Genko-An 64287 (Darmstadt 2012)
Museum Mathildenhöhe, 2012
daily between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m, Thursdays until 9 p.m. in the context of the exhibition "A house full of music" in the water reservoir of MATHILDENHÖHE DARMSTADT
In collaboration with Matthias Mohr and René Liebert
Genko-An 64287 – 1 “Hashirigaki/Lights” 3 Videoprojektionen / 3 video projections with Carlotta Engelkes (performer), Florence von Gerkan (costumes), Klaus Grünberg (lighting)
Genko-An 64287 – 2 “Walden/Voices” 6-Kanal Soundinstallation / 6-channel sound installation with Fragments of “Walden” based on Henry Thoreau (Heiner Goebbels, 1998) with Bob Rutman (steel cello, bow chimes, vocals), Ensemble Modern Orchestra conducted by Peter Eötvös, ethnographic and historical recordings of voices from Greece, Columbia, Ghana, Congo, Senegal, Tuva and the voices of, among others, John Cage, Heiner Müller, Marina Abramovic, Alvin Lucier, Komitas, Sainkho Namtchylak, and André Malraux (loop 60 min)
"to see something / to hear something" Gertrude Stein
"In the hall of the Buddhist temple GENKO-AN in Kyoto (Japan) there are two differently shaped windows with views of the same garden: a square window - the “window of confusion” - and a round window - the “window of enlightenment”. With “Genko-An 12353”, an installation in the Gropiusstadt, Berlin, for the exhibition “X-Wohnungen” in 2007, I reversed this principle. Set to two identical soundtracks, two identical ‘windows’ in a skyscraper faced two different directions and presented views of apartment blocks and the sky, respectively. “Genko-An 64287” is divided into a video-based and a sound-based installation in two identical water reservoirs. For one of them – to see something – I collected images, for the other – to hear something – I made a composition featuring sounds from the orchestra piece “Walden” and ‘peculiar’ voices of people who inspired and accompanied me in my work during the last years: voices of artists, friends and complete strangers." Heiner Goebbels
Texts
Grenzgänge zwischen Kunst und Musik: (Review, de)
Ruhrtriennale-Chef Heiner Goebbels arbeitet für eine Ausstellung in Darmstadt
18 May 2012, Werner Häußner, Revierpassagen
John Cage als Inspiration (Review, de)
Die Darmstädter Mathildenhöhe huldigt in der so ehrgeizigen wie brillanten Ausstellung „A House Full of Music“ der Verbindung von Kunst und Musik
14 May 2012, CHRISTIAN WILDHAGEN, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Past Dates
September 2012
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt (Germany)
August 2012
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt (Germany)
July 2012
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt (Germany)
June 2012
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt (Germany)
May 2012
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt (Germany)
Related Works
Genko-An 69006 (Lyon 2014)
Musée d'Art Contemporain, 2014
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