oliver augst & jessika ferriol
www.textxtnd.de | www.ferriol.de
Participants in
SoundLAB VI – sonic art project environments
soundPOOL – a challenge for imagination
*** Oliver Augst
Radical theatre forms, experimental music and entertainment on highest level in a “rhythm of the alternation” (J.L.Barrault)
born 1962, is a singer/performer, composer and stage-designer and has been working in several fields of art: music, media-theatre/performance, radioplay and sound installation since the early 90s. He studied visual arts with emphasis on stage design at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach, and popular music/performance at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Hamburg.
He has received numerous grants and scholarships, such as the studio grant from the artists’ house Mousonturm (Frankfurt 1991–93), a DAAD grant for art (Vienna 1994) as well as a grant for composition at the Schloss Solitude Academy (Stuttgart 1995).
His collaborations together with Blixa Bargeld (singer of the famous German band “Einstürzende Neubauten”), the “electronic music theater” (with Ehinger, Daemgen), Rüdiger Carl (pioneer of the European free jazz movement), the Japanese artist On Kawara (Dokumenta11) and the American art star Raymond Pettibon were invited at numerous international festivals of contemporary music and media-art.
Oliver Augst was a curator and organiser of the “pol” festival of new music in the Mousonturm artists’ house in Frankfurt (1999-2003).
He is a lecturer in Performance Art, Audio-Visual Installation, Stage Design and Aesthetics and Communication at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach and the University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt.
He lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.
*** Jessika Ferriol
Born 1972, is a singer, artist, musicologist and composer and works in several fields of art and theory.
She studied Fine Arts with emphasis on Sculpture and New Media at »Staedelschule«, Frankfurt in the classes of Thomas Bayrle and Georg Herold, and Musicology at »Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst« in Frankfurt. She has received many scholarships (such as »Institut für Neue Musik«, »Polytechnische Gesellschaft«, she works as a DJ and a lecturer, i.e. for Frankfurter Kunstverein, Dresdner Bank arts collection, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt.
She published several tracks and texts and also has collaborated with many artists and musicians. She lives in Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany.