Radiophonic Spaces

24 October 2018 – 27 January 2019

 

The realm of art and the realm of radio are not so estranged from each other as one might initially think. Alongside writers, composers, theatre producers and filmmakers, artists also utilize the possibilities of this ephemeral medium. 200 selected treasures of international radio art can be experienced through an artistically designed trail. Among others with Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, John Cage, Friederike Mayröcker to Michaela Mélian, Brandon LaBelle, Ahmet Ögüt or Natascha Sadr Haghighian. A collaboration between Bauhaus University, Weimar, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and University of Basel.

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Gauri Gill. Traces

(Danse Macabre No. II)
13 June – 1 November 2018

Since 1999, Indian photographer Gauri Gill has spent extensive periods among marginalized rural communities in the desert of Western Rajasthan. ‘Traces’ is one of the photographic series drawn from her archive of images, ‘Notes from the Desert’. The portrayed burial sites are composed of stones, clay fragments, hand inscribed gravestones or personal items. A place is marked, memory is cultivated, with the utmost humbleness. In the awareness that every process of becoming will also mean decay, her images enter into dialogue with the ‘dance of death’.
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Too early to Panic
Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger

6 June – 23 September 2018

Using invasive plants, rampant fingernails, hairy plastic, collected tears, fat eggs and growing synthetic fertilizer crystals, Swiss artists Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger set up a three-part, labyrinthine cabinet of curiosities between nature and artificiality at Museum Tinguely. Visitors are invited to explore more than 25 years of their artistic universe, to partake of their evolving, proliferating and chaotic poetic transformations and to get active themselves.
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RE-SET: Appropriation and Transformation in
Music and Art since 1900

28 February – 13 May 2018

With scores, recordings, documentary films and photos (by Bartók, Stravinsky, and Varèse to Berio, Kagel and Rihm) the Paul Sacher Foundation highlights the importance of references to earlier compositions and their creative appropriation and adaption in twenthieth-century music. Museum Tinguely complements this interdisciplinary project with the presentation of works by contemporary artists (such as Saâdane Afif, Pierre Bismuth and Bethan Huws) reflecting Marcel Duchamp’s iconic idea of the readymade. A collaboration with the Paul Sacher Foundation.
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Radiophonic Cultures
Sonic Environments and Archives in Hybrid Media Systems

7 – 9 May 2018
International Conference
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Sofia Hultén. Here's the Answer, What's the Question?

24 January – 1st May 2018

The sculptures, installations and videos of Berlin-based artist Sofia Hultén (born 1972 in Stockholm) start with unremarkable everyday objects or materials from the world of DIY stores and workshops. Through a series of manipulations that sometimes verge on the absurd, she examines these objects that are marked by their previous lives or processes them into new arrangements. In many cases, she sticks to minimal interventions that focus on and shake up the various phases in an object’s biography. An exhibition in cooperation with Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
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