Ei Arakawa / Christian Naujoks
Ei Arakawa with Christian Naujoks
23. 7. 18, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Performance People
Ei Arakawa works in performance, sculpture and installation, often elaborating hybrid and multimedia works which are situated within or spun off from live, choreographed events. His complex performance works are typically collaborative and subvert performative conventions by breaking the boundaries between audience and performer, resulting in spontaneous live actions. Sometimes incorporating other artists’ works as source material, his projects rethink traditional notions of authorship, subjectivity, temporal and geographical context, while also interrogating the politics of collaboration.
Arakawa will use a few examples of his recent work to discuss how to approach, interpret and use other people’s artwork within his own conceptual framework. How does music relate to art? What is the difference between sound and music? Where and to whom does an artwork want to speak and sing? What is the future of performance art?
Information
- Venue
- Galerie 5020
- Date
- 23. 7. 18, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Ei Arakawa
Ei Arakawa, born in Fukushima ( JP) in 1977, lives and works in New York, NY (US). His art is always performative, and includes paintings, everyday objects, and people as his actors, as it were, with each accorded an equal footing. Music and lyrics play an important role in his installations and performances, as he draws on the artistic strategies of Fluxus, Conceptualism, and Japanese art collectives such as Gutai and Experimental Workshop. His performances are created through collaborations with various people including contemporary artists, composers and art historians.
Website
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2018 Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (DE). 2017 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo. 2016 Galerie Meyer Kainer (with Nikolas Gambaroff), Vienna. Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY.
Group exhibitions
2019 Honolulu Biennial, Honolulu, HI (US). 2018 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (UK). 2017 Skulptur Projekte Münster, Münster (DE). 2016 Tbilisi16., Tbilisi, (GE). We Call It Ludwig, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (DE). 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art, Berlin. 2015 Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich (DE).
Performances
2017 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. 2016 Hammer Museum (with Silke Otto-Knapp), Los Angeles, CA (US). Serpentine Gallery (with DAS INSTITUT), London. 2015 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (US). Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (CA).
Christian Naujoks
Hamburg-based composer Christian Naujoks (b 1980 in Lübeck (DE)) is known for the striking minimalism of his rhythmic compositions, which combine influences of classical song-writing, folk music, club sounds and New Music. With the Hamburg electro label Dial, where with Peter M. Kersten (Lawrence) and Richard von der Schulenburg (RVDS) he also forms the group Sky Walking, he has released three solo albums: his untitled début and the follow-up True Life/In Flames (2012) were characterised by Naujoks’ performance on piano and marimba; his singing and his style of playing became distinctive features of their own emphatic, warm sound, located in pop and ambient.
Exhibitions
Concerts
2018 Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg (DE). 2017 Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL). Meakusma Festival, Eupen (BE). N.B.K., Berlin. Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Publications
LPs and Eps
2016 Wave, LP. Your Contribution, EP. 2014 Sky Walking, LP.