Andreas Kahre

Andreas Kahre is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer, and musician. Born in Germany in 1959, he has lived in Canada since 1979 where he studied visual art and art history at the University of British Columbia. Since 1985, he has created and collaborated on many interdisciplinary performances and installation works, including A Concise History of Drumming (1990), Geometric Dining (1994), V max, (1995) Lowbrow (1988), and Aeronarrativity (2001), as well as print-based interventions and serial projects (The Self/incrimination Forms, The Bollwieser Emaki, Thanatoscopy, Logotopes), and virtual institutions such as Centre B, and the Xenographic Society. His work combines images, sound, and text in many different configurations, often in site-specific situations and in a variety of media, including broadcast projects such as Wireless Graffiti (1990, with Rumble Productions), sound-based performance work (The IKEA Plays, 2001, with Radix Theatre), gallery installations such asHidden Treasures (1996, Western Front) and Emergency Measures (2003, Artspeak Gallery and Savage Media) and new paper theatre includingWoyzeck (1998), x,y: the soldier's tale (2000, with Talking Pictures), and the Linear Animal (2004). Upcoming projects include Transit Lounge and the Aesthetics of Disappointment.

He has been a regular collaborator with many Canadian theatre, dance, and new music ensembles, as set and sound designer, director, translator and dramaturg, and has been involved in the creation of numerous theatre, dance, opera and performance projects across Canada. Long-standing associations include Rumble Productions, Radix Theatre, and Lola MacLoughlin Dance, as well as companies such as the Electric Company, Touchstone Theatre, PI Theatre, Ruby Slippers, La Luna Collective, Savage Media, Karen Jamieson Dance, and DanStabat. He is known as a percussionist and accomplished improvisor and has performed across Canada with musicians and ensembles including Amir Koushkani, François Houle, Lori Freedman, Resin, Cymbali, Hextremities, and many more.

Andreas was a contributor and one of the editors of L'espace traversée-Interdisciplinary Practices in Art, which was based on the Inter2000 Montreal conference on Interdisciplinary art and published by Editions d'art Le Sabord in 2003. Since 1998 he has been editor of FRONT Magazine and co-curator of publications at the Western Front artist-run centre in Vancouver. Currently, he is also adjunct Professor of Sound Design in the Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Andreas lives in Vancouver and on Gabriola Island.