June 2020
Room For Improvisation
L’esprit Absolventen Show, Portikus,
Frankfurt Am Main
Performing artists:
Mahya Ket
Kristin Reiman
Larry Bonchaka
Wolfgang Winter
Ian Waelder
Punch Viratmale
Luis
Matt Welch
Jack Brennan
Mimi Xu
and more
Description: ☽
During 4 Wednesdays of the Absolventen exhibition, a sonic improvisation took place in the Garden of Portikus while the sun was about to set.
The scenography: a secluded garden on an island, amidst Frankfurt’s skyscrapers and car traffic.There, 20 chairs collected through Germany’s famous second-handwebsite, Ebay Kleineinzage for the public and ourselves to sit on. We are suddenly surrounded by trees and geese, the cracks of amplifiers, instruments and voices.
[no stage]
The aim of this piece is not to be wonderfully musical nor to become a particular ear-pleaser for the crowd. It is rather the - sometimes -loooong... and complex way towards a collective synchronisation that I wish we subliminally investigate in real-time.
As a group of people who have never played together. Who might have never played at all.
The mistakes and glorious accidents and the time it takes to land on a harmony.
We have bored the listeners and woke them up at other times. Unprepared. But slowly, a trance like state mixed with the adrenaline of performing, might induce us and leave room for improvisation. Aside of being a performance, a show or a concert, it was a moment of togetherness, in a small gardenw here one could sit alone but not lonely,after a year of crisis and isolation...
June 2020
✮ L’esprit Absolventen Show
Staedelschule Portikus, Frankfurt Am Main (DE)
✮ Participating artists: Mahya Ket, Larry Bonchaka,
Wolfgang Winter,Ian Waelder, Punch Viratmale,Luis,
Matt Welch,Jack Brennan, Mimi Xu, and more.
✮ During 4 Wednesdays of the Absolventen exhibition,
a sonici mprovisation took place in the Garden
of Portikus while the sun was about to set.
The scenography: a secluded garden on an island,
amidst Frankfurt’s skyscrapersand car traffic.
There, 20 chairs collected through
Germany’s famous second-handwebsite,
Ebay Kleineinzage for the public and ourselves to sit on.
We are suddenly surrounded by trees and geese,
the cracks of amplifiers, instruments and voices.
[there's no stage]
The aim of this piece is not to be wonderfully musical
nor to become
a particular ear-pleaser for the crowd.
It is rather the - sometimes -
loooong... and complex way towards
a collective synchronisation
that I wish we subliminally investigate in real-time.
As a group of people who have never played together.
Who might have never played at all.
The mistakes and glorious accidents
and the time it takes to land on
a harmony.
We have bored the listeners and
woke them up at other times.
Unprepared. But slowly, a trance like state
mixed with the adrenaline of performing,
might induce us and leave room for improvisation.
Aside of being a performance, a show or a concert,
it was a moment of togetherness, in a small garden
where one could sit alone but not lonely,
after a year of crisis and isolation.