Vortrag - Ari Benjamin Meyers
Vortrag - Ari Benjamin Meyers
Vortrag / 01.12.2022
Ari Benjamin Meyers (Komponist, Bildender Künstler und Dirigent, Berlin)
Rehearsing the Future: On the Kunsthalle for Music and Some Recent Works
Ich arbeite seit vielen Jahren im Kontext der zeitgenössischen Kunst, aber meine musikalische Ausbildung und mein Hintergrund prägen immer noch meine Herangehensweise an Kunst und Performance. Ich sehe mich als Komponist im weitesten Sinne. Aber was bedeutet das genau? Für mich ist Komposition eine Art Werkzeug um künstlerische, theoretische und gesellschaftspolitische Produktionsweisen zusammenzubringen. In diesem Vortrag beginne ich mit einer etwas erweiterten Präsentation der "Kunsthalle für Musik" (https://www.kunsthalleformusic.org), einer nomadischen Meta-Institution, die ich 2017 initiiert habe. Ich werde eine kurze Einführung in seine Geschichte geben, wie sie entstanden ist und vielleicht, was noch wichtiger ist, warum sie entstanden ist. Dies wird wiederum zu einer kurzen Diskussion über einige neuere Werke führen, darunter mein groß-angelegtes performatives öffentliches Kunstprojekt "Rehearsing Philadelphia" (https://www.rehearsingphiladelphia.com) aus diesem Jahr.
Ari Benjamin Meyers (b. 1972, USA) lives and works in Berlin. Meyers received his training as a composer and conductor at The Juilliard School, Yale University, and Peabody Institute. Trading the concert format for that of the exhibition, his widely exhibited works – such as Kunsthalle for Music (2018), Symphony 80 (with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) and Solo for Ayumi (both 2017) – explore structures and processes that redefine the performative, social, and ephemeral nature of music as well as the relationship between performer and audience. His diverse practice features performances for the stage and for exhibition spaces as well as three operas including a commission for the Semperoper Dresden, a ballet for the Paris Opera, and the experimental music-theater work Forecast (2021) for the Volksbühne Berlin. A number of works including the recent Rehearsing Philadelphia (various locations, April 2022) and Werksorchester (Osten Festival, July 2022) are focused on the public and civic sphere and have involved large scale communal rituals. Meyers has often worked collaboratively and has realized multiple joint projects with artists such as Tino Sehgal, Anri Sala, and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, as well as with bands such as The Residents, Chicks on Speed, and Einstürzende Neubauten. Further solo exhibitions and presentations include K Club as part of Unlimited Night at Art Basel (2022); Kunsthalle for Music, Act 1: 7 Stücke aus dem Repertoire von Ari Benjamin Meyers at Museum Abteilberg, Mon̈chengladbach (2022); Duet (with the Beethoven orchestra Bonn) at Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2022); The Long Parade at Beaufort Triennial (2021); Forecast (Installation Version) at Urbane Künste Ruhr (2021); Solo at Yellow Solo, Berlin (2020); K Club at Blitz Club, Munich (2020); Ari Benjamin Meyers: Kunsthalle for Music at MCA Santa Barbara (2019); Tacet at Kunstverein Kassel (2019) and In Concert at OGR Turin (2019). His works have been shown internationally in institutions and festivals including at Hamburger Kunsthalle (2022); Theater Treffen, Berlin (2022); MAAT, Lisbon (2021); Kunstsammlung Gera (2021); Neues Museum Nürnberg (2020); Schering Stiftung, Berlin (2020); VAC Foundation, Moskow (2019); Frac Franche-Comté (2019); Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Venice (2019); Liverpool Biennial (2018); Nowy Teatr, Warsaw (2018); Public Art Munich (2018); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2018); Sonic Somatic Festival, Florence (2018); Biennale de Lyon (2017); Spring Workshop, Hong Kong (2017); Lenbachhaus, Munich (2017); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2016). His artist book Tacet in Concert was published by Corraini Edizioni in 2019.
01.12.2022, 14 Uhr
Interpret*innenkammer Raum 3.12.090, Am Speicher XI 8, 28217 Bremen
Foto: Michael Chiu / Grafik: Christine Claussen & Ruben Lyon
