RITORNELLO
SOUND ART EXHIBITION

4TH APRIL UNTIL 30 MAY, 2015
CURATED BY KATHRIN OBERRAUCH


OPENING 4TH APRIL 19:00
PERFORMANCE 4TH APRIL 21:00: Klaas Hübner - GERMANY

ARTISTS:

• Ahmed El Shaer - EGYPT
• Douglas Henderson - USA
• Michele Spanghero - ITALY
• Sarah Oberrauch - ITALY
• Song Ming Ang - SINGAPORE
• Yara Mekawi - EGYPT
• Yasmine El-Meligy - EGYPT
• Yiannis Pappas - GREECE

Workshops:
1- Silent Walk on 3 April, 2015 from 4 - 5 pm
Silent Walk is an improvisational exercise in which a group of participants takes an improvised walk through their immediate environment. Participants stay silent throughout the walk, listening to the sounds the encounter.

Filmprogram:
1- The starring guitarist Mdou Moctar 2015, 75 min on 7 April, 2015 at 7 pm
2- Searching for Sugar Man, 2012 by Malik Benjelloul, 85 minutes on 14 April, 2015 at 7 pm
3- Singapore Gaga 2005 by Tan Pin Pin, 55 minutes on 21 April, 2015 at 7 pm

About the exhibition:
The notion of Ritornello (Italian; ‘little return’) was first used to describe the reinviting passage in classical music: It is a melody which repeats itself and is played by all musicians together. The exhibition presents sound works by artists with different cultural background and unites the plurality on one stage. The heterogeneity of melodies meeting in the art space may merge harmoniously, but can also create a cacophony, providing the possibility for new and unheard motives to evolve.

This exhibition refer to Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the Ritornello, as developed in ‘Tausend Plateaus’. Their understanding of the Ritornello is one of a positive force which operates within a certain territory, interacting with already existing forces to create a new spatial arrangement. The Ritornello has a fundamentally local character and is always territorial. Using this metaphor each individual is pervaded by a multitude of Ritornellos, linking memory and experience of territory