the CURATORS
The Curators were an all democratic Band which followed more an art concept that any musical styles. It refused the dictatorship of notation, a strict song structure or any other rules which were created in the last 50 years of music industry. The Curators were formed in Berlin in March 2007 by Anna Krenz and Jacek Slaski who run the art space- Galerie ZERO and by the freelance camera operator Patrick Classen. All three were non-educated and non-professional musicians. The democratic element can be seen on the way how the three musicians were set. Although Anna Krenz and Patrick Classen are the guitarists and Jacek Slaski is playing keyboards, this could have changed in every moment of their performance. As well there were no prepared concepts, lyrics and song orders during the concerts, it was a free form improvisation which refers to the free-jazz modulations of Sun Ra, the revolutionary approach to music by The Velvet Underground or to the monotonous sound-sculptors by Hermann Nitsch. The Curators played in different venues in Berlin, Rotterdam, Vienna and Warsaw, the band was dissolved around 2011.
the CURATORS
Art Princess (Anna Krenz) - Pink E-Guitar
JP Sonic (Patrick Classen) - E-Guitar
Jack E Zero (Jacek Slaski) - Keyboard, Tenori-on, E-Violin, Theremin, Drums, Vocals
Records
Since the Curators were improvising, never rehearsed, recorded material was never composed nor repeated.
We are the Curators
CD, 2007
Recorded in Wolfgang Seidel's studio in the basement of the Tempelhof Airport.
Contact high with the Curators
Vinyl, 2008/2024, Edition Telemark, Berlin
feat. Doc Schoko
Recorded in Kunstraum Kreuzberg, before it burned down.
Cover design: Nathan D'Arcy
Record available via bandcamp >>>
CONCERTS
LP release: Contact Hight with the Curators / line: the Fuckers, Club der Polnischen Versager, Berlin, 2024
SENSOR performance, feat. Thomas Wagner, Shoot-me Festival, den Haag, 2010
SENSOR performance, feat. Thomas Wagner, MAK Nite, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 2009
The Curators with Doc Schoko play The Godz, R’n’R Highschool, Berlin, 2009
SENSOR Performance, feat. Thomas Wagner, Galerie M, Berlin Marzahn, 2009
SENSOR Performance, feat. Thomas Wagner, Juno Lounge, Berlin, 2008
SENSOR Performance, feat. Thomas Wagner, MAK NITE, Jadłodajnia Filozoficzna, Warsaw, 2008
Sheriff Teddy, Berlin, Kylie Minogue Vorband, 2008
Kunstinvasion, Ausstellungseröffnung, feat: Floating di Morel, Thomas Wagner, Blumengrossmarkt/Berliner Kunsthalle, Berlin, 2008
Planet Prozess, Street-Art Ausstellung, Berlin, feat: Wolfgang Seidel, Johnny Zabala, 2007
The Curators vs Emiter, Galerie ZERO, 2007
Yorck Records, Berlin, 2007
Record release
In 1966, the New York avant-folk beat band The Godz released their first album "Contact High With The Godz", the whole recording session lasted only 32 minutes!
42 years later, in 2008, The Curators (Jacek Slaski, Anna Krenz, JP Classen), together with Doc Schoko, repeated these recordings at Festsaal Kreuzberg. This resulted in the LP "Contact High With The Curators", which is now being released on the Berlin based label Edition Telemark.
For the record release, The Fuckers, who were founded especially for the evening, are playing the Curators recordings of the Godz songs.
The Fuckers play The Curators play The Godz
on February 17th, 2024 in the Club der polnischen Versager, Berlin
Concert: SENSOR audio-visual performance with Thomas Wagner
15.10.2010, Shoot-me Film Festival, the Hague
Concert: SENSOR audio-visual performance with Thomas Wagner
30.06.2009, MAK - Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
MAK NITE event - Warsaw Calling
Organised by Marta Czyż
Concert: Kulturrevue present: Banditen. The Curators with Doc Schoko play The Godz
09.04.2009, R’n’R Highschool, Berlin
Concert: SENSOR audio-visual performance with Thomas Wagner
28.03.2009, Galerie M, Berlin-Marzahn
Recording: The Curators & Doc Schoko play Godz
December 2008, Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin
Concert: SENSOR audio-visual performance with Thomas Wagner
20.11.2008, Juno Lounge, Berlin
Concert: SENSOR audio-visual performance with Thomas Wagner
8.11.2008, Jadłodajnia Filozoficzna, Warsaw
MAK NITE event
On the MAK Nite evening the Curators have invited an artist and musician Thomas Wagner (Sensor, Herr Blum) who performed live action painting. The played the music, and controlled video projections on canvas by Tenori-on. Thomas Wagner was painting using an oil-paint brush with a touch sensor, so his painting was also influencing the video projections, distorting it. All in a loop of music, video and action painting. The result of the performance were two paintings created by Thomas Wagner based on the music of the Curators.
Concert: The Curators featuring: Floating di Morel, Thomas Wagner
31.05.2008, Kunstinvasion exhibition opening, Blumengrossmarkt/Berliner Kunsthalle, Berlin
Concert: emiter (PL) 28. Juli 2007
The polish electro musician emiter presents his new album "sinus" at the Gallery ZERO.
Afterward: emiter vs The Curators concert
Gallery ZERO presents "sinus", a solo project (electronic, guitar, loops and tapes) of Marcin Dymiter, who played before with groups likeewa braun, Mapa or Mordy. Emiter focuses on electronic, improvised and electroacustic music. He experiments with sound, mixing sounds which accompany in our daily lives, he looks for a new sonic areas for electric guitar. Emiter believes that music is everywhere and composing is an endless process.
Emiter cooperated and performed with jazz, electro and avangarde musicians like: Paul Wirkus, Rosą Arruti, Le Quan Ninh, John Butcher, Axel Dorner, Andrew Sharpley, Mikołaj Trzaska, Buni, poet Marcin Świetlicki, Raphael Roginski, Marek Chołoniewski, Tomasz Chołoniewski, Dagna Sadkowska, Michał Górczyński, Matthias Muelerr, formacja Chlupot Mózgu.
Emiter works and composes for off theatres, performs live to silent movies, cooperates with visual artists, eh is also music producer. He runs workshops, he makes sound instalations. Emiter performed in many countries in Europe, also in USA. As Emiter, Dymiter released eight records. Together with Krzysztof Topolski he developed emiter.arszyn project. Together with writer Daniel Odija he performs in a literature-music project, Daniel Odija_Emiter. Dymiter also runs publishing house sojuz emiter rec.
Concert: The Curators with Wolfgang Seidel & Johnny Zabala
11.08.2007, Planet Prozess finale & block party, Berlin
Concert: Solo on pink guitar
"Achtung! Achtung!" by Anna Krenz, exhibition opening, May 2007, BWA Galleries, Wrocław
