Mission Statement
EAT THE FROG is more than a collective of artists making music.
It is a vehicle driving our common search for meaning in unclear and constantly changing times, an artistic form of expression constantly in motion.
Sometimes revealed as a band, sometimes as curators. Sometimes as workshop-givers, sometimes as activists, often alongside many interdisciplinary artistic accomplices.
The intention is clear. In all the forms we choose to express ourselves, we strive for connection and exchange between people. Coming together in a space and feeling the collective connection that is constantly present but forgotten with increasing frequency in our social system, the focus lies on what connects, not on what separates us human beings: the feeling of collective energy and the resulting synergies, not intellectual but emotional.
It is political, it wants to emancipate and extract itself from existing social narratives - ones that create separation, ones that distort the focus on us as an interconnected community and prioritise instead the long outdated capitalist systems that do not place emphasis on people but on infinite growth and material ecstasy.
It manifests itself as an offer to bring people into contact with other, new narratives that are meant to create hope and courage in these times instead of further cultivating the opposite.
EAT THE FROG is more than a collective of artists making music.
It is an organism in constant motion for new collective, artistic, creative ideas and elaborations, for equal exchange and communication, in search of like-minded accomplices.
It is an organism that already carries the future in the very present.
Stefan Vidal Schneider
On the never ending and continuously transforming search to find, explore and create spaces and rooms, shapes and forms in an artistical as well as socio-culturally way, with the intent to focus on connection with other human beings in various, interdisciplinary encounters and doing this with fellow passionate and loving accomplices.
Originally educated as a jazz drummer and working as such within this field by way of multiple national and international music projects, I’ve slowly moved further and further away from being bounded to this particular classification, now listening to and following my own natural voice and intuition within, using this process to find a meaningful place in this complex and contradictory world.
Stefans Website
Tobias Link
Tobias is an artist, musician, sound explorer, educator, dreamer of worlds and explorer of new narratives for how we live together as living beings on this planet we've been given.
Trained as a trombone player and improvising artist, he developed an interest in how we come together as human beings, how we communicate with each other, how we learn and evolve to be who we are, and the possibilities of exploring territories beyond what we've been socialized to think is possible or the norm.
His research in human behavior and learning led him to explore somatic bodywork and he trained in the Feldenkrais Method and the Ilan Lev Method, both of which he practices and teaches regularly and which deeply influence his artistic expression.
What fascinates and drives him in everything he does is human connection, collaboration and love. Creating new ways of relating to oneself, to others and to the world around us. Creating opportunities and spaces that deconstruct reality as we know it and provoke new ways of experiencing the world.
Free from competition, envy, (structural) discrimination and long outdated but still inherent power structures, in short, personal and collective liberation and decolonization of knowledge and our way of perceiving and being in this world.
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