press release cia rinne

Grimmuseum presents
Sounds for Soloists
Supported by
Cia Rinne
Solo exhibition with Cia Rinne and per formance tour
cur ated by Solvej Helweg O vesen
23.06.—22.07. 2012
o p e n i n g: 2 3 . 0 6 . 2 012 a t 7p m
per formance Cia Rinne 8 pm
Wed.-Sun. 14-19 h.
Fichtestrasse 2, 10967 Berlin
w w w.grimmuseum.com
[email protected]
sounds for soloists is the first solo ex-
cal and linguistic complexities to their very
hibition by Finlandswedish-born poet and
essence or their sonar qualities: ”i am what
Performance tour / Event program
artist Cia Rinne (1973) taking place at the
i am what i ami a mia mi ami a miami amen”,
A series of performances by different
Grimmuseum as part of a tour in Northern
“1/one/ohne/oh no/ ono/on/o/(oh no)”, “an-
soloists accompany sounds for soloists on
Europe. sounds for soloists is a sonar
swer this question carefully: o yes o no”.
tour. Soloists that invent their own sounds on
exhibition that presents how one single per-
Her work reflects on different ways of un-
the limit of language and music.
son with a multilingual voice uses it as an
derstanding and using language, thought,
At Grimmuseum, the program of the Lyrical
instrument to perform complex, yet minimal
and sound. Her works, both readings, writ-
Summer performances is as follows:
compositions generated at the leap of global
ings and visuals, are liberated from the con-
multilingualism. The exhibition presents
straints of certain artistic genres, they oper-
◆ 23 June 8pm Cia Rinne (Free)
two cross-lingual sound installations by Cia
ate freely on the borders of disciplines such
◆ 5 July 8pm Anders Lauge Meldgaard
Rinne, sounds for soloists (realized in col-
as poetry reading, writing, performance and
+ Cia Rinne (5 Euros)
laboration with Sebastian Eskildsen) and
collage-making. sounds for soloists is
◆ 19 July 8pm Adachi Tomomi
sans y/eux , in mostly English, German, and
the first comprehensive show of Cia Rinne’s
+ Cia Rinne (5 Euros)
French, but also Swedish, Italian and Span-
cross-lingual text and sound art in Berlin.
ish. Furthermore two of her text-based
installations indices and h/ombres as well as
Guided Tours
the text installations notes for soloists and
◆ 24 June 3 pm
Cia Rinne (3 Euros)
serious cerises are on display. sounds for
◆ 1 July 3 pm
Solvej Helweg Ovesen
soloists will be accompanied by a series of
(3 Euros)
performances by Tomomi Adachi (JP), An-
◆ 8 July 3 pm
Kordula Fritze-Srbic
ders Lauge Meldgaard/Frisk Frugt (DK), and
(3 Euros)
Cia Rinne. The exhibition and performance
◆ 22 July 3 pm
Kordula Fritze-Srbic
program will go on tour to the Nordic exhibi-
(3 Euros)
tion spaces Signal, Malmö, and The Living
Art Museum, Reykavik, in 2012-2013 thanks
to support from the Nordic Cultural Founda-
Support
tion and Svenska Kulturfonden.
The exhibition is created with the support
of the Nordic Cultural Foundation and the
Cia Rinne, herself of a multilingual back-
Foundation for Swedish Culture in Finland.
ground, writes highly playful conceptual
pieces evocative of Fluxus and Dada poetry.
In written form, the pieces appear as draw-
Press contact Grimmuseum:
ings and composition text in line with the
Enrico Centonze
traditions of concrete and visual poetry. With
centonze@grimmuseum
a strict material and conceptual discipline,
www.grimmuseum.com
Rinne reduces wide terrains of philosophi-
+49 (0) 15112412524.
Grimmuseum presents
Sounds for Soloists
Supported by
Cia Rinne
Solo exhibition with Cia Rinne and per formance tour
cur ated by Solvej Helweg O vesen
23.06.—22.07. 2012
o p e n i n g: 2 3 . 0 6 . 2 012 a t 7p m
per formance Cia Rinne 8 pm
Wed.-Sun. 14-19 h.
Fichtestrasse 2, 10967 Berlin
w w w.grimmuseum.com
[email protected]
Performers
Frisk Frugt is part of the Berlin/Copenhagen-
archives zaroum (2008), notes for soloists
based experimental music collective
(OEI Editör, Stockholm 2009), and
yoyooyoy. He has been involved with yoyooyoy
the sound work sounds for soloists (2011).
