Soulnessless – Terre Thaemlitz

Art Is Unavoidably Work. – Terre Thaemlitz

There are few who succeed in bringing together art, theory and politics so consistently and convincingly as the American transgender artist Terre Thaemlitz (*1968). Whether as a musician, multimedia producer, writer, DJ or label owner of Comatonse Recordings, Thaemlitz generates and operates within a highly sensitive and reflected space. The clarity of this space gives her music, videos and texts their specific profoundness and poetic force. Thaemlitz’s work critically combines themes of identity politics – including gender, sexuality, social class, language, ethnicity, and race – with an ongoing analysis of the socio-economic conditions under which most music is currently produced and marketed.

MaerzMusik presents the first full live-version of “Soulnessless”. The centrepiece of the project is the 30-hour piano composition “Canto V: Meditation On Wage Labor And The Death Of The Album”. The audience is invited to spend day and night and day with and inside the “World’s Longest Album in History”.