FÉLICIA ATKINSON | DAVID GRUBBS | SUSAN HOWE | GERHARD RÜHM | TONI SCHMALE | ZORKA WOLLNY
An
exhibition of images, words and music fabricated by, collaged by or channeled
by Félicia Atkinson, David Grubbs, Susan Howe, Gerhard Rühm, Toni Schmale and Zorka Wollny.
Sounds,
words and visuals. Is one person able to manoeuvre freely between all of them
and planes they are positioned on? Can we imagine a collage of all these worlds
being a physical space occupied by hybrids?
Only
the city of music mania - Vienna - could bring out a psychoanalyst with a
special ear for personal resonances. While studying the psychoanalytical
dimension of music Theodor Reik observed that: “Wherever reactions to musical
experiences are mentioned, words are functioning only as guideposts leading to
the threshold of the domain where melodies live.” Unlike his teacher and friend
Sigmund Freud Reik preferred to listen. The obsessive thoughts can turn into the
compulsion to fill all the silences with a constant flow of words or a haunting
melody. Melody is something more than a simple musical tune that one can hum.
Melody is rather a speculum that offers insight into an unmasked realm of
affects that one is allowed to glimpse because the subjects body surrendered to
the resonances.
Among the many sound works of Gerhard Rühm “Ophelia and the Words” occupies a special space. One voice only - the voice of the Hamlets fiancee - is speaking to the absent interlocutors. While the meaning is lost in this cut up monologue the speech melody takes over and suggests whole worlds beyond word formulation. The dialogue was cut up and restructured to close her inside of her own mind and to let us in through the loudspeakers unable to disrupt her with our own speech. She is somewhere else. Rühm rightly diagnosed, what American artist Susan Howe puzzled took notice of as well. French musician and artist Félicia Atkinson offers a response: “This shouldn't be a dialogue: a poem as an argument”.
Rühms radio piece is striking also because the voice is the only thing we can hold on to. This exhibition starts with the voice as guide and conductor of a travel composed of passages and scraps of images, sentences and literary and cinema characters. These sounds are being reinforced and amplified by the visual collages by the sound artists involved. The continuous exchange between the radio plays played-back in a shared space sets into motion a movement between images.
(Daniel Muzyczuk, 2018)
Thursday, 13.9.2018, 7 pm
Performance David Grubbs: Short reading from David Grubb’s new book ‚Now that the audience is assembled‘ (Duke University Press) and a set of solo electric guitar.
Saturday, 15.9.2018, 1 pm
from the series CONVERSATIONS:
Gerhard Rühm in conversation with Ann Cotten and
Ferdinand Schmatz
Saturday, 22.9.2018, 11 am - 1 pm
Curated by_ GUIDED TOUR 3
Meeting Point: GABRIELE SENN GALERIE, Schleifmühlgasse 1A,
1040 Vienna, with Elke Smodics (trafo.K)
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Christine Koenig Galerie, KRINZINGER PROJEKTE, Galerie Raum mit Licht, GABRIELE SENN GALERIE, Galerie Hubert Winter
Friday, 28.9.2018, 10 am - 1 pm
GALLERIES BREAKFAST in all participating galleries in collaboration with viennacontemporary
Friday, 5.10.2018, 6 - 8 pm
Curated by_ GUIDED TOUR 3
Meeting Point: GABRIELE SENN GALERIE, Schleifmühlgasse 1A,
1040 Vienna, with Elke Smodics (trafo.K)
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Christine Koenig Galerie, KRINZINGER PROJEKTE, Galerie Raum mit Licht, GABRIELE SENN GALERIE, Galerie Hubert Winter
Schleifmühlgasse 1A, 1040 Vienna
office@christinekoeniggalerie.at
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