography

also, the school from 'summer break 2004' is gone, broken down for a new one?
also the shed from 'shedhead' was erased. strange.
there seems to be no second chance for another picture, keep on shooting!
svenpiayda.com/photography

AESTATE 'nothing'. some output for the sleeping collective, waiting to perform, this video was generated out of the 'tribar' set-up. maybe you like it? get the EP!

sven piayda 'bass'
KLANG (SOUND)
künstlerverein walkmühle, wiesbaden
2012-08-17 — 2012-10-14

guided tour with dr. elke ullrich
2012-10-07, 3 pm
(costs: 3 )

Walkmühle 1 / Bornhofenweg 9
65189 Wiesbaden

walkmuehle.net

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-09-03 teatime in the rush of things to come | entry by sven

this is a kind of funny. this year i tell you nothing else but being busy, but all i post are quite relaxed pictures of me hanging around in the summer sun. well, to be honest, i have already posted every picture of these activities available, well, that´s it...

the building site is moving on, things look slightly better, but there is still a lot to do. also, the next exhibitions are in need to get planned. friday i inspected the rooms for my next solo show in 2014, a lot of space to fill. my recent working title is "show/time", but there is still some time to go by. actually, it is a kind of funny to be set for a solo show which is two years ahead, how did i go there?

yesterday i surprisingly escaped all the building sites and exhibition planning to the millinger theetuin, a small private garden inviting you to relax with a cup of tea. (remember the lst tea time in emden this year?)
being unhappy with a broke camera and a closed studio, i cannot stop thinking about and making images...

some tea in the garden, it looks like an island and it actually is in time. by the way, it is amazing how much money you can spend on hot water (with some dried herbs). maybe this is luxory?

the millinger theetuin is surrounded by nature, a lake, trees, wild meadows and of galloway cows running around without any borders. well, it is a real kick to cross a herd when it is on your path home. we felt like in a bad horror b-movie with rustling in the woods and black bulls in front of and behind you...
thank god, they appeard to be extremely peaceful and not interesed. scary anyway...

i wanted to come up with a big update of the 2012 works, but i did not. well here is at least a mini series of three works taken yesterday and compleated today. "tribar" uses to photographs i have taken yesterday and a merged version of both of them for the picture in the middle. three bars and three works appearing in a landscape which was supposed to be one image made of two.(just for the record) i hope you enjoy.
svenpiayda.com/photography

okay, it looks a little bit better today, but still a lot to go.most of the garbage is out. that feels pretty good.

sven piayda 'bass'
KLANG (SOUND)
künstlerverein walkmühle, wiesbaden
2012-08-17 — 2012-10-14

guided tours with dr. elke ullrich
2012-09-09, 3 pm
2012-09-23, 3 pm
2012-10-07, 3 pm
(costs: 3 )

Walkmühle 1 / Bornhofenweg 9
65189 Wiesbaden

walkmuehle.net

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-08-28 lazy summer dreaming / open the light | entry by sven

to give the most importand info first of all, this summer was not lazy. not for me. this year is about setting up anew, a challenge swallowing everything.
the memories of of this summer as you would imagine it appear quite limited, small slots of relaxing in the sun. fortunately, i managed to go through my favourite summer fanatsy: laying down in the gruga park in the shadow of a big tree, watching the tiny waterfall and drowsing to boards of canada´s "music has the right to children".

well, this year these moments are unique and more even rare than ever before, so i need to remeber and share the experience here.

the sun shining through the leaves, shortly before falling asleep to boc´s "open the light", actually the soundtrack for a sunny day in the park...

find out yourself, is there a better track for calming down and drifting into dreaming?

yes, and this is what my summer mostly looks like and we haven´t finished yet. nothing but a building site. dirty and expensive, will we ever live there? will my studio be in use one day?

this is me tired in the dusk for an interview. my contributions are quite limited these days, but i have to keep planning new things. the interview is supposed to come up in a big online culture magazine this autumn, i hope to find a lot issues setteld then. cross your fingers....

sven piayda 'bass'
KLANG (SOUND)
künstlerverein walkmühle, wiesbaden
2012-08-17 — 2012-10-14

guided tours with dr. elke ullrich
2012-09-09, 3 pm
2012-09-23, 3 pm
2012-10-07, 3 pm
(costs: 3 )

Walkmühle 1 / Bornhofenweg 9
65189 Wiesbaden

walkmuehle.net

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-08-02 studio closed and equipment breakdown | entry by sven

as i have reported before in a quite cryptic way, this year is coined by a lot of changes and effort to make them happen. the show at galerie143 was a big success and we are looking forward to do the next step. we have future plans in working together, i am planning further shows and want to work on more complex pieces. so i am recently setting up a new studio and also a new place to live and i will have to update some of my equipment.

above you see me on the tiny screen of michaela´s cybershot camera holding mine (in a strage posture inspired by a visit of a guided tour through the el greco exhibition in düsseldorf some weeks go).
my old cybershot never disappointed me, i bought it second hand and found some snapshots of an erotic fair with naked porn actors...well, now it is broke, after seven years of constant (daily?) use is has decided to quit working.
anyway, buying this camera in 2005 made me start to manipulate and compose pictures and to make documetary photos for the website, even some video documentaries. well, there won´t be too many ofe these within the next months i guess.
anyway, there will me not that much to report as i am focussing of setting up the new place.

summing it up, i think the reports and output will be less in the upcoming months, but i will restart in 2013!
just to let you know!

