Laura Scherpers
Collective LIVALUCIA
LIVALUCIA is an interdisciplinary artist collective founded by Valeria Liva and Lucia Peters. Together they explore the interfaces between body, image, texture and interaction. Their work combines performative, visual and spatial elements to create immersive experiences that actively involve the audience not only through dance movements.
Their artistic practice is characterized by an intuitive, dynamic collaboration that is open to change and exchange. You are drawn to the interplay of materials, movement and narratives, which often involve ambiguity. The connection to the audience is crucial to your work – they are invited to think, feel and sometimes even co-create.
LIVALUCIA have presented their pieces in a variety of environments – from theater stages and open-air venues to galleries and studio exhibitions – adapting their work to different spatial and contextual conditions. Creating site-specific works excites them just as much as creating works for a black box theater setting.
© Yoshi Toscani
Murat Coşkun
Murat Coşkun’s main instrument, the frame drum, is one of the oldest instruments in the world and is at home in almost all cultures. It is an instrument that connects cultures in the deepest sense, as the frame drum is at home in many musical cultures in different forms and textures and also makes completely new ways of playing possible.
Based on his studies in oriental studies and ethnomusicology, the internationally renowned percussionist has adopted the leitmotif Connecting Cultures for his work and, as a musical border crosser, mediates between the worlds of the Orient and Occident. Murat Coşkun is at home in different styles such as world music, classical music, early music and jazz and is a frame drum specialist for various projects and ensembles. Traveling across the continent, Coşkun works with artists from all over the world, immersing himself in a wide variety of musical cultures and deepening his musical spectrum.
As a lecturer for oriental percussion, frame drums and rhythm training, Murat Coşkun teaches his own teaching method and heads the world percussion department at the Popakademie Mannheim and the multi-year frame drum course he initiated at the Tamburi Mundi Frame Drum Academy.
Marina Baranova was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and has lived in Hanover since the age of 19. Music has always been her home – as the daughter of a couple of pianists, she grew up in a world of classical music, jazz and improvisation.
After moving to Germany, she studied at the University of Music, Drama and Media in Hanover. After numerous successful competitions and debuts, she realized that a career as a classical pianist only expressed part of her musical personality. At the same time, she also became aware of another talent that had already made itself felt in her childhood, in addition to her absolute sense of hearing: synaesthesia. The ability to combine different sensory stimuli into a unified process of experience is a rare phenomenon. In Marina Baranova’s case, it is the combination of sounds and colors that leads to creative explosions in her head.
Since spring 2024, she has been running her own music salon in the Villa Seligmann in Hanover. The aim of this space is not only to listen to music, but also to reflect on it, discuss it and experience it in a comprehensive sense. Here, too, she focuses on music from a holistic perspective.
