Ralf Peters
About the artist
Dr Ralf Peters works as an artist in the fields of extended voice, performance art and conceptual art. He received vocal art training at the Roy Hart International Arts Center in France. His introduction to fine arts was influenced by the American artist Terry Fox, among others. For several years now, many of his projects have taken on the character of artistic research or long-term projects, in the context of which performances and other artistic interventions continue to emerge. As a philosopher with a PhD, he writes and blogs on the topics of art and voice. He is co-founder and one of the artistic directors of the vocal and performance ensemble KörperSchafftKlang and chairman of the stimmfeld association.
26.07.2025, 18.30– 19.30 – Elemental Calling: Wind/Air, voice performance
Art Nouveau Patio, 8 Tumska Street
“Calling the Elements: Wind / Air” is part of a series of vocal performances. Through these performances, Ralf Peters explores artistic possibilities for connecting with the four elements. These activities are the result of the artistic research project “vocal ecotism – vocal art in a wounded world.”
27.07.2025, 15.00 – 16.00 – Vocal Ecotism / Vocal Art in a Wounded World”
Assembly Hall, 6 Kolegialna Street
The big ecological crises of our time, such as climate change and the extinction of species, are an important topic in contemporary art. For several years, I have been dealing with the question of how art and art-inspired thinking can help to constructively address the ecological (and social and political) problems of the present.
This led at the beginning of 2024 to the research project vocal ecotism, funded by the Kunststiftung NRW and stimmfeld-Verein https://stimmfeld-verein.de/.
The project aims to relate ecological issues specifically to vocal art. By vocal art, I mean, in this context, all art forms that use the human voice; I am particularly interested in working with extended voice, an approach that uses all the vocal possibilities of the voice in an artistic way, often in the context of performance art.
Together with other interested humans, vocal ecotism is developing vocal art approaches that support and accompany an ecological transformation of society(ies) towards a less wounded world. What could an artistic relationship to the world look like that does not follow the capitalist logic of exploitation, but instead adopts an attitude of respect in every possible way? Ralf Peteres