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Lebenslauf
• • KARLA KRACHT (artistic name of Alex Zitzmann) born 1975 in Germany. Kracht is a visual artist, working in video, illustration and animation. Educated in Germany and the UK, she lives and works in Barcelona. Her video-installations and live video performances and illustrations have been exhibited in numerous festivals, art spaces and galleries around Europe; her illustrations have been featured in several magazines around the world. Exploring tensions between time, space and place, different reality levels, she humourously creates new connections, addressing a collective memory. Recently Kracht is seeking to draw closer her live (-video) practice with the procedures of illustration and painting. Using painted models and characters as a miniature film set, which she shoots live on stage, creating a new audiovisual language. As a video artist she collaborates with musicians, dance companies and dancers, architects, visual artists and programers.
• 2007 Trapped TV Installation
• 2011 2011 Niu, Espai Artístic, Barcelona, Spain. Audiovisual concert “Live from the surface of the Moon” La Poderosa, Barcelona, Spain. Video para actuación “Karaoke Girl” Niu, Espai Artístic, Barcelona, Spain. Exposición Colectiva. Ilustración “The Bright Side of the Moon” 2010 Miscelanea, Barcelona, SPain | Hafen 2, Offenbach, Germany | VJ-Festival E-Werk Erlangen, Germany. Audiovisual concert “Live from the surface of the Moon” Performance festival, Paderborn, Germany. Live Cinema ''Der Absinth Trinker'' Dance cycle “Dansa Ara”, La Pedrera, Barcelona. Presentation of dance piece “Anatomía de un sueño” Informe 004. Festival TAC, Valladolid. Presentation of “Anatomía de un sueño” Informe 003 Horizo TV. Barcelona. Video Performance “spellbound” with musician Ilia Mayer. 2009 La Fabrica, Espai de Fotografía. Barcelona. Video Performance “spellbound” with musician Ilia Mayer. Nodes de Gracia. Barcelona. Video Installation “hideouts_” (preview) FunDub Festival. Barcelona. Live video performance “SunRa”. 2008 YIF Video Festival. Yogyakarta - Indonesia. Video performance with the music band “Nervous”. Loop Festival. Barcelona. Video performance “Cube Pusher”. 2007 Moondog Studio. Frankfurt - Germany. TV Installation “Trapped”. “So Art”. Bordeaux - France. Exposition with “El Palomar”. Video Installation “Untitled”. Festival VAD. Girona/Festival Fabbrica Europa. Florence /Brasil Noar Festival. Video performance “Cube Pusher”. Off-Documenta. Kassel - Germany. Video Installation “Ssshining. Part 2”. Video Festival Shining. Chiemsee. Video Sculpture “Naked Tank”. Caixa Forum Palma de Mallorca. Video Performance in collaboration with musician Fibla. Collective exhibition “Masarte”. Barcelona. Video Installation “Rear Window”. 2006 Convent St. Augusti. Barcelona. Live video performance “Naoko Songs”
• 2011-2011 2011 Niu, Espai Artístic, Barcelona, Spain. Audiovisual concert “Live from the surface of the Moon” La Poderosa, Barcelona, Spain. Video para actuación “Karaoke Girl” Niu, Espai Artístic, Barcelona, Spain. Exposición Colectiva. Ilustración “The Bright Side of the Moon” 2010 Miscelanea, Barcelona, SPain | Hafen 2, Offenbach, Germany | VJ-Festival E-Werk Erlangen, Germany. Audiovisual concert “Live from the surface of the Moon” Performance festival, Paderborn, Germany. Live Cinema ''Der Absinth Trinker'' Dance cycle “Dansa Ara”, La Pedrera, Barcelona. Presentation of dance piece “Anatomía de un sueño” Informe 004. Festival TAC, Valladolid. Presentation of “Anatomía de un sueño” Informe 003 Horizo TV. Barcelona. Video Performance “spellbound” with musician Ilia Mayer. 2009 La Fabrica, Espai de Fotografía. Barcelona. Video Performance “spellbound” with musician Ilia Mayer. Nodes de Gracia. Barcelona. Video Installation “hideouts_” (preview) FunDub Festival. Barcelona. Live video performance “SunRa”. 2008 YIF Video Festival. Yogyakarta - Indonesia. Video performance with the music band “Nervous”. Loop Festival. Barcelona. Video performance “Cube Pusher”. 2007 Moondog Studio. Frankfurt - Germany. TV Installation “Trapped”. “So Art”. Bordeaux - France. Exposition with “El Palomar”. Video Installation “Untitled”. Festival VAD. Girona/Festival Fabbrica Europa. Florence /Brasil Noar Festival. Video performance “Cube Pusher”. Off-Documenta. Kassel - Germany. Video Installation “Ssshining. Part 2”. Video Festival Shining. Chiemsee. Video Sculpture “Naked Tank”. Caixa Forum Palma de Mallorca. Video Performance in collaboration with musician Fibla. Collective exhibition “Masarte”. Barcelona. Video Installation “Rear Window”. 2006 Convent St. Augusti. Barcelona. Live video performance “Naoko Songs”
Projekte
• 2007 Cubepusher is an experimental Life-Video Performance tossing video and sounds onto constantly changing geometrical forms in order to explore and create new ways of perception. The aim is to let the audience be part of this audio-visual trip, making them dance, move or solely watch in a gracefully fluent way.
• 2009 Hideouts_ hideouts_ a 3 screen play referring to our collective memories. they remind and remember. A revolution on a small scale that doesn't remain in the pictorial exploration of grain or pixel. It looks at the same time for a narrative renovation.
• 2009-2009 Hideouts_ hideouts_ a 3 screen play referring to our collective memories. they remind and remember. A revolution on a small scale that doesn't remain in the pictorial exploration of grain or pixel. It looks at the same time for a narrative renovation.
• 2010 LIVE FROM THE SURFACE OF THE MOON An Audiovisual Journey through Space and Time A Mix of Video Footage, Live Animation and electronic Sound Landscapes takes the viewer on a  humorously bizarre and surrealistic journey about new and old theories of our the Moon's mysteries. A small animation set, inhabited by ''lunatics'', is the main scene of this audiovisual performance. Electronic sounds accompany the actions and build up slowly to proper sonic landscapes A live video broadcast from the surface of the moon.... ....... Live from the Surface of the Moon is an audiovisual performance, where a mix of old, analogue lo-fi techniques deriving from visual arts and theatre (painting, use of mirrors, mirror, mini-stage, objects, lo-fi theatre lightning, analogue sound recordings) with contemporary live technologies (live camera, VJ tools, live video mix, midi for sound and image) is employed. The result is an organic, surrealistic and humourous journey through space and time. A live broadcast from the moon and the outer space around it.
• 2010-2011 LIVE FROM THE SURFACE OF THE MOON An Audiovisual Journey through Space and Time A Mix of Video Footage, Live Animation and electronic Sound Landscapes takes the viewer on a  humorously bizarre and surrealistic journey about new and old theories of our the Moon's mysteries. A small animation set, inhabited by ''lunatics'', is the main scene of this audiovisual performance. Electronic sounds accompany the actions and build up slowly to proper sonic landscapes A live video broadcast from the surface of the moon.... ....... Live from the Surface of the Moon is an audiovisual performance, where a mix of old, analogue lo-fi techniques deriving from visual arts and theatre (painting, use of mirrors, mirror, mini-stage, objects, lo-fi theatre lightning, analogue sound recordings) with contemporary live technologies (live camera, VJ tools, live video mix, midi for sound and image) is employed. The result is an organic, surrealistic and humourous journey through space and time. A live broadcast from the moon and the outer space around it.