Janine Eisenächer lives in Berlin and is an artistically researching performance and sound artist, curator and researcher. In her lecture and sound performances she addresses the conditions of artistic work and collaboration as well as questions about forms of coexistence and ecologies of perception. She works with everyday objects and materials with which she creates acoustic spaces through body-generated, action-based sounds and noises. In this she explores in more detail the interactions between the senses of hearing, sight and touch as well as the conditions of auditory coexistence between performer and things. She has presented her work at numerous performance and live art festivals and sound art events in Europe, North America and Aotearoa New Zealand. Eisenächer studied theater, literature and philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin and wrote her master thesis on the relevance of action-based material sounds in contemporary performance art. She is currently researching forms of auditory and action knowledge in the genre of sound performance and has been curating the Ready Making series at Errant Sound on this topic with Steffi Weismann since 2019.
Janine Eisenächer: doing sounds with things #2, Photo: Golo Föllmer (2019)