SAÂDANE AFIF / AUGUSTIN MAURS King Coal Laments / Musiques Pour Tuyauterie

In the organizer's words:

Some of the most beautiful accompanying texts to works of art in museums can be read in exhibitions by Saâdane Afif. The French conceptual and installation artist has invited acquaintances to add poetic "lyrics" to his artworks, which are often transformed from everyday life. Afif has some of these texts set to music by musician friends and performed live. This includes two compositions by French musician Augustin Maurs, which will now be performed at the Kunsthalle as part of the group exhibition "ABER ICH | DIE WELT | ICH SEHE | DICH" (with works by Saâdane Afif). The world premiere of KING COAL LAMENTS is a musical setting of texts for an exhibition by Afif with 70 sculptures by Polish coal mine workers. They show everyday scenes and portraits of the mining community; Afif's presentation of these "readymades" poetically addresses the ambivalent history of coal as a raw material. The second musical section, MUSIQUES POUR TUYAUTERIE, then refers to the most famous readymade in art history: Duchamp's scandalous original from 1917, which is also the basis of a current exhibition by Saâdane Afif at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. Ten pieces for flute and voice were created here - played on instruments made from bird bones and modeled on the 35,000-year-old flutes from the Hohle Fels cave, the oldest known musical instruments in the world. A time tunnel in which prehistory meets the avant-garde.

CONCEPT Saâdane Afif COMPOSITION, DIRECTOR Augustin Maurs KING COAL LAMENTS: VOICE Annerose Hummel ACCORDEON Eva Zöllner OBJECTS, DIY ELECTRONICS Mizuki Ishikawa MUSIQUES POUR TUYAUTERIE: FLUTE Susanne Fröhlich MEZZOSOPRAN Claudia van Hasselt CURATOR HAMBURGER KUNSTHALLE Corinne Diserens

A cooperation with the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Price information:

22 euros (50% discount with festival ticket) incl. admission to the exhibition