"path" from 2005 is one of the first works with my digital camera. classic!

time-off hanging around. that was fun. a nice way to get high, and to get down again. all for the thrill!

sven piayda 'summer break 2004'
AUS DEM LEBEN DER TISCHE...
museum abtei liesborn, wadersloh-liesborn
2012-06-17 — 2012-08-19

Museum Abtei Liesborn des Kreises Warendorf
Abteiring 8
59329 Wadersloh-Liesborn

Tel.: 02523 / 98 24 0
Fax: 02523 / 98 24 11

E-Mail: info(at)museum-abtei-liesborn.de

Öffnungszeiten: Di - Fr.: 9 bis 12 Uhr und 14-17 Uhr Samstag und Sonntag: 14 bis 17 Uhr Montags und an allen Feiertagen geschlossen.

www.museum-abtei-liesborn.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-07-15 sichtwerk 2012 (back to the future) | entry by sven

sichtwerk is back. the annual showing of art and design students of the essen-duisburg university. back in the days we were allowed to hang our works into the zollverein buildings, the current students have the SANAA building for seminars and showing, well that´s actually not a bad place to study and to show...

my relation to sichtwerk for me is special one, very proud to got into the showing back in 2002 with my strage cadaver photographs. i remember everyone looking at the pictures asking me "so this is what you do in gestaltungstechnik?"

well, no, we were not told to produce, but i thought (and still think) it is the best way to experience and to learn. and to show and to get along with the feedback...
the gestaltungstechnik department is running out und will be closed...

back to sichtwerk, i allways go sceptically through the show like an old man lamenting that we were better, but honestly i have to admit that the current show has a good quality!

this is a piece which really gained my fascination. i forgot the name (i´m sorry). the monitor shows scenes from back to the future: the final scene from part one and the first sceen from part two are layed transparently on one another, exploring the same narration while filmed twice (for each movie). i don´t know if this is big art (i don´t know if it is supposed to be) but it remind me on a work by laurent montaron called BALBVTIO showing the same narration als twice filmed on two screens. which screen is right? maybe the truth is in between?
by the way, i am a proud owner of the back to the future movies on dvd, i had discovered it on the collection of friends and it was given to me straight away because it was supposed to be a surprising birthday present. well, the surprise was done, now it´s mine, thanks a lot!!!

familiar faces: wandering though the exhibition let me stop in front of gian-carlo chiarenza´s work. he is one of my former students, which makes me feel a lot older... you might remember his recycling sculpture as reported in 2010-01-23 madame new generation at europe´s art youth

the SANAA building made a big impression on me this time, even if i am usually very sceptical. the top level has some free spaces in between, like inside balconies or a modern version of an italian palazzo. i know, it was not art, but it would be funny installation: a raining chamber, in room in which it is raining.

here is the proof again: me in 2002 in front of the cadaver works. i was young and had a bad haircut, but i was allowed to show my works and recieve a lot of misinterpretation. classic!

take a look around: who said the ruhr area is not green? this reminds me of a michel gondry video for a björk song, modern skyscrapers build into the woods, this is really what it looks like.
it ain´t a bad place to be.

also: the KPR opend for project #11 in a former church. a great overture yesterday, maybe not a perfect place for exhibiting art, but definitely to perform, we´ll see.

the MUDAM is too good to me: i recieved the mudam card, offering free entry and other benefits for one year. thanks so much, this is forcing me to return to luxemburg and this great museum, yeah!!!

AESTATE are working on j.s. bach. new output? a new EP? DJ date? maybe even live??? nothing´s save yet.

sven piayda
THE PROMISE OF ABSENCE
galerie143, dortmund
2012-05-12 - 2012-07-28
fri - sat, 4 -6 pm

galerie143
simone czech, kunsthistorikerin (M.A.)
rheinische straße 143
44147 dortmund

+49 (0) 163 7847743

galerie143.de
info[at]galerie143.de

sven piayda 'summer break 2004'
AUS DEM LEBEN DER TISCHE...
museum abtei liesborn, wadersloh-liesborn
2012-06-17 — 2012-08-19

Museum Abtei Liesborn des Kreises Warendorf
Abteiring 8
59329 Wadersloh-Liesborn

Tel.: 02523 / 98 24 0
Fax: 02523 / 98 24 11

E-Mail: info(at)museum-abtei-liesborn.de

Öffnungszeiten: Di - Fr.: 9 bis 12 Uhr und 14-17 Uhr Samstag und Sonntag: 14 bis 17 Uhr Montags und an allen Feiertagen geschlossen.

www.museum-abtei-liesborn.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-07-10 white nights 2012 aftermath | entry by sven

well, in fact, remembering the wheather disasters of previous years we were lucky. when the dates for this year´s white nights had been fixed, i planned to be there for five days, actually i only managed to join two, but that was great anyway.

it appears ironic, as the white nights always have problems with the wheather (it appears to be a curse) they originally were created by a hot summer and a damaged air condition years ago.

this year was coined by the discovery of the cocktail bar and the joy of ompositions for drummers, even without drums...

we´ll be back next year!

there must be a thousand photographs of the illuminated theater buildung, here is a rear view into the park and it´s lake...

my fascination for theater comes from the open air performance. somehow it expands the magic, even when it is over and the utensils remain in the dark. "danton´s tod" was abstract, pondering between getting an idea of it and getting nothing. great afterwards: arnold marinissen works out that counting is rhythm, therefor drumming...

classic approaches: getting illuminated like the trees makes funny images, you might remember the ones from 2006, this is me as full moon.

the raffelberg park is small beauty, even at dusk calm and majestic. the snapshot above may become the material for my first HD video piece. let`s see.

