Exhibitions

Juan Bermudez in Kassel – 15. – 29. Juni 2024 • Alles in Ordnung

photo: © Juan Bermudez

Alles in Ordnung / 2024


Interactive Installation
145 cm x 77 cm 
Recycled aluminum shavings, aluminum frame, microphone, computer, and a hidden speaker.

This work was commissioned for the Charivari exhibition. The exhibition focuses on Charivari, Katzenmusik, Cacerolazo, and similar terms that refer to public rituals of noise-making with pots and pans, historically used for social disapproval, which have evolved into global, non-violent forms of political protest.

Nowadays one of the most common materials found in pots and pans is aluminum.  Alles in Ordnung  is an interactive artwork that deconstruct this material to question the political weight that individuals have within a space. Reflecting on the agency and socio-political impact of individuals, the piece  resemble a welcome doormat. Each time a visitor steps on, the altered sound of the aluminum shavings, inspired by the sonic characteristics of a cacerolazo, echoes through the gallery. However, this sonic reaction is randomly delayed, creating tension and confusion as visitors anticipate when their actions will trigger a reaction in the space. 

As in pots and pans protests, destruction and sacrifice are essential components in the process of modifying the current state of affairs. Guests gradually erase the message painted on top of the aluminum, transforming passive observation into active participation.

ATEM|RAUM • Ausstellung und Konzert in Mainz 25.06.2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

„ATEMRAUM. Eine künstlerische Erforschung von Atem, Medialität und Wahrnehmung“

AUSSTELLUNGSERÖFFNUNG:
Dienstag, 25. Juni 2024, um 18:00 Uhr in der Schule des Sehens, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18,
und
19:30 Uhr Performance im Roten Saal der Hochschule für Musik Mainz, Jakob-Welder-Weg 28,
auf dem Campus der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

Eröffnung mit Performance-Programm am 25. Juni 2024 auf dem Gutenberg-Campus /

Ausstellung 26. Juni bis 3. Juli in der Schule des Sehens

ÖFFNUNGSZEITEN (26.06.-03.07.2024):

Wann: jeweils wochentags, 11 bis 19 Uhr

Wo: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz – Schule des Sehens, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18,
55128 Mainz

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„ATEMRAUM“ – Ausstellungs- und Lehrprojekt zum Verhältnis von Atem, Medialität und Wahrnehmung in den Künsten und kuratorischer Vermittlung

Im Sommersemester 2024 hat sich ein kuratorisches Lehr- und Ausstellungsprojekt an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) mit dem Thema „Atem / Raum“ beschäftigt. Dabei stand der Begriff des Atemraums im Mittelpunkt, geprägt vom Schweizer Kurator Harald Szeemann als Metapher für seine Ausstellungspraxis in den 1970er- und 1980er-Jahren: Ein Kunstwerk hat Szeemann zufolge dann genügend Atemraum, wenn die Kuratorin bzw. der Kurator in einer Ausstellung das werkspezifisch angemessene Verhältnis zum Raum, zu anderen Exponaten und zu den Besucherinnen und Besuchern findet. Entsprechend ging es im interdisziplinären Projektseminar an der JGU um die Frage, wie Atem als ökologische Kategorie in den verschiedenen Künsten thematisiert und wie „Atemräume“ als Zwischenräume und Orte ästhetischer Aushandlungsprozesse in einer Ausstellung oder performativen Präsentation geschaffen werden können. Als innovatives Lehrprojekt vom Gutenberg Lehrkolleg (GLK) gefördert, haben Studierende der Kunstgeschichte, der Bildenden Kunst, der Musik und der Musikwissenschaft in den vergangenen Wochen gemeinsam mit Künstler*innen an verschiedenen Projekten und deren Präsentation gearbeitet, die vom 26. Juni bis 3. Juli 2024 in der Schule des Sehens auf dem Gutenberg-Campus zu sehen sind.

Ein JGU-Ausstellungs- und Lehrprojekt mit Studierenden der Hochschule für Musik Mainz, des Instituts für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft und der Kunsthochschule Mainz:

Okan Alcay, Zena Alzir, Claudia Artner, Jil Bertels, Johannes Buchholz, Tomás Cabado, Anna Lisa Claassen, Nicolás Cristancho Quintero, Benjamin Dobó, Laura Drusenheimer, Eugenia Fontana, Sophia Glaszner, David Göhrig, Robin Krause, Andreas Kurt, Taegyu Lim, Kyungseo Min, Meike Möllinger, Johannes Preyß, Sofia Rinaldi, Kim Schneider, Daiaana Sergucheva, Nina Simoes, Vanesse Spekker, Elpida Tsaousidis, Lisa Zikeli.

