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20/2/2015

Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag

Wurttembergischer Kunstverein WKV, Stuttgart

Curators: Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler

The Berlin-based artist, composer, and theorist Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag associates the fine arts, new music, and media aesthetics in his artwork, which is mainly of installative nature. His solo exhibition 'Rauschen' (Noise) explores the relations between technology, noise, and rapture. (In German language exists a proximity between the terms noise, Rauschen, and rapture, Rausch.)

The show embraces three work cycles in three spatial formations: a quadraphonic Noise Space, a passage in which an abundance of objects, documents, and artifacts from and related to the 'apparatus operandi' cycle are seen and heard, and a sound-film room.

Positioned at the center of the exhibition space-as a kind of White Cube within a White Cube-is the Noise Space. It is fashioned from four special horns in large format, so-called diffraction horns, constructed by Sonntag and his team especially for this exhibition. In the Noise Space, the sounds of sea and forest are mixed with inner-body sounds, Wagner's 'In the Greenhouse', and Sonntag's endlessly crescendoing noise, first developed in 1991, to arrive at a total immersion in sound, or so-called white noise.

The point of departure for the media-archaeological research project 'apparatus operandi' is an anatomy of the modular synthesizer by Friedrich Kittler. The apparatus was single-handedly assembled and soldered by the literature and media theorist, who passed away in 2011, between the years 1978 and 1988. In a scenario that invoked Rembrandt's famous painting 'The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp', Sonntag and other leading experts conducted an anatomical study on a synthesizer model in the Medientheater at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. The exhibition will provide the framework for a continuation of this technophilological research work on Kittler's synthesizer, which is on loan from the German Literature Archive (DLA) in Marbach.

The Sound-Film Room contains sound film horn loudspeakers from the nineteen-thirties newly developed by Sonntag and his team. Further, videos from Sonntag's 'almost cinema' cycle are presented, alternating with the main noise installation.

Image: Braun Lectron model kit, 1966

Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Schlossplatz 2 70173 Stuttgart
Tue - Sun: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Wed: 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Entrance fees
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