Ausstellung: Islands of Time von Niccolò Masini – Eröffnung mit Pole, JakoJako & Rubén Nsue, Sunroof, Nicolas Bougaïeff

silent green & Miller-Zillmer Foundation present

Founded in 2019, the Miller-Zillmer Foundation initiates and promotes international projects at the interface of art, society and education. It uses acoustic, visual and audiovisual formats to connect artists, cultural workers and socially committed people. The focus is on combining artistic practice with socio-cultural needs and promoting education and cultural exchange. Influenced by Daniel Miller's lifelong expertise in music and Diáne Zillmer's experience in the arts and education, the foundation creates platforms for creative work, learning and social dialog.

Exhibition: Islands of Time by Niccolò Masini
The result of a joint collaboration between the Miller-Zillmer Foundation and silent green, Islands of Time by Niccolò Masini comprises a coherent ensemble of works created as part of the Miller-Zillmer Foundation's Vision into the Future program (2019-2022). Situated between territories, communities and perspectives, Islands of Time explores the relationships between the formation of immaterial senses of belonging and the construction of geographical identity. In an attempt to overcome linear notions of time, the exhibition approaches themes of memory and movement by understanding the past, present and future as closely intertwined within a global geopolitical context.

Alternating between the Western Sahara, the Italian-French border region of Ventimiglia/Menton, Argentina and the Aeolian archipelago, the exhibited works emerge from the interplay of different languages of expression. They raise questions about individual and collective reactions to the complex realities of different forms of geographical belonging. In this sense, Islands of Time proposes spatial investigations and analytical discourses that go beyond mere territorial references, tracing the mobile borders that consolidate the states of "imagined" deterritorialization processes through various forms of written and oral knowledge.

Niccolò Masini
Niccolò Masini is an artist, researcher and PhD candidate in New Media and Critical-Curatorial Practices of Contemporary Creation at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. His practice explores the legacies inscribed in the politics of time, space and memory and deals with the possibilities that emerge between spatial modalities and socio-cultural frameworks. His work and research has been exhibited internationally, including at the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska (MSURS), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA-Skopje), the Watermill Center in New York City and the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts in Indonesia.

On August 6, we will celebrate the official opening of Islands of Time in the studios. The following artists will also perform in the Kuppelhalle. Admission to the exhibition is free of charge; tickets for the concerts are available via the ticket link below. Islands of Time will be on display until August 16.

Pole
Berlin-based producer and mastering wizard Stefan Betke, alias Pole, has been following in the footsteps of minimal techno, ambient and dub since the 1990s. His latest releases sound both concentrated and open, deeply anchored in bass and yet remarkably light. Dub is no longer a genre here, but a way of thinking: Echo as memory, space as instrument, silence as secret co-producer. He recently released remixes of his latest album Tempus with contributions from Sleaford Mods, Alessandro Cortini and Rrose.

JakoJako & Rubén Nsue
Berlin-based modular synthesizer specialist, producer and DJ Sibel Koçer aka JakoJako is dedicated to exploring the spaces that open up between the technical and emotional sides of electronic music, cultivating a relationship with sound that incorporates both in-depth knowledge and improvisation and intuition. She recently released a series of remixes of her latest album Tết 41.

She is currently performing exclusively with Rubén Nsue Mbese. The Madrid-born dancer began his dance career in his home city, where he studied jazz and modern dance. He furthered his artistic training in Barcelona, London and New York, where he honed his skills in dance theater, contemporary dance and hip-hop. Nsue has performed in several musicals, including well-known productions such as Hair and The Wedding Singer.

Sunroof
Originally founded by Mute founder Daniel Miller and producer Gareth Jones as a remix project, Sunroof have released three albums of free improvisations based on their shared love of Eurorack modular synthesizers over the past year. On record as well as in their rare live performances (most recently supporting Yann Tiersen), the dogma applies that nothing must be planned or rehearsed in advance and every piece must be played or recorded live with a maximum of 2x2 channels without overdubs.

Nicolas Bougaïeff
French-Canadian Nicolas "Dr. Techno" Bougaïeff has long been celebrating that rare kind of electronic music that sounds like the future while missing the present in its asymmetries and complex structures. On his most recent releases, Bougaïeff has not abandoned the club, but has measured it more precisely: as a space for thought, as a pressure chamber, as a place of controlled ecstasy. Where others still say "atmosphere", he has long been working on architecture. Recent works include Sunday Morning at Panorama Bar When Things Go Sideways and Summer Beach Bar Where Jodie Foster Goes in the Movie Contact.

Thursday, August 6
Start/opening of the exhibition: 6 pm, silent green studios 2+3, Free admission
Music & performance: 7:15 pm, silent green Kuppelhalle, tickets

*The net proceeds of the event support the foundation's projects