AESTATE are working on j.s. bach. new output? a new EP? DJ date? nothing´s save yet.

sven piayda
THE PROMISE OF ABSENCE
galerie143, dortmund
2012-05-12 - 2012-07-28
fri - sat, 4 -6 pm

galerie143
simone czech, kunsthistorikerin (M.A.)
rheinische straße 143
44147 dortmund

+49 (0) 163 7847743

galerie143.de
info[at]galerie143.de

sven piayda 'summer break 2004'
AUS DEM LEBEN DER TISCHE...
museum abtei liesborn, wadersloh-liesborn
2012-06-17 — 2012-08-19

Museum Abtei Liesborn des Kreises Warendorf
Abteiring 8
59329 Wadersloh-Liesborn

Tel.: 02523 / 98 24 0
Fax: 02523 / 98 24 11

E-Mail: info(at)museum-abtei-liesborn.de

Öffnungszeiten: Di - Fr.: 9 bis 12 Uhr und 14-17 Uhr Samstag und Sonntag: 14 bis 17 Uhr Montags und an allen Feiertagen geschlossen.

www.museum-abtei-liesborn.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-07-04 drowsy days and white nights | entry by sven

please do not say you did not come because you did not know! i have told you so, a hundred times, every year since 2006. after incidently discovering the white nights in mülheim/ruhr in 2006 it beaca a must see in every summer, and i did not miss a year since then...

tonight will be the first evening of theater, park illumination and avantgarde music, can you think of something better to get into summer? well, the last years were unlucky, chromekraut never had the quantities of audeience they would have deserved, somehow their appearance made the clounds rain cats and dogs...

as we know that it is outside, we remember the last year´s break-up of woody allen´s "gott" after heavy rain and technical blackout.

cross your fingers, i have a good feeling for this year, and i try to be there as often as possible (except saturday caused by my artist talk, see below...)

RFL has brought up the program in the nutshell, this is the schedule of thingst to come in the raffelbergpark:
ruhrgebiet-fuer-lau.de/weisse-naechte-raffelbergpark-muelheim/

last year´s final curtain without the curtain. a play set in a park makes the world become a stage. this is what it looks like without rain...

some melancholy news: digital kunstrasen, the netlabel from bochum/luxemburg has announced to quit the magazine after five years of releasing. before the label will come up with a final issue, i would like to draw your attention to issue #23. it features a long interview with me on AESTATE escorting the first release of us on the label DOMINION EMPIRE. we are recently working on further releases, we are about to finish a new big EP for the label, but we are afraid the the quitting of the magazine could be a bad omen for its future...
well, we hope for the best and go on producing, we want to put out new stuff, and if possible with them.
live dates are recently not on schedule, seems like there are too many non-professionals out there, maybe you are lucky and catch up a DJ date!?

PENROSE DELTA our pop offspring got a new site and a new video: "you breath underwater" is a short edit of the epic song from the album and was originally concepted as the opening title for the DVD. well, no DVD to come up, but the track.

dont´t forget: artist talk at galerie143 in dortmund, i will tell everything on the works at 4 pm and 8 pm, if you come in in the meantime, ask gallery head simone czech, she will know where to find me!
hope to see you!

sven piayda
THE PROMISE OF ABSENCE
galerie143, dortmund
2012-05-12 - 2012-07-28
fri - sat, 4 -6 pm

artist talk scheduled for 2012-07-07, 4 pm & 8 pm

galerie143
simone czech, kunsthistorikerin (M.A.)
rheinische straße 143
44147 dortmund

+49 (0) 163 7847743

galerie143.de
info[at]galerie143.de

sven piayda 'summer break 2004'
AUS DEM LEBEN DER TISCHE...
museum abtei liesborn, wadersloh-liesborn
2012-06-17 — 2012-08-19

Museum Abtei Liesborn des Kreises Warendorf
Abteiring 8
59329 Wadersloh-Liesborn

Tel.: 02523 / 98 24 0
Fax: 02523 / 98 24 11

E-Mail: info(at)museum-abtei-liesborn.de

Öffnungszeiten: Di - Fr.: 9 bis 12 Uhr und 14-17 Uhr Samstag und Sonntag: 14 bis 17 Uhr Montags und an allen Feiertagen geschlossen.

www.museum-abtei-liesborn.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-06-24 how to drift away sometimes: a drifting draft | entry by sven

these days are full of issues and problems, a hundred things to keep in mind, life appears very serious when you are grown up. nevertheless we managed to spend some time off with stuff we love and need to remind us that it is great to have time for... whatever.
during the last weeks we had much to do, we (sometime me alone) also had some days of fantastic experiences, often simply by drifting, getting to know about something and simply go there. unfortunatelly, there was much to do afterwards, so could not report or even fix the impressions. so here are some short reports of the places and events we drifted into.

facebook is a great place to get to know about events, spontaneously we visited the "verkehrte wald" in bochum. well, a summer impression to be in. today the installations are still there but the weather will not make it look like this. get some more impressions over at guntram walter´s blog.

bianca wickinghoff and oscar ledesma brought back living snails to the "verkehrte wald" into the "garten der lüste". this time the snails were more lucky: concepted with offering sugar and salt, here the vivid participants could only enjoy sugar. we have an eye on their work.

off-topic: as we aware that we do not need smartphones like all the hipsters i remeber michi saying sentences like "if we would have a smartphone now, we could look up where to go...." well, here you can see her using a borrowed phone for research. without success.

the "weltensammler" shows the bells by kelbassa´s panoptikum. this is me in a bell, well it is quite tight in there, a whole world around your head, so put it in.
well, we have an eye on their work.

another discovery some weeks ago: the kunstraum unten is a showroom in a strange underground setting delivering young contemporary art. a must see here: matthias danberg bringing up the last evidence, that CGI is as serious as every other discipline, maybe to one of our young century. we have an eye on his work, did i say something like that before?

