« ABA's Air SALON » Whatever is Anachronic is Obscene. Maybe.

Estelle Hoy reads from her latest book, Pisti, 80 Rue de Belleville (After 8 Books, Paris), and from a series of text-based artworks. Mauro Hertig contributes a new vocal piece, alongside two existing pieces: the string quartet Silly Empath, and a multichannel tape piece, Liquid Contra.

Mauro Hertig is a Swiss composer with an output of ensemble, chamber, and site-specific works. He creates stage environments as game-like settings, using sounds of intimate speech, touch, and instructions.

Estelle Hoy is a writer and academic based in Berlin. She completed her PhD in Contemporary Feminist Experimental Literature. “Pisti, 80 Rue de Belleville,” released in 2020, was her second novel.

About “Pisti, 80 Rue de Belleville”: A wild nocturnal frolic among the anarchists and hipsters of Paris: Elke is a young academic with a troubled past that keeps spilling onto her present. Just as she is about to leave town for a writing retreat, she meets Pisti, a charismatic, hard-boiled, but luscious Hungarian left activist who runs an anarchist collective in Paris. Over one night in a Belleville apartment, old friends and new lovers discuss–and act–polyamory, politics, and the art of conversation.

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ABA Air SALON is a radio format produced by Air Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Berlin based artist initiative dealing with the distribution and documentation of forms of collective and experimental knowledge production. The broadcasts come from different locations in Berlin where we organize salons. At these salons we meet with local actors, artists, scientists and other cultural producers to exchange around research based artistic projects and practices. You can find more information about our program at www.airberlinalexanderplatz.de

ABA (Air Berlin Alexanderplatz) e.V., is a research-oriented artists' initiative founded in Berlin in 2009 by the artists Susanne Kriemann & Aleksander Komarov. The programme focuses on ephemeral artistic research and collective and experimental knowledge production. ABA’s operations consist of the conception, curation and implementation of various presentational formats: The organization of salons in different locations across the city, the release of publications, the stewardship of a residency-program and the maintenance of a website as a central place for documentation and archiving of these forms of ephemeral knowledge production.