Conversation Piece

Johann Kauth graduated from the graphic design program of the Rietveld Academy. Using silk screen printing, risography and mimeography, Johann Kauth makes spontaneous and amusing zines, books, publications, prints and tape releases, flyers and posters throwing all sorts of print and design conventions out the window. Johann works with drawing as much as with found imagery, utilizing screen and stencil printing to provoke a colorful maze of multilayered ink jungles. Viewing his work is a slight psychedelic experience – vibrant in colour and animated in shapes with non-existing semi-dogs, drawn flame letters and other oddities that are a pleasure for the eye but also a bit not to understand.

On the side he also keeps musical avances like his somewhere between odd and danceable but infamous Hallo Gallo-nights at the OCCII in Amsterdam and his own niche band(s) and performed with a handful of projects: Laser Poodle, Cotopaxi, Fyoelk or spinning records as DJ Cosmo Knex.

Markus Steinaka DJ Schlucht is an artist and one of Ohlsson’s favorite DJ’s and radio makers. Markus makes experimental internet radio and amongst other things known for the DIY Church, an open internetradio project designed as an online sculpture. D.I.Y. Church is a weekly Live Radioshow and shares the freedom of speech with a special guest: A musician, performer, visual artist, collector, scientist, real man & no life… He/She presents his/her references and work issues in relation with a chosen theme.

Ohlsson and Stein worked together on the webradio project “Stem van West”. Markus brought his studio with him and broadcasted from bars, art schools, embassies, clubs and so on… They talked about making experimental radio, DJ-ing, art, music, the politics and meaning of mixing sound.