well, there is great show running in düsseldorf, mainly video art, the entry is free, it features a claerbout work and it is open for about one year. why do i get there two weeks before closing? what´s wrong with me?
looking forward for the next show.

the first july weekend will be a great one, there are two events you should not miss and join me:
first of all: the artist talk at galerie143 on 'the promise of absence' on saturday july 7, at 4 pm and 8 pm. you can also meet me in the meantime.
plus: the white nights in mülheim adr from july 04-08 at theater an der ruhr, see schedule over here.
i hope to see you!
all of my exhibitions and events in the nutshell:

sven piayda
THE PROMISE OF ABSENCE
galerie143, dortmund
2012-05-12 - 2012-07-28
fri - sat, 4 -6 pm

artist talk scheduled for 2012-07-07, 4 pm & 8 pm

galerie143
simone czech, kunsthistorikerin (M.A.)
rheinische straße 143
44147 dortmund

+49 (0) 163 7847743

galerie143.de
info[at]galerie143.de

sven piayda 'summer break 2004'
AUS DEM LEBEN DER TISCHE...
museum abtei liesborn, wadersloh-liesborn
2012-06-17 — 2012-08-19

Museum Abtei Liesborn des Kreises Warendorf
Abteiring 8
59329 Wadersloh-Liesborn

Tel.: 02523 / 98 24 0
Fax: 02523 / 98 24 11

E-Mail: info(at)museum-abtei-liesborn.de

Öffnungszeiten: Di - Fr.: 9 bis 12 Uhr und 14-17 Uhr Samstag und Sonntag: 14 bis 17 Uhr Montags und an allen Feiertagen geschlossen.

www.museum-abtei-liesborn.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-06-05 WTF safari — how far to go for something new? | entry by sven

once again (as usually) we were in need to get out, to see something else these days, collect visual material and eat as much fish as possible. we returned to emden, where we spend a weekend (based upon art and fish) two years ago.

this weekend had something special: the whole city was a big party, celebrating the matjes herring season. being great matjes lovers, we appreciated the party, and not remembering what we had expected before we found ourselves on a big fun fair.
trying a lot fish and regional drinks i found myself sitting in front of a car carousel. looking at the decoration, i was fascinated by the air-brush art of it. but what was it all about?
i was wondering for a long time, then i decided to take a picture. a boy pulling a cabrio with another boy in it, okay, but why? (if you see something else, please let me know).

the right side was also strange: a boy abuses an elk as a bellholder, ringing it for the joy of both of them.
is that an early neo rauch and i cannot se it? do i not take enough drugs? is this what happens on other continents? what is that all about?
and: what does it have to do with a carousel?

have a look at it yourself: definitely a place to have fun when your eight, a place driving you nuts when your older. actually i just wanted to make a picture of it. the result is not convincing, but it tunrd out to wok as a funny blinking picture. click for larger version!

that´s me with a glass of (really sweet) wine sitting in front of the carousel. WTF?!

a perfect place to enjoy tea. if you really wjat to calm down have some black tea with milk with a perfect view on the sea. so did i yesterday. jealousy? well, you should be.

the photography site is not updated recently, we are focussing THE PROMISE OF ABSENCE so we are not coming up with new stuff. i am working on a many new works recently (see "attention" above, click for larger version) and they will be online and available this summer. plus video documentaries...
be patient, it´ll all come up!

sven piayda
THE PROMISE OF ABSENCE
galerie143, dortmund
2012-05-12 - 2012-07-28
fri - sat, 4 -6 pm

date for artist talk coming up

galerie143
simone czech, kunsthistorikerin (M.A.)
rheinische straße 143
44147 dortmund

+49 (0) 163 7847743

galerie143.de
info[at]galerie143.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-05-26 one more time (one last time) | entry by sven

i know, this is an endless lament, always starting with the same, coming up with the same thing over and over again. maybe this is pointing out that i cannot let go.

yesterday, i found myself in the opernbauhütte again, a place with great importance in 2009 for me and my direction as an artist. afterwards, as you may already know, we did not manage to keep the place vivid. all my returns a somehow a mixture of hope and sadness.

it became a strange ritual to take a picture of the opernbauhütte from one angle and starting last year to take a picture of myself in the top level of it. as we do not know the future of this place it always feels like the last time. with every visit i have to prove myself that i am there again and to convince myself that there will be one more time in the future. actually, it is not that easy.

the reason for returning yesterday to the hütte was a sad one, eichbaumoper collaborators came together to remember the late matthias rick.
matthias was a great guy allways looking forward to cross fixed borders, to use architectural strategies pull utopias into reality. contributing a tiny part to this great vision was an honor and pleasure to me and everyone working with him. he actually turned a dangerous and transitory place into a home for free thoughts and plan making for the future and the region.
his impact is not only concerning architecture, it is about develloping new ways and turning the world into an inspiring place. without any pathos i must admit that his ideas changed my way of thinking and confimed the need of innovating instead of accepting.
he will be missed.

i have already announced to quit this series, but i cannot. this is a shot from yesterday, as you see, the trees had been cut, the idea if the eichbaumpark will be out of reach.

it is like a movie, isn´t it? time rushes by anyway, here you can just see how rapidly. i allways thought that photography could stop time, well, if you use it to often it accelerates...

in june 2009 the eichbaumoper had was premiered at the eichbaum station in mülheim adr, planning with matthias, we played with AESTATE at the party afterwards. that night, audience was not rally into us, but we hütte was and is perfect for AESTATE.
today seems to be the right date to come up with this unreleased video from a fantastic summer 2009.