Konzept: Elke Anna Werner, Irene Schütze, Peter Kiefer, Stefan Fricke und Birger Petersen

Grafikdesign: Markus Walenz

 

Cistifellea Collective: Codes of Absence in Berlin mit Nicolas Cristancho

Foto: Jonathan P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concertperformance Do. 13.06.24 in VIERTE WELT, Berlin

Codes of Absence takes us with musician Nico Yurgaki* to trace, throughout musical improvisations, his experiences of loneliness during the migration from Colombia into the EU, and how it affected his relationship with his mother Bertha Quintero. Quintero is a conga player and one of the founders of the first female salsa orchestra in Colombia, Caña Brava.

In a live video call, Yurgaki will be on stage at the Vierte Welt and Quintero in Bogotà. Together they will take us on a journey along the concept of the five claves (rhythmic codes) of Colombian-Pacific and Caribbean music. These five codes are rhythmic patterns that appear in many Colombian musical pieces. As the result of the centuries-long interweaving of different musical cultures in the Latin- Afro-American, and Caribbean regions, they will use them to guide us through intimate conversations discussing themes such as motherhood, rebellion against the patriarchy, masculinity, love – and the feeling of the absence of the loved ones in a seemingly globally connected world. Hence it turns these patterns into a symbol for the transition of identity- and its transgression.

*Nico Yurgaki is the stage name of Nicolas Cristancho, masterstudent sound art - composition in Mainz.

Juan Bermudez in Kassel – 15. – 29. Juni 2024

Exhibition:

Charivari: Tan Bone / Juan Bermudez / Zaki Al-Maboren

Galerie des Konzept e.V.
Tischbeinstraße 2
34121 Kassel

Opening on 15 June at 8 pm
Duration 15-29 June, 2024

Opening hours: Saturday and Sunday 12:00-18:00, as well as by appointment

With works by Juan David Bermúdez, Tan Bone and Zaki Al-Maboren.

Charivari, cat music, cacerolazo, pots-and-pans protest, rough music, shalwari banging... all these terms describe similar rituals in which noise is made in public as a gesture of protest and disapproval. Until the 19th century, these rituals were still primarily linked to moral concepts, but became increasingly politicised. Since the 20th century, acoustic protest has been used as an explicitly political form of expression all over the world, including in France, Canada, Sudan, Morocco, Myanmar, Nigeria, Chile, Colombia and Iceland. The banging and banging of pots and pans thus possesses the qualities of a decentralised, non-violent language of protest that is almost universally understandable. The group exhibition Charivari presents three individual artistic explorations of the theme. The exploration takes place via video, sound and objects. Colombian-born artist Juan David Bermúdez, for example, uses interactive sound installations to realise his experiences of the cacerolazo in his home country.
In contrast, there are films by Zaki Al-Maboren that document the acoustic protest in Sudan from 2019, which appear in a completely new light in light of current developments there. It is a similar story with Tan Bones, whose work "Sound Pot" combines objects from the protest movement in Myanmar in 2021 with an interactive smartphone app.
However, Charivari does not simply present political activism, but also questions the extent to which acoustic protest is the starting point for an aesthetic experience. The works do not directly accuse anyone, but invite viewers to question their own role and the boundary between creative protest and violence. The tumult of the Charivari thus reveals both hope and despair.
Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Kassel, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture, and the Gerhard Fieseler Foundation.

Juan Bermudez at next_generation X at ZKM Karlsruhe, 5 – 7 June 2024

Juan Bermudez Waiting Room #2, (2023), Dot Matrix Printers, Microcontrollers, Waiting Bench, Coffee Tables

Please wait to be... Waiting room No. 2 / 2023 Multimedia Installation Thermal printers, dot matrix printer, queue stands, 600 x400 cm stage and waiting room

photo: Juan Bermudez • Installation version 2023 in Mainz

The Department of Sound Art - Composition is very pleased that the work of Juan Bermudez (Master's student Sound Art - Composition) has been selected for the exhibition in the ZKM Karlsruhe at the festival next_generation .

Concerts, installations, lectures

Wed, June 05, 2024 – Sat, June 08, 2024, Festival

(The work of Bermudez has to be dismantled on Friday for organisational reasons of the festival)

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Yannick Hofmann

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As Europe's largest meet-up of university studios for electronic music, »next_generation« offers up-and-coming composers a platform to present their new musical developments. This year, the festival initiated and conceived by Ludger Brümmer is celebrating its 10th edition.

Over four days, »next_generation« offers an exciting and dense program with the latest positions from the fields of »fixed media«, »spatial music« and »live electronics«. The festival thus guarantees a representative overview of the current creative work of the next generation of composers in the context of technology and art.

This year, students from 27 electronic university studios from Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Switzerland are taking part. All participants will have the opportunity to present their work in concerts and installations at various locations in the ZKM or to exchange ideas about their own areas of interest in lectures and discussions. In addition, professors and lecturers will report on current developments in the individual studios and departments.

