Daniel Kötter and Maria Chavez

Elliot Stapleton sits down with video artist Daniel Kötter and
avant-turntablist Maria Chavez about their
recent collaborative performance in Brooklyn centered
around Kötter's video piece Ein Kinderspiel, an excerpt of which is available online.

Daniel Kötter works as a director and video artist with special
interest in multiscreening and multiperspective video
installations. His video and theatre works have been shown at
various international festivals, concert halls, theatres and
galleries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, France,
Portugal, USA and Mexico, amongst other KW- Institute for
contemporary art, Staatsoper Dresden, Konzerthaus Wien, Maerzmusik,
Rencontres Paris/Berlin/Madrid.

Maria Chavez is an avant-turntablist from Peru, living in New York
City. She focuses on electro acoustic sound of vinyl and needle and
has a collection of needles from immaculate to ruined that she
calls her "pencils of sound" and a collection of records that
provide the palette. She has toured with Christiina Carter
(Charlambides, Scorses), performed with Thurston Moore of Sonic
Youth in her New York City debut, and recorded with London-based
laptop artist Kaffe Matthews.