Place of Residency
Hausmuseum
Marie Gavois and Michel Klöfkorn (SE/DE) have collaborated as a duo since 2014, working across sound, performance, film, installation, and text. Their joint practice draws on live collage, staged narration, intervention and documentary processes to create works that navigate the poetic and political layers of contemporary life. Over the past ten years, they have collaborated with artists in Nigeria, the USA, Scandinavia, Belgium, Spain, and Germany’s Ruhr region on Living in a Tableau Vivant—a long-term, site-specific project combining large-scale outdoor collage, installation, video, and live performance. During the first COVID lockdown, they filmed Jaime’s House at the foot of the Spanish Pyrenees, installing a 13×9-meter façade poster on the shepherd’s land.
More recently they have been leaning into the field of broadcast radio. ‘72 Soundchecks - a documentary film without pictures’ is a 22-hour broadcast radio piece reframing the unnoticed moments of concert preparation into a dense audio narrative, aired through Radio Art Zone for European Capital of Culture Esch sur-Alzette 2022. Over the past years they have been working on a collective project called ‘Tell me your passport story’.
A glass of orange juice, opening performance, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, 2020 © Foto: Daniela Wolf
Do you hear the picture_, Esch-sur-Alzette, 2022, 22h radio piece © Gavois Klöfkorn
Jaime_s House, Spain, 2021 © Gavois Klöfkorn Hernandez
Discipline
sound, performance, film, installation, text
Alongside their collaborations, both artists maintain distinct practices. Marie Gavois' work often in itself reflects the darkness of our present times, it takes its form in simultaneous social-realism and dream, she is producing noise-dance and text performances. Her current solo project, UNRST, explores visual programming languages and their potential for non-linear, generative triggers in performance and sound production. She is interested in the history of the body, the aesthetics of the psyche as well as in the aesthetics and socio-political reality of the working body - presence, repetition, and resistance.
Michel Klöfkorn works in video, visual research, and "nervous poetry." With a background in analog filmmaking and drawing he explores unusual ways to illustrate music and sound. For many years, he has been engaged in the process of "de-weaving" images and ideas - a cumulative body of work across mediums. Using analog and digital animation as well as AI and VR, he investigates new forms of spatial drawing, extending pencil and watercolor work beyond the page into physical and virtual space. At the intersection of poetry, the state of the world, and emerging technologies, his work seeks to open fragile spaces for reflection and resistance.
Together and apart, Gavois’ and Klöfkorns’ practices intersect in a shared commitment to experimentation, critical poetry, and interruption. They are members of Radical Film network and the crew behind Halffloor - a 60 second sonic artwork pod.
Discipline
sound, performance, film, installation, text
Alongside their collaborations, both artists maintain distinct practices. Marie Gavois' work often in itself reflects the darkness of our present times, it takes its form in simultaneous social-realism and dream, she is producing noise-dance and text performances. Her current solo project, UNRST, explores visual programming languages and their potential for non-linear, generative triggers in performance and sound production. She is interested in the history of the body, the aesthetics of the psyche as well as in the aesthetics and socio-political reality of the working body - presence, repetition, and resistance.
Michel Klöfkorn works in video, visual research, and "nervous poetry." With a background in analog filmmaking and drawing he explores unusual ways to illustrate music and sound. For many years, he has been engaged in the process of "de-weaving" images and ideas - a cumulative body of work across mediums. Using analog and digital animation as well as AI and VR, he investigates new forms of spatial drawing, extending pencil and watercolor work beyond the page into physical and virtual space. At the intersection of poetry, the state of the world, and emerging technologies, his work seeks to open fragile spaces for reflection and resistance.
Together and apart, Gavois’ and Klöfkorns’ practices intersect in a shared commitment to experimentation, critical poetry, and interruption. They are members of Radical Film network and the crew behind Halffloor - a 60 second sonic artwork pod.