Tomomi Adachi (Tokyo) for over a decade and done numerous music
Adachi Tomomi (family name Adachi,
and art projects. Meldgaard alias Frisk Frugt
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/
Kanazawa, Japan, 1972), is a famed
also released two albums; Guldtrompeten
Rinne.php
performer, composer, sound poet,
(2006), and Dansktoppen møder Burkina
http://www.afsnitp.dk/galleri/
installation artist, occasional theater
Faso i det himmelblå rum hvor solen bor,
archiveszaroum/
director, and current DAAD artist in
suite (2010). Frisk Frugt operates in his own
residence 2012. For the sounds for soloists
quirky musical universe, in which genres
tour, Adachi and Cia Rinne are preparing
of traditional Danish folk song writing and
a performance on Japanese Dada . Adachi
poetry in an unpretentious way are spiced
studied philosophy and aesthetics at Waseda
up with elements from experimental rock,
University in Tokyo. He has worked with
improvisation, drone, noise, electronica, lo-fi,
Solvej Helweg Ovesen
sound installations, played improvised music
free jazz and African high-life guitar. When
Solvej Helweg Ovesen (*1974) is born in
with voice, live electronics and self-made
Frisk Frugt performs, he invites everyone
Hillerød, Denmark, educated at De Appel,
instruments, and composed works for his
into his optimist dinghy for a refreshing
Curatorial Training Programme, Amsterdam,
own punk-style choir “Adachi Tomomi Royal
neopsychedelic cruise out on music’s diverse
and MA in Cultural Studies (Copenhagen
Chorus”. Adachi is the only performer of
waves of vast opportunities.
University). She lives and works in Berlin and
sound poetry in Japan, where he was the first
www.yoyooyoy.dk/friskfrugt.htm
Copenhagen. She recently curated “Never
curator
to perform Kurt Schwitter’s Ursonate. Adachi
odd or even – a text spaced exhibition”,
has performed vocal, live-electronics or
Grimmuseum, Berlin and Museum of
performance works by John Cage, Cornelius
Cia Rinne
Contemporary Art in Denmark, 2011-2012, as
Cardew, Christian Wolff, Tom Johnson, Dieter
Cia Rinne (*1973) born in Gothenburg,
well as “The Eye is a Lonely Hunter – Images
Schnebel, TAKAHASHI Yuji, YUASA Joji and
Sweden, MA in philosophy (Frankfurt,
of Human Kind”, 4TH Fotofestival Mannheim
Fluxus works, including the world premiere
Athens, and Helsinki), lives and works in
Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, 2011. She is the
of Cage’s Variations VII, Europera 5, and
Berlin. She has performed widely
author of the book on performativity in art
Waterwalk.
Europe and is an acclaimed reader in
and life, “The World as Stage” (nbk), Walther
www.adachitomomi.com
Comparative Literature circles
König, 2010.
internationally. Recently she took part in
www.solvejovesen.com
exhibitions including the Terra
Frisk Frugt (Fresh Fruit)
infirma show at the ISCP New York 2010, the
Anders Lauge Meldgaard (Aalborg, DK) is
Turku Biennial 2011, and Kallio
the real name of the man behind Frisk Frugt
Kunsthalle in Helsinki 2011. Rinne’s
(Danish for Fresh Fruit). As part of the sounds
publications include zaroum (2001),
for soloists tour, he plays on his spectacular
The Roma Journeys (with Joakim Eskildsen,
homemade organ built from toy plastic flutes.
Steidl 2007), the online-work
E x hibiti o n o pening
S o l o ist P erf o rmances
Ly rical S u mmer
5.7. at 8 pm Anders Lauge Meldgaard and Cia Rinne (3 E)
23.6. at 8 pm Cia Rinne
23.6.2012 at 7 pm
c u r a te d b y S o lv e j H e lw e g O v e s e n
19.7. at 8 pm Tomomi Adachi and Cia Rinne (3 E)
design: www. andreanicolo.com
o pening perf o rmance
image: Dalí's Moustache © Cia Rinne 2012
G u ided T o u rs ( 3 E)
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24.6. at 3 pm (with the ar tist)
www.grimmuseum.com
1.7. at 3 pm
Fichtestrasse 2, 10967 Berlin
8.7. at 3 pm
22.7. at 3 pm
Wednesday-Sunday 14-19h
Cia Rinne at 8 pm
Cia Rinne
Sounds for Solois ts
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S ounds for S oloists
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