Maryanne Amacher
dal 12/7/2012 al 24/8/2012
Segnalato da
12/7/2012
Maryanne Amacher
Daad Galerie, Berlin
Intelligent Life. Exhibition, Workshop, Concerts, Performances. a comprehensive overview with rarely seen archive material, photography, scores, and sound recordings from the artist. The presentation will focus on two comprehensive groups of works: the series 'City Links' (1967-1988) and 'Intelligent Life', which Maryanne Amacher had been intensively developing since the 1980s, both experimenting with the possibilities of new technologies.
A project of the Berlin Künstlerprogramm, curated by Axel John Wieder in
collaboration with Bill Dietz, Micah Silver, and Robert The (Maryanne Amacher
Archive, Kingston, NY)
The exhibition presents the work of American composer and artist Maryanne Amacher
(1938-2009), who counts amongst the most influential personalities in contemporary
music. Amacher studied in the 1960s with Karlheinz Stockhausen and, in the 1970s and
1980s, she worked together with John Cage and Merce Cunningham and was a fellow at
the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. Early on, she
experimented with relationships between sound and space, and explored the
physiological conditions of hearing. Since her first stay in Berlin, after spending a year in
Berlin as a guest of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm / DAAD in 1986, Amacher developed
a strong connection to the city and realized numerous projects here which had a great
influence on the music scene in Berlin. Despite her significant production and her
substantial influence on a younger generation of artists, not least due to her long-term
educational activities, she is a kind of "artists’ artist" and is in the European context still
known by a mostly specialized public.
The exhibition "Intelligent Life" shows, for the first time, a comprehensive overview with
rarely seen archive material, photography, scores, and sound recordings from the artist.
The presentation will focus on two comprehensive groups of works: the series "City
Links" (1967-1988) and "Intelligent Life," which Maryanne Amacher had been
intensively developing since the 1980s, both experimenting with the possibilities of new
technologies. The exhibition follows the interdisciplinary and research-based practice of
the artist and explores Maryanne Amacher's influence on both the practice of
contemporary art and music.
As a part of the exhibition, a three week-long research workshop with musicians and
artists will take place in which various possibilities for a performance practice of
Maryanne Amacher's work will be explored. In Amacher's treatment "Intelligent Life",
she imagines a future laboratory dedicated to radical sonic experimentation entitled
"Supreme Connections, Inc." Responding to this imagined institution, the workshop will
explore Amacher's working materials and methods toward clarifying a future trajectory
for presenting her works. On two Saturdays, "results" from this Amacher study center
will be publicly presented along with talks, discussions and concerts.
Further events include performances, concerts and the presentation of a film:
Workshop: “Supreme Connections Laboratory”
(with: Bill Dietz, Daniel Fishkin, Micah Silver, Sergei Tcherepnin, Stefan Tcherepnin,
Robert The, Daniel Teige and guests)
16.-29.7. 2012
Kleiner Sendesaal, Funkhaus Nalepastraße
21.7. lectures and performances
28.7. lectures and performances
19.7. Concert Ensemble Zwischentöne, „Glia“ (2006), Maryanne Amacher, Seven
Instruments and Electronics, Aktionsraum, Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für
Gegenwartskunst, 7pm
18.8. Concert „Petra“ (1991), Maryanne Amacher, Variations for two pianos,
Aktionsraum, Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 7pm
22.8. Double projection of "Torse" (55 min., Regie: Charles Atlas, Choreographie:
Merce Cunningham, Musik: Maryanne Amacher). Kino Arsenal, 7.30pm
For further information please visit our website: www.daadgalerie.de
In collaboration with and supported by: Kulturabteilung der Botschaft der Vereinigten
Staaten in Berlin; Elektronisches Studio der Technischen Universität Berlin, Fachgebiet
Audiokommunikation; Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V.; Nationalgalerie im Hamburger
Bahnho
Image: Maryanne Amacher: Installation at New England Fish Exchange, Pier
6 Boston Harbor: 15kc Bell program channel, power supply and pre-
amp for microphone under paper covers, 1973-1978. Copyright,
courtesy: Maryanne Amacher Archive, Kingston, NY
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