Practice Room
Mixed media (installation view) Galerie Wedding Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
Practice Room is a spatial installation that is open to be used by visitors, guests/bands and the »flatmates«. They can convene and try out and play (with) altered instruments. Lucinda Dayhew invites us to collective rehearsals. A practice room is usually secluded, it is not a public space. Songs and melodies are not final, the musicians have no audience yet. Dayhew allows us to experience the processes of collective music making, the harmonies and disharmonies from inside the rehearsal space – accessible to the »flatmates«, visitors and people passing by. Over the course of the exhibition she invites different musicians to rehearse in her Practice Room. These rehearsals take place at different times during the day and night, they are visible and audible from the outside, but they are not public concerts. At the opening Dayhew’s Band Luci Lippard will, however, rehearse six versions of Still Life II in public.
Text: Kathrin Pohlmann & Julia Zieger - curators of Vacancies! as part of Post Otherness Wedding - a series of exhibitions curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen & Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung at Galerie Wedding
Martyna Poznańska
Several Berlin based musicians will be rehearsing in the Practice Room installation. Their practices will remain unannounced, taking place at varying times of day and night throughout the exhibition period.
Bands and musicians include:
Carlos Fontaneda
(Aguilar de Campoó/Friedrichshain)
und
Juan Hurlé
(Santander/Neukölln)
Nathan Gray
(Melbourne/Marzahn)
Jasmine Guffond
(Sydney/Neukölln)
Luci Lippard
Lucinda Dayhew (Sydney/Kreuzberg)
und
Hanne Lippard – (Trondheim/Kreuzberg)
Martyna Poznańska
(Białystok/Wedding)
Yuky Ryang
(Düsseldorf/Mitte)
Sftstps
Nick Houde (Colorado/Neukölln)
Soft Grid
Jana Sotzko (Berlin/Neukölln)
Theresa Stroetges (Brüggen/Kreuzberg)
Sam Slater (Cotswolds/Neukölln)
Elke Wardlaw (Baltimore/Neukölln)
Elke Wardlaw