January 18, 2020, 6:15–8 p.m.
The discussion is held in German.
Free admission, no registration required.
Since 2013 the trained composer and conductor Ari Benjamin Meyers has been developing music installations that are presented in art institutions all over the world. To this end, new compositions are created which are performed by professional musicians and performers, but also by amateurs in exhibition spaces and increasingly also in public spaces. Music becomes a social event through the activation and involvement of the audience in Meyers’ installations. On the other hand, memory, musical memory and the dialogue between composer and performer are central aspects of his artistic work.
Following solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Kassel and OGR Turin (both in 2019), his recently published artist’s book “Tacet in Concert” will be presented as an accompanying publication at the Ernst Schering Foundation. On the occasion of the book presentation, a conversation will take place between neuropsychologist Daniela Sammler (Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Neurosciences Leipzig) and Ari Benjamin Meyers, moderated by Christina Landbrecht, Program Director Art, and Katja Naie, Program Director Science and Managing Director of the Schering Foundation.
The book presentation and discussion will be complemented by the exhibition and performance “Solo für Ayumi” (2017) on January 18 and 19, 2020, from 12 (noon) to 6 p.m. in each case. Conceived in collaboration with Ayumi Paul, it is a central work of the artist on the theme of memory – on a personal and musical level. In the project room of the Ernst Schering Foundation a new interpretation of “Solo for Ayumi” will be presented for the first time, performed by the violinist and dancer Manon Parent.
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