The Singing Project: Offenes Singen zur Sommersonnenwende

In the organizer's words:

What if people could meet each other singing freely?
What if an exhibition space became a place of perpetual singing?

The Singing Project (2021-ongoing) is a collective practice and singing sculpture composed by Ayumi Paul, who was Artist in Residence at the Gropius Bau in 2022. The project will continue in the coming years at the Gropius Bau with an annual workshop on the summer solstice. Since its inception, the project has unfolded in a series of workshops, gatherings and an exhibition on site as an open space for free singing and listening to each other.

Rooted in systems of knowledge that include intuition, imagination, body memory and dreams as ways of being in the world, Ayumi Paul's activations challenge linear notions of relationships.

Ayumi Paul is an artist, violinist and composer. In her practice, she explores the interaction of phenomena through listening and engaging with the non-linearity of time.
Trained as a classical violinist since the age of five, she takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring how sound affects perception and the boundaries of what we see and how we relate to each other. In her artistic language, she uses materials such as paper, thread and sound recordings and integrates invisible levels of reality such as vibration and imagination as spaces for collaborative creation. Although she works closely with scientific technologies, she always returns to the body and its inherent possibilities of perception beyond rational understanding. Her projects often manifest as new languages, rituals and heightened sensibilities that can be directly applied to everyday life.
Ayumi Paul's work has recently been exhibited at the National Gallery Singapore (2018 and 2021), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2020), SFMOMA (2021), Auditorium Parco della Musica (2022), haubrok foundation (2023), Gropius Bau (2023) and Georg Kolbe Museum (2024), among others. In 2021 she received a scholarship from the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome. The Singing Project, a collective practice and singing sculpture, continues to unfold at the Gropius Bau in Berlin, where she was Artist in Residence in 2022.

Meeting point: Gropius Bau, 1st floor

In German and English language

Free admission

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