Scores of Scores (Unfolding) Exhibition Walks Performances in Saarbrücken HBKsaar

Fourteen international artistic positions from the Binational Artistic PhD Program at the University of the Arts Bremen present their projects together at Galerie hbkSaar in Saarbrücken. Working across diverse media and formats, the artists explore Scores of Scores as an open, dynamic system that continually unfolds through use, repetition, and transformation.

The term Scores of Scores refers to an understanding of scores not as fixed or closed instructions, but as open, relational structures that emerge, shift, and transform through enactment. Relations here are not linear or singular, but branching, polyphonic, and unfinished. A score is not an origin to be executed correctly, but a starting point for relations, translations, and deviations.

Scores are understood as multilayered structures: as recordings, modes of activation, counting systems, temporal orders, or social choreographies. They are actualized through repetition, transmission, re-staging, and changes of context. Unfolding describes processes of variation, versioning, and transformation—a score never remains identical to itself, but exists as a series of possible actualizations. Some aspects remain latent, fragmentary, or only situationally perceptible.

The exhibition includes, among other works, power walks (along high-voltage power lines), instructions played via the large video screen of Galerie hbkSaar like a teleprompter in multiple languages (drawing on Fluxus action scores) and thus made visible in the urban space; installation works that require participation and activation; art machines that execute instructions; audio walks and sound stations (addressing bodily sensation and perception); and scores engaging with deep-sea extraction or with gold extraction and its use in electronic products.

An accompanying booklet brings together all the scores from the exhibition and makes them available to the audience for further use, re-activation, and translation. It is not conceived as a documentary conclusion, but as another medium of unfolding—an invitation to carry the scores into other contexts, times, and practices.

The exhibition at Galerie hbkSaar brings together international and highly diverse artistic approaches and makes trans-cultural connections visible. All participating artists have extensive exhibition experience and position their work at the intersection of artistic research, performativity, and social practice. The works enter into an active dialogue with the audience in Saarbrücken.

Artists exhibiting at hbkSaar:

• Marcela Antipan Olate
• Victor Artiga Rodriguez
• Henrik Nieratschker
• Franzi Bauer
• Carolin Melia Sabine Brendel
• Monika Gabriela Dorniak
• Yannic Heintzen
• Mar Lamberg
• Yuyen Lin Woywood
• Icaro Lopez de Mesa Moyana
• Dawoon Park
• Sophie Blet
• María Sabato
• Luiz Zanotello

In collaboration with: Prof. Dr. Andrea Sick & Prof. Dr. Mona Schieren, University of the Arts Bremen