We are super honoured to have German producer and female:pressure ambassador Antye Greie aka AGF play our next ODD NIGHT.
Antye (or Agee, as friends call her) grew up in East Berlin and witnessed first hand the fall of the Wall and the rise of techno culture. As a teen, she experienced the down break of the dictatorship and took Philosophy courses at Bauhaus Dessau questioning her marxist upbringing.
In the German macho white hetero techno scene of the early ’90s, men were banishing vocals from the club, insisting on not expressing emotion.
Antye, on the other hand, rebelled against the trend by incorporating spoken word and poetry within her rough, techno beats.
Twenty years and countless awards and collaborations later, she is still a badass sound amazon, fighting to get women the visibility they deserve, whether is with online platform female:pressure or by collaborating with controversial artists such as Afghan refugee Kubra Khademi.
Antye lives in an island in Northern Finland, records sounds in the woods, posts poems on her twitter and has recently started a work using sounds from the Bucharest protests last January.
Whether she conducts an experimental children’s choir, does a radio show for documenta or an intricate deconstructed AV post clubbing piece, her work always conveys great emotion.
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Biography
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Antye Greie also know as AGF was born and raised in East Germany. She is a vocalist, digital songwriter, producer, performer, e-poet, calligrapher, digital media artist. In the last decade Greie released 20 full length records and played over 300 live performances worldwide.
The start of her solo work was marked by the artistic exploration of digital technology. On her first solo album HEAD SLASH BAUCH (Orthlorng Musork 2001), she converted fragments of HTML scripts and software handbooks into a form of electronic poetry and deconstructed pop.
The follow-up work, WESTERNIZATION COMPLETED, won an Award of Distinction at the 2004 Ars Electronica festival. Her collaboration with Sue Costabile involving live audio-visual improvisation resulted in the 2006 AGF.3 + SUE.C CD/DVD release called MINI MOVIES (on Asphodel). 2008 releases WORDS ARE MISSING exhibiting composition and calligraphic art and DANCE FLOOR DRACHEN (AGF Producktion) experiment with absence of poetry and repetitive statements on reduced or complex rhythms.
The artist produces visuals for her live performances and installations showing calligraphic stills and experimental video. 2009 the album EinzelkŠmpfer and an audiovisual installation Reflections On The Wall followed and regained wide attention.
Her poetry, which she converts into electronic music, pop songs, calligraphy and digital media, has been presented as live performances and sound installations in museums, auditoria, streets, theatres, concert halls and clubs throughout Europe and in North America and Asia in festivals such as Ars Electronica Linz, Sonar Barcelona, Transmediale Berlin, GRM Festival Paris, Roskilde, Sync festival Athens, AudioVisiva Milan, Intern. Open Book Festival Moscow, Sonic Acts Amsterdam and staged solo performances in venues like Pompidue Paris, ICC Tokyo, Akademie der Kuenste Berlin, ICA London and many more
Greie’s installation work began in 2000 during a residency at the Berlin contemporary art centre Podewil, she staged an open source event by inviting the public to contribute sound and visuals into the performance, 2001 she wrote the exhibition sound track Berlin Klang for the Main Sonar Exhibition in Barcelona, where she also put up a guerilla performance in the space attracting other artists and audience participating, 2004 in collaboration with Vladislav Delay she exhibited 21 sound pieces into black boxes and placed them into a white cube at the Garage Festival. 2004 she wrote a 50 meter wallpaper poem into a Rotterdam Exhibition Hall. Her works have been part of many group exhibitions and festivals.
Her latest installations have been audiovisual pieces in the Internet.
Other projects include the German electronic duo Laub, The Lappetites, AGF/ DELAY (with Vladislav Delay), THE DOLLS (Vladislav Delay and Craig Armstrong) and Zavoloka/AGF, collaborations with Craig Armstrong, Ellen Allien, Gudrun Gut, Eliane Radigue, Kaffe Matthews, Annie Abrahams.
AGF runs her own production company AGF Producktion .