sven piayda
THE PROMISE OF ABSENCE
galerie143, dortmund
2012-05-12 - 2012-07-28
fri - sat, 4 -6 pm

date for artist talk coming up

galerie143
simone czech, kunsthistorikerin (M.A.)
rheinische straße 143
44147 dortmund

+49 (0) 163 7847743

galerie143.de
info[at]galerie143.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-05-19 y'all want a single (or food) | entry by sven

as i was fortunately joining the opening of static movement at museum folkwang yesterday, i could witness another great work by david claerbout, for me one of the most impressing and influentual artists. "the algiers’ sections of a happy moment" (2008) explores a single moment in time, stretched to about half an hour like the now with a duration of forever.
the work is conceptionally perfect, technically complex in it´s productuion and after all (even if you understand the production process) very poetic, touching and decelerating.

unfortunately, a vernissage audience is never openminded enogh to take the time to experience time, somehow all these concepts and great pieces of art are becoming flat by rushing by. my experiences return: people with the demand for good art are often not able to realize it (unless somebody tells them).

i do not want to turn it into a drama, let´s keep it as funny as it is, my own journal entries and posts are also proving the bigger interest in more simple things: as i often try to figure out things about art and life, i cannot deny that the responding to my releases are in higher quantities when i simply post pictures of food.
here we go:

tasty! last thursday was a sunny holliday and i witnessed the second meeting of the ruhr area based group of blogging girls (called the blogowskis), coming together to test and advertise a local spicy sauce.
before the girls tried it, they all had to take a picture of the "brunch", so did i. well, it actually felt stange, to see my ritual becoming a common ritual (or has it always been?)
also it was strage to be the only male person at this meeting, well it was historic!

this is a classic one: fried fish originally served in autumn 2011. remember? we shoulöd do that again!

the days of my youthful fascination for korn are over, but their strange song "y'all want a single" is for me summing up the flatness in culture. here they have a very aggressive complaint. if you like it smooth, try "the algiers’ sections of a happy moment" by claerbout at museum folkwang!

just another strange moment: the elections in northrhine-westfalia last sunday, with the sunrays comming through the pub window in smoky air.
a beautifull moment, not a happy one, i mean, not for all of us...

sven piayda
THE PROMISE OF ABSENCE
galerie143, dortmund
2012-05-12 - 2012-07-28
fri - sat, 4 -6 pm

date for artist talk coming up

galerie143
simone czech, kunsthistorikerin (M.A.)
rheinische straße 143
44147 dortmund

+49 (0) 163 7847743

galerie143.de
info[at]galerie143.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-05-02 time-off odyssey ending up with a shirt | entry by sven

having time-off is complicated these days, allways wondering where to go to calm down and to enjoy freetime is not easy. when your head is stuck in larger projects, some causing worries, you lose yourself in days covered in a grey layer of melancholy.
while waiting for big things to happen finally, i am happy to be told what to do to have a good time.
michi likes to visit design markets, and surprisingly, so do i. while she is looking for the latest trends in the scene it became a funny ritual by incident that i find shirts in need to be bought.

have a look at that: a moon shirt by ever green, a young düsseldorf based designer. i do not liek to be commercial here or telly you what to by, but i think we should have an eye on the site and it´s great designs!
ever-green.de

even more discoveries: the ziegenpeter in duisbug was a great place to start the day. well, some beach feeling without the beach, but sand, sun and aromatic cheese! find out yourself and see the ships drifting by.
michi´s report over here: bestmade.wordpress.com

i cannot wait to bring up the works, to see them installed at the wall. here is a tiny preview of the depot, we will install it soon. for the meantime: the coolibri has published a short article on the show, have a look at the press section. and if you like, read the last year´s interview with coolibri blogbird!

TPOA article from coolibri in the PRESS section
coolibri blogbird interview 2011

sven piayda
THE PROMISE OF ABSENCE
galerie143, dortmund
2012-05-12 - 2012-07-28
fri - sat, 4 -6 pm

opening 2012-05-12, 2 pm and afternoon

galerie143
simone czech, kunsthistorikerin (M.A.)
rheinische straße 143
44147 dortmund

+49 (0) 163 7847743

galerie143.de
info[at]galerie143.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-04-22 art cologne #46: biggest artwork & brown aftertaste | entry by sven

it is a ritual i cannot break, every year´s art fair is a must see for me. even when i´m suffering on a bad cold and having no voice recently, not going there was not an option. (i remember myself being ill in 2002 and it drove me nuts). i have to start with this just to be fair, well, maybe we had a bad start…
this fair is well organized, no problem to get parked near the entrance. of course, everything has its price and i´m am not counting pennies on a day at the fair, but 9 euro was shocking even for me, unfortunately this was just the overture. the day ticket is available for 25 euro (5 euro more than last year). everything gets more expensive, i know, but what for? well, you pay a lot without seeing something first of all, higher prices trigger higher expectations…
maybe this was the problem, i was quickly disappointed. in the last years i have complained about meaningless but multicoloured and loud pieces, this year even the hip stuff was missing. everything without direction, no trend to be labeled, all appears brown in the memory. the newcomer chambers had been exchanged by the new art dealers alliance to be better connected to galleries from all around the world, but what for? the new positions are gone. to be honest, we must declare the crisis of contemporary art - no, we cannot: as long as it sells everything is fine.
i know, this fair is commerial, no doubt, but after a decade i am still naive enough to expect something more beyond materialism? isn´t art about that?
this year´s fair leaves a bitter aftertaste: trying to memorize something special is impossible, the biggest artwork seems to be to make people pay rising prices without any promise of being better.

at least one piece actually impressed me, sunjha kim´s [S],black and white experimental hd video screened at the KHM student space, was worth watching and brought back some hope that there are still people out there struggling for the best artistic result, not only for the highest price to get sold. thank you!

a luxury parking space and the cologne cathedral in the back. a magic moment afterwards.

but what is my consequence? after a decade, can i quit my yearly ritual? well, even when i´m disappointed, i feel like an addict, even knowing the drug bad for you there is not really the option to quit. and i have to close with a quote by julian nida-rümelin: "ein experiment hat immer eine aussage, auch dann, wenn es daneben geht."

still: galerie143 head simone czech and me are busy with planning the show in may. set your schedules, the opening is scheduled for may 12, 2012, 2 pm and afternoon.
catalogue confirmed and in the printing process, neespaper interview done and gallery info over here.

