FROM AFAR (wie aus der Ferne) 2024

group exhibition on the Angermünde municipal cemetery | a project of  Initiative temporäre Kunsträume e.V. | @hingabe_2024

Hand drawings of QR codes on stones and other materials are placed as traces on the cemetery site. With the help of smartphones, they lead visitors to various songs from my personal future funeral playlist that I have edited and staged.

sostenuto, molto calmo * ...the installation develops a parcours of pop-transcendent moments both in the cemetery and in virtual space. The emotional quality of sounds and music, which enact one's own farewell and attempt to maintain contact "from a distance", is accompanied and broken up by the noise of everyday and very present sounds.

* In 1966 (the year I was born), Györgi Ligeti published his composition Lux Aeterna for 16 voices. I try to combine his principle of tonal blurring through the acte-less and transposed singing in the individual voices with my "non-musical-but-plastic-techniques" with the song selection and thus create a distant echo of myself. The title From Afar quotes Ligeti's musical recital description, the work is a work-in-progress and grows over the course of the exhibition and my lifetime.

** with special thanks to Vera Brieske for the inspiration for the concept

 

Recordings:

FROM AFAR I - Video on Youtube: Via con me, Paolo Conte, Paris milonga, 1981| hummed by C. Brieske, fragments of the original and other recorded everyday sounds

FROM AFAR II - Video on Youtube: Heaven, Talking Heads, Fear Of Music, 1979 | sung by Stefan Kämmer in Monster Ronson's Ichiban Karaoke (Songlist Nr.1946-65)

FROM AFAR III - Video on Youtube: Pissing in the River, Patti Smith, Radio Ethopia, 1976 | Original with interference, vocals Holly+ and other sounds | Photography: Katja Hommel