LARA WEDEKIND, BORN IN BERN (CH) 1993, FINE ARTIST (BA) IS WORKING WITH IMAGE, SOUND & MUSIC. MAIN ARTISTIC INTERESTS IS THE NARRATIVE IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOUND AND THE (MOVING) IMAGE & SPACE. THIS MAIN INTEREST IS SURROUNDED BY HER BROUGHT INTERESTEST OF DIFFERERING WORKING PROCESS AND TECHNIQUES AND THE ONGOING ENCOUNTER WITH OTHER ARTISTIC FIELDS. IT IS FED THROUGH PENCIL & BRUSH WORKS IN ILLUSTRATION & PAINTING TO COMPOSING & PLAYING MUSIC LIVE, WORKING THROUGH PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO-INSTALLATION, MOVING IMAGE, FIELDRECORDINGS AND SOUND-DESIGN.
SHE IS CURRENTLY DOING HER MASTERS IN MUSIC IN SOUND DESIGN, COMPOSITION & THEORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS IN ZÜRICH. LIVING AND WORKING IN SWITZERLAND.
performance with BASSDRUMPEOPLE, Progr Bern, 2023 / research grant for HOW WE BUILD COLLAPSES, city of Berne, 2023 / exhibitional screening on Museum of history ME AND YOUR BIRDS, Video loop, Museumsnacht Bern, 2023 / scholarship Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, 2022 / artist residency Argo Vals, Pölva Estonia, 2022 / grant Pro Helvetia for studio exchange with Karin Fromherz, 2021/2022, artist residency Argo Vals, Pölva, Estonia, 2021 / group- exhibition at Cantonale Bern Jura, Pasquart Biel/ Bienne, CH: CORRELATION GIVEN OPEN SHEET 3-channel video, 2020/2021 / physical theater, corso estivi Accademia Teatro Dimitri, 2018 & 2020 / performance WEDEKINDWOLF, KaffeKairo, Bern CH, 2018 / exhibition Lucerne Switzerland: CORRELATION GIVEN OPEN SHEET , 3- channel video / performance MECHANIC/VOICE. ZeughausKultur, Brig, CH, 2017 / performance MECHANIC/VOICE, Viscose-stadt, Lucerne CH, 2016 / assistant directior short GAZE; Tillo Spreng und Etienne Kompis; Letterbox Collective, 2020 /
social work in field of pedagogy of play and children`s free play in public sphere at DOK, Bern 2018- 2022 / assistant line-producer US- feature MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE, Beni Lehmann, 2018 / live- cut & camera assistant Theater Lucerne for "Rigoletto", Bert Zander, 2016 / since 2013 performing with ROWAN , RUBY, MECHANIC/VOICE /since 2013 freelance for PIANOEFORTE
Foto Rob Lewis, 2023
LARA WEDEKIND WORKS WITH IMAGE, SOUND & MUSIC.
SHE EXPLORES THE LIVING AND THE NARRATIVE IN THE RELATIONSHIP OF SOUND AND THE IMAGE IN SPACE. SHE HOLDS A BACHELOR IN FINE ARTS AND IS CURRENTLY DOING HER MASTERS IN SOUND DESIGN, COMPOSITION & THEORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS IN ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND.
LARA WEDEKIND IS DOING FILMSOUNDPOSTPRODUCTION, VISUAL ART AND IS PLAYING CONCERTS AS A SINGER. SHE HAS WORKED WITH BASSDRUMPEOPLE BY WOLFGANG ZWIAUER & FABIAN BÜRGI, IS HEAD & VOICE OF THE ROWAN QUARTET WITH CYPRIEN ROCHAT, VINCENT MILLIOUD & VALENTIN VON FISCHER AND IS DOING AN ARTISTIC RESEARCH ON HOW WE BUILD COLLAPSES WITH LUCA LOMBARDI. SHE LIVES AND WORKS IN SWITZERLAND.
FOR PROJECTS AND WORKS GO TO : -> FINE-ART -> SOUND- DESIGN -> MUSIC -> ILLUSTRATION
sound design for GEIST-ASCHE-STAUB von Michèle Widmer, 2024 / perch & locationsound CRUSH solo theater for 1 car by Benjamin Burger, Tatwerk Berlin, 2024 / performance with BASSDRUMPEOPLE, Seefestspiele, Bern 2024 / sound design for QUI PART À LA CHASSE Léa Favre / sound design for INTUNE Laura Kohler, 2024 / performance with BASSDRUMPEOPLE, Moods, Zürich, 2024 / performance with BASSDRUMPEOPLE, Progr Bern, 2023 / research grant for HOW WE BUILD COLLAPSES, city of Berne, 2023 / exhibitional screening on Museum of history ME AND YOUR BIRDS, Video loop, Museumsnacht Bern, 2023 / scholarship Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, 2022 / artist residency Argo Vals, Pölva Estonia, 2022 / grant Pro Helvetia for studio exchange with Karin Fromherz, 2021/2022, artist residency Argo Vals, Pölva, Estonia, 2021 / group- exhibition at Cantonale Bern Jura, Pasquart Biel/ Bienne, CH: CORRELATION GIVEN OPEN SHEET 3-channel video, 2020/2021 / physical theater, corso estivi Accademia Teatro Dimitri, 2018 & 2020 / performance WEDEKINDWOLF, KaffeKairo, Bern CH, 2018 / exhibition Lucerne Switzerland: CORRELATION GIVEN OPEN SHEET , 3- channel video / performance MECHANIC/VOICE. ZeughausKultur, Brig, CH, 2017 / performance MECHANIC/VOICE, Viscose-stadt, Lucerne CH, 2016 / assistant directior short GAZE; Tillo Spreng und Etienne Kompis; Letterbox Collective, 2020 / social work in field of pedagogy of play and children`s free play in public sphere at DOK, Bern 2018- 2022 / assistant line-producer US- feature MAN WITH THE SILVER CASE, Beni Lehmann, 2018 / live- cut & camera assistant Theater Lucerne for "Rigoletto", Bert Zander, 2016 /
since 2013 performing with ROWAN , RUBY, MECHANIC/VOICE /
since 2013 freelance for PIANOEFORTE
past commissions for:
Kuizip acoustic jazz trio (concert-video ), Theaterabteilung der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (sound design) , "Crush" von Benjamin Burger, Dimitri Stapfer und Mona De Veerdt (locationsound), Bass Drum People (vinyl artwork), Boxen im RondElle (logo), The Pepper`s Swingers (visual performance, recording & mix), Tamas Szekely in Communications Biology, Schacht et al., 2022 (illustration), Wolfgang Zwiauer & THE ZOO Studio Bern (illustration), Akademie der Naturwissenschaften (illustration), Agroscope (illustration), Dachverband für offene Arbeit mit Kinder in der Stadt Bern (illustration), Claus Wedekind (illustration), Noel Schmidlin (video), Fachschaft Biologie, Universität Bern (illustration), Openair am Bielersee (illustration)
selected videoproductions on comission;