On the occasion of the 58thBiennale de Venezia, artgenève/musique is pleased to present ENCORES - music on recurrence, redundancy and surplus, its third concert with contemporary artists curated by Augustin Maurs. With performances by: Saâdane Afif, Hsia-Fei Chang, Pierre Huyghe, Yutaka Makino, Jonathan Monk, Annika Larsson / Satch Hoyt, and Anri Sala.
After editions at the Berlin Philharmonie (2013) and the Herkulessaal in Munich (2017), this concert will take place in the Goldoni Theater, located in the historical center of Venice. The evening draws on the notion of “encore”; a repeated or additional performance called by the audience at the end of a concert. Often reflecting the momentary state of mind of musicians, encores can result in uniquely intimate musical renditions, or into moments of excessive extravaganza or pretense – sometimes even exceeding the given frame of the entire event. Increasingly associated with less serious performances, encores have sometimes been officially banned from certain theaters, for potentially leading to public disorder.
For the invited artists, the notion of encore serves as a social-ritualistic pattern and as an artistic scheme to explore different kinds of reiterations, mutations or changes. Music is perceived as convertible energy, often referring to already existing works or to somewhat noisy political events: Pierre Huyghe’s off-key response to John Cage’s iconic silent piece “4:33”; Hsia-Fei Chang’s Karaoke performance based on the real story of a political assassination attempt; Anri Sala’s set of “twin national anthems” and duplicating political songs; Saâdane Afif’s transposition of the work of German minimalist artist Peter Roehr in an operatic PowerPoint presentation; Yutaka Makino’s investigation (and voluntary mess-up) of our near future’s acoustic perception; Jonathan Monk’s scrupulous rendition of “his Mother cleaning his father’s piano”; or Annika Larsson and Satch Hoyt sonic visions of a utopian planet through Sun Ra’s incantation “It's After the End of the World”.
Special guests include:
Felix Gebhard (electric guitar and synthesizer), Katharina Heiligtag (voice), Ni Fan (percussion), Annerose Hummel (voice), Roberto Durante (piano), and Angelo Liziero (double bass).
The evening is preceded by a conversation with Anselm Franke, Lou Cantor a.o. on Intersubjectivity Vol.II published by Sternberg Press.
