Christina Kubisch, It’s so touchy, 1975
Christina Kubisch
It’s so touchy

Christina Kubisch (*1948, Germany) studied painting, music and electronics in Bremen, Hamburg, Zurich and Milan. After an intense period of performances in the 1970s, she began creating sound and light installations and electroacoustic compositions. Her works have been shown in many solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and in the Americas, and she has won several awards, such as the special German award for sound art, the Deutsche Klangkunstpreis, in 2008. Christina Kubisch was professor for audio-visual art at the Saarbrücken Academy of Fine Arts 1994-2013. She is a member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and exhibiting, performing and releasing records internationally.

artist's website: www.christinakubisch.de

In It’s so touchy, Christina Kubisch plays a flute fitted with contact microphones while wearing thimbles on her fingers. The thimbles create rhythmic sounds that contrast with the conventional tone of the instrument. The film is part of the Emergency Solos series, which she created in 1975 in Milan after finishing flute studies. With a touch of irony, It’s so touchy plays on the cliché of new music and the interpretive role of women.

Courtesy Christina Kubisch

Document media
Video, b&w, sound, 5:10 min

Issue date
1975

Tags
laughter/humorous, music, sound