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From Tuesday, December 2, the exhibition "Sound_and_Experiment_X_Lenbachhaus_Kunstbau" can be visited at Kunstbau.
For the first week of December, Dan Flavin’s "untitled (for Ksenija)" (1994) will give way to site-specific works of acoustic art by students in the "Sound and Experiment" program led by Florian Hecker (Bayerisches Spitzenprofessurenprogramm—Academy of Fine Arts Munich).
Once the illumination of Flavin’s installation ceases, the works assert themselves in the space as an audible, physical presence. The interplay between direct sound and multilayered reflections and resonances creates a scene of temporal experiences that heighten the visitors’ sensory perception of the space as well as their self-perception.
The interplay between the Kunstbau’s unique architecture, its inherent acoustics, and the one-of-a-kind speaker system provides the framework for eleven newly commissioned sound pieces by the participating artists from the "Sound and Experiment" program. Beyond addressing the context in which Flavin’s works are situated within the complex field of twentieth-century minimalism and material reduction, this inquiry serves as a point of departure for an exploration of pseudo-durational forms, iterative acoustic structures, microvariations, non-equality, pattern formation, and sounds on the edges of human perception—as well as a creative examination of spatial modes, excitation frequencies, and audible reflections as acoustic materials.
The works featured in this presentation are based on difference, repetition, and reduction, as well as process-based composition, with attention to how these factors shape listening and spatio-temporal perception. Rather than emphasizing dramatic development and dynamics, the projects will explore apparent stasis, where subtle change emerges through structural logic.
The exhibition at the Kunstbau presents newly produced multichannel sound pieces by Sofian Biazzi, focus baby, Daniel Gianfranceschi, Bruno Younes Haas, Jahy Hwang, Caroline Kretschmer, Bradley Leonard, Léa Manoussakis di-Bona, Maria Margolina, Camilla Metelka, and Vasilii Vikhliaev.
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