ZWEI, EINS, MEINS
/ DER MENSCH UND SEINE OBJEKTE
museum folkwang, essen
2012-02-25 — 2012-04-29

museum-folkwang.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-04-12 status report from the interim lovers | entry by sven

this is a strange lament, i can bring it up at anytime. you are peering out to certain date in the future and then it finally rushes by. i remember applying for the EGGXPO in 2011, i remember denying my paricipation for 2012 but looking forward to the party and the lying in the spring sun in kuno´s garden. well the wheather created a different, more wet set-up, see above.

coming to the EGGXPO was great, like coming home and meeting old friends who still have plans for the future. a common future.

i can not tell you what i am doing right now, it is too much, actually, i thought this would feel like having days off, but well, this is just puzzling everything together - like always. yeah, the catalogue, a new home, new works, promotion, doing stuff for education issues and writing the journal.

below i have some pics for you, taken during my "safaris" as i call it, guess which had been taken on easter sturday...no comment, just some visual memories.

well, maybe one comment: did you realize the owl´s orange eyes. we´ve spend an evening together, i could not figure out what he was thinking...

when i take photos i always fear to do my final shot -and to produce only crap afterwards. and indeed, i produce a lot crap by shooting without thinking too much. actually, everything makes sense, above you see my new work "hover" as set in haltern am see, germany composed with a blue sky taken in maastricht, netherlands.
confident again...

preparing the DJ set made me hang on to rustie again. this really brings up some euphoria. i´ll promise some weird stuff for saturday, can you handle it???

still: galerie143 head simone czech and me are busy with planning the show in may. set your schedules, the opening is scheduled for may 12, 2012.
we are working on the catalogue right now!!!
you won´t believe!

DJ KENT GRANYON & SVEN PIAYDA
EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING DJ SET
2012_04_14 ANYWAY
berliner strasse 82, essen, germany

ANYWAY program schedule
ANYWAY website

aestate-online.com

ZWEI, EINS, MEINS
/ DER MENSCH UND SEINE OBJEKTE
museum folkwang, essen
2012-02-25 — 2012-04-29

museum-folkwang.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-04-07 EGGXPO feature: klaus jost's humour beyond the rust | entry by sven

next to kelbassas panoptikum klaus jost turned out to be another discovery. compared to the over boarding weirdness of the panoptikum, jost's sculptures appear quite minimal. actually, they are reduced to shape and material, even the shape is as simple as a sketch, the metal of the material covered with rust. If you like to, you can read his creations as small ideas fighting against their own decay, a metaphor for every artwork - and every living being…

jost´s motives are simple like animals, people, ghosts, electric cats and sometimes combined in 'woman with bird'. sometimes the snakes have wheels and play on quotes and jokes, adding another layer of meaning. the strong material seems to contrast the light beings of his creations, heavy and long-lasting stretching the idea. underneath the surface is always a lot space for exploding happiness and fine humour.

being a long time friend and collaborator with kuno lange, jost is experienced in getting the material in the right shape and putting sculptures of various sizes into action. his work is a fixed part in every EGGXPO show, above you see some walking birds in the exhibition park. A great way to present these sculptures.

next to his unique abilities as a sculptorist, jost also works as photographer, being very talented when it comes to close-up portraits. his portrait series of the 2011 EGGXPO artist was a blast, unfortunately not released yet. i hope for some picture soon…

meet klaus jost and his works at the EGGXPO 2012, this weekend! check out his websites for detailed info.

klausjost.de
derfotografierklaus.de
eggxpo.de

plus: galerie143 head simone czech and me are busy with planning the show in may. set your schedules, the opening is scheduled for may 12, 2012.
we are working on the catalogue right now!!!

DJ KENT GRANYON & SVEN PIAYDA
EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING DJ SET
2012_04_14 ANYWAY
berliner strasse 82, essen, germany

ANYWAY program schedule
ANYWAY website

aestate-online.com

ZWEI, EINS, MEINS
/ DER MENSCH UND SEINE OBJEKTE
museum folkwang, essen
2012-02-25 — 2012-04-29

museum-folkwang.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-04-05 EGGXPO feature: a night at kelbassas panoptikum | entry by sven

it is already a year now when i assured the kelbassas to come around and write a journal feature. now it is up for the next EGGXPO and i have finally made it.

i know their work for years now, from different venues and exhibitions, to be honest i never really understood. they use probably every medium or discipline you can think of without naming the single author of the collective. at first their work appears unstructured, naive and strange, denying paths to similar artists, there seems to be no system it relates to.

actually, their work appears like a jungle, you can get deeper and deeper to find more and more. the more you discover, the better you understand what is going on. the relating system you would usually search for is the world and its nature itself. the kelbassas take it and transform it into their own version. they are not criticizing genetic engineering or looking for utopias, they simply generate their alternative version of everything that is and could be. animals, plants and hybrid beings jump out of this creation, followed by drawings, plates, films, photographs and sculptures.

