[oberlist] Fwd: [spectre] Fwd: exh. Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art, ZKM

[stefan rusu]

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ZKM | Media Museum
March 17th, 2012–January 06th, 2013
Private view/Eröffnung: March 16, 2012

The exhibition "Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art" presents for the first
time the development of sound art in the 21th century at the ZKM | Media
Museum and in a public space. From Futurism to Fluxus, through to Twitter
sonifications, the ZKM charts the history of Sound Art during the 20th
century. However, focus is placed on contemporary practices: with works
from 90 artists from which approximately 30 new productions from recent
years will be represented, the visitor gains insights into the unique sound
cosmos of contemporary art. The sound world visualizes its own exhibition
architecture, and the exhibition visitor himself becomes the generator of
sounds.

Visual experience dominates in numerous exhibitions. "Sound Art. Sound as a
Medium of Art" emphasizes auditory experience and transforms the visual
experience. The visitor is thus provided with the opportunity to become
acquainted with an entirely new sound cosmos, which neither radio, film nor
the music industry has been able to establish to such an extent.

The Futurist painter and composer Luigi Russolo published the musical
manifesto "L'arte dei rumori" in 1913 elevating urban noises to the level
of an art. In the 1950s and 1960s representatives of musique concrète and
the artists of the Happening and Fluxus movement (from Yoko Ono through to
La Monte Young) extended the performative aspect of music; hence, in place
of composition there could be randomness, in place of music, silence, in
place of an orchestra, the sea and in place of the musician, a horse. In
the 1970s and 1980s Industrial Noise influenced even pop music, as well as
punk music.

At the same time, loudspeakers became the building blocks of monumental
sculptures, light and sound were compressed into mobile immaterial
environments, inaudible realities were rendered audible in a synthesis of
arts and hearing was gauged again by means of psychoanalytical experiments.
Sonifications of information and medial communication, sound environments
as well as telematic or medial constellations exert an influence on the
present-day multiplicity of creative output. In this connection, those
political questions in sound art that lead to critical examination of sound
and listening, occupy a central place.

The exhibition "Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art" makes new sound
perceptions not only experienceable in the museum: passers-by may encounter
sounds in the three installations located in the forecourt of the ZKM and
five installations in public areas around the city of Karlsruhe. In
addition, a selected concert program with outstanding performative projects
enriches the exhibition: LaMonte Young, Xenakis, Cage and Ryoji Ikeda are
representative of the program’s broad spectrum. The exhibition’s wealth of
sounds has also been facilitated by the richness of the archives made
accessible to the Karlsruhe public for the first time to this extent.
Included are the "unheard avant-garde" from Scandinavia, the Broken Music
Archiv from Berlin and curated audiopoints from european archive
inventories.

Including works by John Cage, La Monte Young, Iannis Xenakis, Joseph Beuys,
Chris Cunningham, Alison Knowles, Paul DeMarinis, Max Neuhaus Carsten
Nicolai, Gary Hill, Georg Klein, Ryoji Ikeda, Christina Kubisch, Cory
Arcangel, Mongrel, Gordon Monohan, Cornelia Sollfrank and more.

Curated by Peter Weibel and Julia Gerlach.

Curator: Peter Weibel.
Project coordinator and co-curator: Julia Gerlach.


Project website:
http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/**storyReader$7919<http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$7919>
Press release available at:
http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/e/**presse/<http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/e/presse/>

An exhibition in the course of the 21th European Culture Days Karlsruhe.

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