ZKM next_generation_X

Webpage Juan Bermudez

Juan David Bermúdez (Meisterschüler)

Wingel Mendoza • Walpodenakademie Mainz

Schöne Welt du gingst in Fransen – NOT THE END

Vernissage Samstag 27. April 2024 19 Uhr

Finissage 30. Mai 18-22 Uhr zur P ART Mainzer Galerienrundgang

Weitere Öffnungszeiten: montags 17-20Uhr, samstags 16-18 Uhr

Gruppenausstellung mit Collagen, Fotos, Objekten, Video, Impromusik und Sound Art von Brandstifter, Dino, Sigrid Fahrer, Stefan Folz, Matthias Harnisch, krd hundefaenger, Stéphane Jeanneau, Michael Klotzki, Sandra Kruse, Wingel Mendoza, Jürgen Rinck, Tanja Roolfs, Harnolft Rosenhajn, Anke Kristina Schäfer, Bernd Schneider, Paul Srqqlka, Lars Wehr.

Die Gruppenausstellung mit sechzehn Künstlerinnen und Künstlern des Mainzer Kunstvereins Walpodenstraße 21 e.V. und Gästen in der Walpodenakademie zeigt eine Auswahl der Arbeiten die gemeinsam bei den beiden prozesshaften Aktionen und danach entstanden sind. Die beteiligten Künstlerinnen und Künstler leb(t)en in Mainz, Paris, Sigmaringen, St. Ingbert, Wiesbaden und Zweibrücken. Der dystopisch-optimistische Titel, aus der Summe zweier kollaborativer Feldforschungsprojekte, spiegelt unsere widerspüchlichen Perspektiven auf den Zustand unseres Planeten wider.

Galerie der WALPODENAKADEMIE Mainz
Neubrunnenstraße 08
55116 Mainz

Eine Veranstaltung des Mainzer Kunstvereins Walpodenstraße 21 e.V. zu 25 Jahre Mainzer Kunstverein Walpodenstraße 21 e.V. in der Walpodenakademie Mainz. In Kooperation mit der Veranstaltungsreihe Noisestadt der Kulturbäckerei Initiative für ein Soziokulturelles Zentrum in der Mainzer Neustadt e.V. und mir Unterstützung der Landeshauptstadt Mainz.

Wingel Mendoza – Pāvilosta-Artist-in-Residency, Latvia

Pāvilosta-Artist-in-Residency, Latvia • June 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photo: PAIR photo Sintija Gadiga
 

Wingel Mendoza was awarded with one of the PAiR Spring artistic residences

The PAiR residency is a space for inventive encounters, where artists, researchers and curators can develop their projects in a stimulating, distraction-free environment of interdisciplinary dialogue.

A point of intersection between humans and nature, the local and the global, cutting-edge practices and age-old traditions, PAiR is a place where new meanings emerge via creative experiments and interdisciplinary knowledge-sharing.
Wingel Mendoza, the Mainz sound art alumni, has been accepted into a very international PAiR residency programme.
Congratulations!

Wingel Mendoza im Kunst-Würfel Bischofsheim • Mai 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Klanginstallationen von Wingel Mendoza

Time sculpture – Senza tempo. For 12 channels, stones and white woodsticks

03.05.2024 von 18-20 Uhr mit Vernissage/Live-Musik

04.05.2024 von 15-19 Uhr

05.05.2024 von 15-19 Uhr

Der KUNST-WÜRFEL ist eine einzigartige Kreativstätte in Bischofsheim, in der sich Kunst und Kultur vielfach entfalten kann, ohne wirtschaftliche Zwänge, frei von formellen Ansprüchen, frei von zeitlichen und terminlichen Einengungen.

KUNST-WÜRFEL e.V.
Hans-Dorr-Allee,
65474 Bischofsheim

https://kunst-wuerfel.de/

 

NOISESTADT in Mainz

Today:

Days for Sound Art
26 - 28 April + 03 - 05 May
Opening hours: 17:00 - 20:00
K-LAB / Karoline-Stern-Platz 11 / Mainz
https://www.kulturbaeckerei-mainz.de/aktuelles/

Vernissage with live music: 26 April 24 | 17:00
NOISESTADT sees itself as a forum for sound art. As part of the Sound Art Days, installations by students and alumni of the Sound Art Composition class at the Mainz University of Music will be presented over two weekends at the end of April/beginning of May at the KULTURBÄCKEREI in Mainz Neustadt. Stefan Fricke will also be there. Sounding artistic objects and media installations have been created that react to the various locations and transform them into special spaces of experience: a Noisestadt in the Neustadt.

Live sounds will also be played at the vernissage on 26 April:

Wingel Mendoza: meat | live electronics

Leon Senger: solo improvisation | drumset

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