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HERE HISTORY BEGAN tracing the REverberations of Halim El-Dabh – sonic and otherwise
The Egyptian-born musician, composer and scholar Halim El-Dabh (1921-2017) was a pioneer of experimental electronic music. He worked as a professor at an American university and conducted research as an ethnomusicologist in numerous countries in...
Aggregates
The concert series “Aggregates” introduces audiences to computer-operated organs as a “new instrument” and presents their yet untapped musical resources. The aggregation of instrumental and electronic music in automated pipe organs offers composers...
Sound Art Festival in Monheim am Rhein
Today sound art is not only part of contemporary music festivals but also an established field of the fine arts. Indeed, sound art has become a fixture at exhibitions around the world such as the documenta and Venice Biennale. The organisers of this...
Rooms of Resonance
What is a life? What is a composition? How does one express experiences and wishes in music and text? Based on these questions, four artists will enter the rooms of resonance of a literary-musical dialogue. The composers Iris ter Schiphorst and...
The Faculty of Sensing
The extensive exhibition and research project by the Kunstverein Braunschweig focuses on the African-born Anton Wilhelm Amo who pursued a career as a scholar in the German-speaking lands at the beginning of the 18th century. Born in Ghana, kidnapped...
Transhuman
In 2020 the city of Ulm will commemorate the 250th anniversary of Albrecht Ludwig Berblinger (1770-1829), who went down in history as the “Tailor of Ulm”. To mark the occasion, the Museum Ulm will present an interdisciplinary exhibition that...
Beyond the Black Atlantic
In this exhibition, four young artists explore the cultural legacy of the African continent, as well as the extent to which “blackness” has become a social construct of identity. Their artistic work testifies to a changing (self-)awareness within the...
John Akomfrah
The British artist John Akomfrah, born in 1957 in Ghana, co-founded the London-based Black Audio Film Collective in 1982. In this exhibition, the Museum Kurhaus Kleve presents works by this internationally acclaimed artist who has received relatively...
Beyond the pain
This exhibition by the Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen goes far beyond merely presenting what physical and emotional pain is and how it’s artistically represented. Instead it examines how pain can be overcome and the powers it can awaken, or rather what...
Leonilson
The Brazilian Leonilson (1957-1993) produced a multifaceted body of works which made him one of the most influential Latin American artists of his time. He was also one of the central figures of the artists’ group Geração 80 whose socio-critical art...
