Andreas Kahre is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines images, sound and text in a variety of configurations. Born in Germany, he has lived in Canada since 1979 where he studied visual art, art history and film at the University of British Columbia and Marine Design with Richard Johnson. He works as a freelance artist and musician, creating installations, sound art, and collaborative performance projects as a long-time associate of Radix Theatre. He is also the artistic director of the Gabriola Institute of Contemporary Art, and has been teaching in sound and media at the University of British Columbia and since 2014 at Fraser International College at Simon Fraser University.
Performing 'repose', ca 2023
Affiliations
The Gabriola Institute of Contemporary Art
Founding Artistic Director, 2005-present
Established in 2005 on Gabriola Island, the Institute is a Fluxus-inspired experiment in exploring the phaenomenology of institutional art practices in a more or less 'rural' setting. While largely notional, the institute has offered residencies, exhibitions,workshops and publications, and has presented projects with local and international collaborators. It is known for deploying a fleet of 'Mobile Response Units’ and, together with its sister organization, the Xenographic Society, for maintaining the QR Anthology and the AI autonomous algorithmic creation, evaluation and archiving unit.
Spectacular Data : Fascism and the Coded Present
Co – Curator, 2021 - present
Spectacular Data is an interdisciplinary research and presentation project that explores emerging registers of fascism and authoritarian rule, with particular emphasis on the current transformation of social and political domains by the deployment of technologies of surveillance, cryptocurrencies, social media and AI, hosted by the SFU Centre for the Humanities.
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Radix Theatre
Artistic Associate, 1995 - present
Radix Theatre was founded in 1988 and is known for collective creation of sited performances, installations and media-based explorations of the social sphere. Radix is recognized as one of Canada's pioneering experimental theatre companies and continues to produce works that challenge both established theatrical practice and the boundaries of public entertainment.
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Copeland + Kahre
Sound Installations and Radiophonic Works, 2010 - present
Darren Copeland and Andreas Kahre have collaborated as a creative team since 2010, creating sound installations and radiophonic works that have been presented across Canada and internationally.
The Western Front
I have I had a long association with the Western Front, as an improviser with the New Orchestra Workshop in the 1980s, working on exhibitions and installations in the 90s and from 1998 until 2011 as one of the collective's director/curators and editor of FRONT magazine.
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Gabriola Sound Symposium
The Gabriola Sound Symposium is an interdisciplinary event held at the Gabriola Commons and features sound artists, acousmatic works, installations and performances by local, regional and national sound-based artists.
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Teaching Appointments
Fraser International College
at Simon Fraser University
Lecturer, 2015 - present
Since 2015, I have been a senior lecturer at Fraser International College, where I teach a course from the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts curriculum in sound — including physical and psychoacoustic aspects of sound, principles of recording and processing, concepts of harmonics and tuning, sound in film and media, synthesis, sound art and noise in a cultural and philosophical context. I have been a frequent collaborator as a guest artist on performance and installation projects and have served as an outside examiner for several interdisciplinary MFA theses at Simon Fraser University.
University of British Columbia
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Adjunct Professor, 2001-2003, Sessional Instructor 1998-2001
I taught as sessional and adjunct faculty in the Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing between 1999 and 2006, with a focus on sound design, and worked on a number of theatre projects as set and sound designer.