Kris Limbach (born in 1978) is a sound and visual artist residing in Berlin. Although his focus is on sound, he is also exploring constantly formats and aesthetics of cinema. In his sound art work he uses film-editing techniques, prepared drums, tape manipulation, no input mixing and a vast amount of raw and processed fieldrecordings. His performances for film and tape involves live super8 manipulation and scoring, an arte povera approach to expanded cinema. His experimental feature film project “The Lost Color” premiered at IBAFF Spain and he is currently working on the last Film of his CRISIS trilogy.
He released on labels such as Richard Garet’s Contour Editions, Staaltape, Modisti, Framework Radio, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Agxivatein and collaborated with artists like Pierce Warnecke, Hopek Quirin, Anton Mobin, Jochen Arbeit, Rinus van Alebeek, Miguel A. Garcia, Juan Antonio Nieto aka Pangea, Lisa Müller-Trede, John Bock and more. He curates, together with Pierce Warnecke, the emitter micro label and emitter micro festival, a biennial experimental sound Festival in Berlin. He is part of the artist collective Aktuelle Architektur der Kultur (AADK).
FILMS(Selection)
The Lost Color, feature Film , 60min, premiered at IBAFF, 2016
music for dysfunctional airports – experimental feature film premiered at Nordelijk Film Festival / Media Art Festival Friesland, 2014
antenas – super8 stop motion short, 2014
Cuento Incompleto – short film, 2004
Festivals / Concerts (selection)
2018 // IFFR-Sound//Vision Rotterdam // In Sonora Madrid // Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden //
2017 // Performing for John Bock at Berlinische Galerie and Kunsthalle Rostock // Performance at Spektrum with Guido Henneboehl & Thanos Chrysakis // Duo with Jochen Arbeit at Z-inema Berlin
2016 // LUNA Festival Leeuwarden // Light Art Festival Tunis // Concert at West-Germany w/ Rieko Okuda // Performance for film and tapes at Spektrum // Performance with Koikate at Theaterdiscounter Berlin
2015 “Sound Dialog” Instituto Cervantes, Berlin // Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben // Spektrum Berlin Opening Weekend // KK-stival // Transmediale Vorspiel Scopesessions AV Exposure // Performance for Film and Tapes, NK Berlin // Loopsider, Berlin // Emitter Micro Festival Berlin
2014 Practicas Contemporaneas, Murcia // Videoformes Festival Clermont Ferrand (w/ Panoptik) // Media Art Festival Friesland, Leeuwarden // Fonoteca SONM Murcia // Plateforme, Paris //
2013 Transmediale.13 Vorspiel //Noordelijk Film Festival Friesland // Dark Stations with Hopek Quirin & Kim Cascone // Salon Bruit, Berlin // KW – Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin
2012 Das kleine Fieldrecordingsfestival Berlin // C´est La vie, Madrid // Musikinstrumentenmuseum Berlin
Residencies (selection)
2018 Residency In Sonora / Sala El Aquila , Madrid
2015 AADK Spain Summer Residency
2014 Le Hublot, Nice, Fr // SONM Puerta de Castilla, Spain for “Music for dysfunctional Airports” // AADK Spain
2012 Chalk Hill Residency, California for “Sonic Landscape Interventions”
Releases (selection)
2019 XQX Release on Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
2018 AKP release with Pierce Warnecke & Anton Mobin on middleeightrecordings/emitter micro // DEAD & Juicy / Hells´ Bells Original Motion Picture Soundtrack with John Bock on Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König / emitter micro
2017 split-release on staaltape with Midori Hirano
2016 amp-rec release with Hopek Quirin
2015 PALAL-LEL – with Hopek Quirin released on Classwar Karaoke
2014 ‘begin _if_ (3)’ on Agxivatein // ‘Music for dysfunctional Airports’ on SONM
2013 ‘Kein Zurück!- with Miguel A. Garcia & Kerstin Podbiel – self released art multiple // HOPEK QUIRIN & ANTON MOBIN & KRIS LIMBACH – emitter micro
2012 ‘sonic landscape interventions‘ art multiple //’4 Corners of the night’ on Staaltape
2011 “2(3)” on emitter micro
“begin _if_ (2)” on modisti
2009 “begin _if _(1)” on contour editions
