INTERFACE - festival for music and related arts
15. September – 7. October 2006


BALLHAUS Naunynstraße Kreuzberg
RESERVOIRES Prenzlauer Berg


INTERFACE is the prelude to a new era in Kreuzberg´s Ballhaus Naunynstraße
under the new artistic direction of Elke Moltrecht. She has opened up the house
from its café in the cellar to the attic to the most diversified art forms and has
created a network of many partners. Among these, the Ballhaus Naunynstraße
counts a special collaborator: the Wasserspeicher Wasserspeicher
(Water Reservoirs) in Prenzlauer Berg. Two locations from the 19th Century,
both listed as historic monuments, which could not be more different: the water
reservoirs are half underground, dark, damp, acoustically alive and mysterious
- the Ballhaus Naunynstraße is a light architectonic jewel, hidden in a back
courtyard, surrounded by a garden terrace. Because of its acoustic versatility,
it presents the ideal space for the most diverse musical experiments and artistic
formats. These contrasts are reflected again in the works created especially for the
sites!

Included in the program will be concerts of contemporary, electronic and popular
music as well as older and traditional music; in addition, film and photography, light,
dance and concert performances, installations, audio-visual live improvisations and
a sound exhibit. INTERFACE networks artists not yet presented in Berlin with local
talent, one emphasis being on the collaboration with artists from Australia and Canada/Quebec.

Concept/Artistic Direction/Program:Elke Moltrecht
Curators for "Immersion 4" and the Exhibition in the "Großer Wasserspeicher":
Elke Moltrecht, Philip Samartzis

Locations:
Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Naunynstraße 27, Berlin-Kreuzberg
(U Kottbusser Tor)
Großer Wasserspeicher (Big Reservoir) , Belforter Straße, Prenzlauer Berg
(U Senefelderplatz)
Kleiner Wasserspeicher (Small Reservoir) , Diedenhofer Straße, Prenzlauer Berg
(U Senefelderplatz)

Infos:
www.interface-festival.de