Booth A26, artgenève/musique 2022
Dirk Bell / Isabel Lewis (School Of Swans)
No Salad Records invites Sunna Margrét and Gina Proenza
Karin Sander
Sarah Schönfeld
Stefan Tcherepnin
Artistic director, Augustin Maurs
Co-curator, Catherine Othenin-Girard
This year, artgenève/musique launches a new space dedicated to sound and music. “The Music Chamber” seeks to create a specific artistic dynamic for elaborating and showing sonic works. This “chamber” recalls both the intimacy of the bed room and the disputes of parliamentary debates, but also the notion of chamber music, a musical genre based on a reduced usage of material and voices, that has always pushed the boundaries of its own existing structures. In this first MUSIC CHAMBER edition, the status of the presented works is often ambivalent, between sound installation, performance or silent object relating to sound. Visual elements are extended by sonic movements and vice versa, enabling the pieces to cohabit and to sometimes interact: the soft, persistent noises of a drawing hand delivered by large custom made speakers (Dirk Bell / Isabel Lewis); the smashing of plates and their transformation into sonic meanings within an “instant archeology” process (Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld); “lightning concerts” transcending visual and audible perception (Karin Sander); a scenography unifying both art and performance history proposed by Stéphane Kropf / No Salad Records (Gina Proenza and Sunna Margrét) and a piano in fake fur playing sporadic electronic chords (Stefan Tcherepnin).
Artgenève’s 10th anniversary evening at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva Friday, March 4th, from 8pm
For the 10th edition of the Salon, artgenève/musique invites the percussion Ensemble Eklekto with pieces by Félicia Atkinson and Ryoji Ikeda directed by Alexandre Babel as well as a concert presented by the label No Salad Records / Stéphane Kropf, with Sunna Margrét & Purple Monkey Dishwasher.
artgenève/music is a platform within artgenève which is dedicated to sound, performance and ephemeral works made by artists. Since 2012, more than 30 new works have been realised in various projects in and outside Geneva.