a home visit proofed what i was expecting: at first, korinna kuhn and detlef kelbassa are great people you like to spend your time with - but that was never in doubt. secondly, entering their home means also entering a complete new world, a collection of countless works appearing to form something between a museum, storage room, atelier and jungle of a far away planet.

scary and beautiful, funny and philosophical, sometimes decorative and sometimes useful, always offering a path into new ways of thinking: maybe everything is different…

or is it just para-terrestrial science? a glass cabinet shows some biomorphs and plates with pseudoscientific illustrations of new life forms.

machines from the 2011 EGGXPO: these sculptures appear to be as fantastic as the multicoloured animals and illustrations. one machine is able to transform all the money in the world into bread, another one erases worldwide stupidity, unfortunately this machine has never been tested…

kelbassas panoptikum is always worth a look, because you can be sure to find surprises. have a look at their website and take the chance to meet them and their work at the EGGXPO 2012! I hope to see you there!

kelbassas-panoptikum.de
eggxpo.de

plus: galerie143 head simone czech and me are busy with planning the show in may. set your schedules, the opening is scheduled for may 12, 2012.

DJ KENT GRANYON & SVEN PIAYDA
EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING DJ SET
2012_04_14 ANYWAY
berliner strasse 82, essen, germany

ANYWAY program schedule
ANYWAY website

aestate-online.com

ZWEI, EINS, MEINS
/ DER MENSCH UND SEINE OBJEKTE
museum folkwang, essen
2012-02-25 — 2012-04-29

museum-folkwang.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-03-29 non-stop eating at the conference hotel | entry by sven

all you can see above, i had the great honor to wake up this morning in a conference hotel again, i really like to check in and to check out from time to time. you somehow feel extremely important when you are booked into a hotel while you are not on holiday.

the conference i was participating in was about the future of teaching didactics, there is a lot in change these days, and a change in law needs a change in pragmatics. actually there was a lot to do, but we had enough time. when you are on a conference which does not feel like being productive you might get the idea of wasting your time which is pain to me. this time it was different and even completely the other way around, we created a lot and the ending of my two days in conference feel successful and satisfying.
this is what i take home.

being on a conference is funny: the days are structured along a time schedule fixed upon times for eating: breakfast, lunch, coffee (with cake), dinner and finally some crisps and nuts for the night. looking back it feels like we have been eating all the time, did the working periods interrupt our 24-hour-buffet?

as you know, itake pictures all the time, i do not take enough pictures these days, so I brought some equipment with me, you never know… some shooting, maybe one or two works. that's better than nothing.

also i have to tell something about the hotel: at first it is placed outside in the country, being an old castle, reminding me of an old house of the confederate states. sitting between these pillars after sunset with a beer feels relaxing, we should do that again!

plus: galerie143 head simone czech and me are busy with planning the show in may. set your schedules, the opening is scheduled for may 12, 2012.

DJ KENT GRANYON & SVEN PIAYDA
EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING DJ SET
2012_04_14 ANYWAY
berliner strasse 82, essen, germany

ANYWAY program schedule
ANYWAY website

aestate-online.com

ZWEI, EINS, MEINS
/ DER MENSCH UND SEINE OBJEKTE
museum folkwang, essen
2012-02-25 — 2012-04-29

museum-folkwang.de

questions? complaints?
click here

2012-03-10 of hope and despair, islands of escaping | entry by sven

there is a lot going on. as you can find out in my last journal i am facing a lot of changes forcing my into decisions concerning essential issues. there was a long time no writing, no time, space or even words, back against the wall i think i have to be through to talk about. the process i´m in is located on many levels and not setteld yet, but within all these grinding ups and downs i am in need to create islands of escaping.
as often in psychology, the patient is not able the core of his problem, but everything else, like locating a far away planet by relizing is gravity influence on the sun it spins around.
one way of escaping will be the dj set wit dj kent granyon at the anyway again. after metal on metal, they wanted us to return and here we are with a wider concept: everything is everything. this will be fun, hope to see you there!

the boys are back
DJ KENT GRANYON & SVEN PIAYDA
EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING DJ SET
2012_04_14 ANYWAY
berliner strasse 82, essen, germany

ANYWAY program schedule
ANYWAY website

aestate-online.com

the opening of AESTATE now has led to another off-time side project i had mentioned before this year. PENROSE DELTA is the band without ambition, need of success or profit, actually only here for it´s own sake. maybe you´ll like it, the first song and video is "pulling back the fingers" and we hope to put it out on digital kunstrasen. what do you think?

ZWEI, EINS, MEINS
/ DER MENSCH UND SEINE OBJEKTE
museum folkwang, essen
2012-02-25 — 2012-04-29

museum-folkwang.de

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2012-02-17 a sad carpet tells the future | entry by sven

these are strange days, full of stress, big plans and nothing happening — first of all.
i have problems to calm down and get away from all the work (feels like more effort for less success) we "escaped" to venlo again to have a look at the jorinde voigt/gregor hildebrandt show at van bommel van dam museum and to expand my radiohead record collection.
the show is impressing and worth a look, even when you just come for cheap coffee...
on our way to the museum, michi made a snapshot of a carpet hanging down from a balcony, looking like having a quite sad face.
have a look at the snapshot below, click it for larger version.

well, the carped appeard to tell the future, i am facing a lot of changes coming up, next to some big projects. everything feels strage now, i cannot tell the future of my projects even not if we and i can keep this website updates as i usesd to. hm, cross your fingers, we will have to shift to the next level, personally, geographiocally, finacially? big plans and promises, a lot to know by now, all to believe when it is over.
sorry, here are just some innuendos, cryptic outlooks, but i do not more now myself. let´s hope for the best and make sure that everything turns out as good as promised.

this year has started without big exhibitions, we even cancelled the EGGXPO this year, which was the right decision so far, there ar ea lot of other things ahead. the next thing coming up is a bigger project by the museum folkwang with a tiny contribution by myself (see mash-up picture abover), more about this in the news, soon.
plus i am working and preparing the solo show in this summer. i´ll keep you updated. hopefully.

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2012-02-01 premature praise and relaxed ambition | entry by sven

this is funny, making music for such a long time now, sometimes more, sometimes less ambitioned and concentrating on visual work, i am part of an exiting project concerning rock music again.
the fact that i was using the term "rock" triggered a lot of interest and waiting for results, a lot of people told me, even two digital labels show up with interest without having heard a single note. knowing the post rock maneuvres from AESTATE most people seem to have an idea what a band with real songs may sound like.

to be honest, this time there are no big ambitions, we started the "band" by incidence, recording stuff for keeping the head clean without any concepts or bigger arrangements, just pressing the recording button and save the first takes.
the album will be compleated by songs recored in 2009 sessions which have been abandoned because there has not be an option or album to fit on - until now.

so calm down, all this premature praise can only lead into disappointment, even if i believe the sounds are worth to be heard. and, to be honest, we should not call it just rock, i guess experimental rock would be fitting better, making me think of radiohead, population 1, nine inch nails or fever ray sometimes, but more as a jam.
i am surprised how far you can take things without bigger ambition, not to plan things up to the end, just letting them develop and keep the vivid sound.
recently we (and first of all me) are doing different things at once, thinking about the artwork, videos and the mix, no deadlines, it is just an off-time project and you will hear this by moderate drumming.

there is no date so far, but i think we will do this as free download only, sometimes i also think about a CD/DVD release, but just as an additional bonus... well see,

i just wanted to keep you exited, because i am.

remembering the last AESTATE offspring recording sessions for the RENERT TRIO. an experimental piece expanding my range of things possible. a beautifully strage chamber piece:

download and listen to renert trio´s butterfly terror
free via digital kunstrasen

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2012-01-24 the return of susie | entry by sven

recently i am drowning in work, there are still some projects ahead but there is mostly a lot of other stuff to do, to get everything together. these days have a lot potential to become euphoric, unfortunately also to get disappointed. waiting just leads to despair.
so i am thankful to do some funny stuff which also leads into something productive, even if i cannot plan bigger projects like joining the EGGXPO this year.

for a public art project i was supposed to contribute a photograph of myself and of an object which is mine. well, seeing myself as 51% as a visual artist, the "object" mostly related to myself is probably susie, my self-designed 1998 warmoth prototype. susie is the one and only instrument when it comes to create electric guitar sounds, i have never found a similar instrument ever after.

during the photo session (which is already finished after two days) michaela helped me doing it and finally she said: "just play a little bit for me!" so i did with her shooting and the result are these promotive non-threatening rockstar postures.

well, i hope to announce the screening of the result soon, for the meantime, listen to susie´s unique sound.
going through my record history, i have picked her most impressive appaerances. and: she will be even more importand for the AESTATE sound and: there is another rock band project coming up...with susie!

listen to susie on

dissident(en) club — science fiction
(rising sign, 2005)

sven — euphoria
(zany music, 2006)

the flamma piayda complex — the evidence
(zany music, 2009)

AESTATE — remount 3.10
(digital kunstrasen, 2011)

more strikes in 2012!

off topic: i must have passed this house a hundred times, two weeks ago in a red sunset it stroke my like a lightning: thee are no windows!
i returned the other day with a big camera to create a more close up view ending in a surrealistic picture. still a lot editing but not to erase the windows.
much thinking about houses these days...

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2012-01-05 the system will keep you stupid | entry by sven

welcome to my first entry of 2012. even with this dramatic headline i´d like to look back and tell a funny story about technical misleading.
as i had some days off after (and again) drowning in work we decided to spend a day in the museum, but it had to be something new for us, not to far away and art.
surprisingly, michi found the museum van bommel van dam in venlo. well, venlo was a place to go for fried fish, cheap coffee, begish beer and good records. how could we have ignored a musem of contemporary art over all theese years? actually, they are there for 40 years!
we checked the website and the builing looked great to us, triggering memories of the kröller-müller and similar archetectural materpieces surrounded by nature.
so we typed the address into our navigation system and followed, looking for a white building similar to the photography seen on the internet.
as we came closer to the city center, we were wondering where it should be, there seems to be no space... well a block of flats...folloing the navigation system...some meteres left...a seniors home...10 meters left to go...there it is!

no wait, what i had actually discoverd was the back of a gas station. the navigation system repeated that we have reached our aim, while i felt like a compleate idiot.
after turning off the system (which helps to become and/or to keep stupid) we found the museum at the other end of the street.
it is quite small but it has a great collection and an eye on contemporay dutch painting. we will be back, definitly. (i must have spend my half year in this city, let´s see how it works with the next one...)
the museum is also mentioned in michaela best´s 11 from 2011, telling hey best museums from 2011, over here.

flashback: i have been to cologne yesterday for fun and suddenly i found myself next to the building site lift outside of the cathedral. as a young student, our professor organized a visit of the roof, we got there by lift. as it accelerated, the girls screamed like on a rollercoaster. i´ll never forget that.

coming up
sven piayda 'band of twelve'
KÜNSTLER ENTDECKEN EUROPA
galerie im forum, leverkusen
2012-01-08 — 2012-01-22
opening 2012-01-08

mo - fr, 8 am - 6 pm

Galerie im Forum
Am Büchelter Hof 9
51373 Leverkusen
Tel. 0214 4064141

europa-union-leverkusen.eu
kulturstadtlev.de
invitation flyer

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