{"id":2704,"date":"2013-12-10T14:32:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T14:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2014-05-13T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:55:11","slug":"susan-philipsz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/?p=2704&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Susan Philipsz"},"content":{"rendered":"

01.02. \u2013 04.05.2014
\nOpening: 31.01.2014, 8 p.m.
\n Hamburger Bahnhof
\nMuseum f\u00fcr Gegenwart \u2013 Berlin <\/strong>\/ Historic Hall
\nStaatliche Museen zu Berlin
\nInvalidenstr. 50-51, 10557 Berlin
\nTue, Wed, Fri 10\u20136, Thu 10\u20138, Sat, Sun 11\u20136<\/p>\n

Part File Score<\/strong><\/p>\n

24-channel sound installation
\nTwelve ways to describe Hanns Eisler<\/p>\n

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Photo: Nick Ash<\/p>\n

The sound works by the internationally acclaimed Berlin-based Scottish artist Susan Philipsz are often created for particular locations and refer to their history and spatial features. For the historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof \u2013 Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwart \u2013 Berlin, Philipsz has designed a sound installation that relates both to the building\u2019s former function as a railway station and to the architectonic structure of the hall with its 12 archways. The artist connects the former railway station \u2013 a place of departure and arrival, of parting and return \u2013 with the eventful life of the composer Hanns Eisler (1898\u20131962), who lived in Berlin in the 1920s and 1950s. Eisler, who like his mentor Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg had immigrated to the USA in the 1930s, was deported from the country in 1948 due to his pro-communist political convictions. Although Eisler did compose in the twelve-tone technique of his mentor, his conception of socially committed art led him to turn also to ‚popular‘ genres such as music for stage and screen. He was a prolific composer of songs, including many for workers\u2019 choruses and international labor movement rallies. In 1949, while living in the eastern sector of Berlin, Eisler composed the national anthem of the GDR.<\/p>\n

For her sound installation Part File Score,<\/em> Susan Philipsz has created three pieces, which play consecutively in the hall. Each piece is based on one of Eisler\u2019s musical works for film. \u00a0Eisler wrote Prelude in the Form of a Passacaglia<\/em> (1926) for one of Walther Ruttmann\u2019s first abstract films, Lichtspiel:<\/em> Opus III<\/em> (1924). The score was Hanns Eisler\u2019s first composition for film. Its melancholic tenor also pervades Fourteen Ways to Describe Rain<\/em> (1941), which Eisler composed for the film Regen<\/em> (1929) by Joris Ivens. The Regen<\/em> score was commissioned in conjunction with the publication Composing for the Films<\/em> (1947), which Eisler published together with Theodor W. Adorno. That same year, Eisler wrote the Septet No.2<\/em> (1947) for the film The Circus<\/em> (1928) by Charlie Chaplin. Work on this composition was interrupted by Eisler\u2019s deportation from the USA, and the music was never used in the film.<\/p>\n

In keeping with an artistic principle that Philipsz already applied in Study for Strings<\/em>, presented at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel in 2012, as well as in The Missing String,<\/em> her recently realized sound installation in D\u00fcsseldorf, the artist separately recorded each tone of the above-mentioned Eisler compositions in the studio. The recorded sounds, played by a violin, a cello, a trumpet, and a piano, are in turn separated and heard from 24 loudspeakers installed along the length of the historic grand industrial hall \u2013 12 on the right and 12 on the left. Each loudspeaker is assigned a tone on the chromatic scale, so that each of the instrumental voices becomes spatialized and wanders through the entire hall.<\/p>\n

With this audio work and twelve accompanying large-format prints, in which pages of Eisler\u2019s scores are superimposed with pages from his FBI files, Philipsz seeks an approach to Eisler\u2019s aesthetic of the displaced form<\/em> so as to evoke themes suggesting the journey of life as well as the experience of separation, surveillance and expulsion. The title of the sound installation refers to the four extant parts of the FBI\u2019s files on Eisler.<\/p>\n

Susan Philipsz<\/strong> (*1965 in Glasgow), winner of the prestigious Turner Prize in 2010, works primarily with the medium of sound in her investigation of musical and literary sources and specific historical constellations. She frequently makes use of familiar tunes and pop songs, performed in her own voice and recorded, in order to create an acoustic environment that relates to the particular location in an exhibition space or an urban setting. Lately she has made increasing use of instrumental compositions and acoustic material such as field recordings and radio signals, which she adapts for staging in particular settings.<\/p>\n

The exhibition by Susan Philipsz is the current project in the series Works of Music by Visual Artists<\/em>, which Freunde Guter Musik Berlin has presented in collaboration with the Nationalgalerie since 1999 and, since 2002, with MaerzMusik, the contemporary music festival of the Berliner Festspiele. It is the artist\u2019s first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin, where she has lived since 2001.<\/p>\n

Curators:<\/strong>
\nIngrid Buschmann \/ Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V.
\nGabriele Knapstein \/ Hamburger Bahnhof \u2013 Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwart \u2013 Berlin<\/p>\n

Further Information:
\n<\/strong>www.musikwerke-bildender-kuenstler.de
\n<\/a>www.smb.museum\/hbf<\/a><\/p>\n

Video:<\/strong>
\nSusan Philispz, Part File Score on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Supported by:<\/strong>
\nwww.hauptstadtkulturfonds.berlin.de<\/a>
\nwww.scheringstiftung.de <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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01.02. \u2013 04.05.2014 Opening: 31.01.2014, 8 p.m. Hamburger Bahnhof Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwart \u2013 Berlin \/ Historic Hall Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Invalidenstr. 50-51, 10557 Berlin Tue, Wed, Fri 10\u20136, Thu 10\u20138, Sat, Sun 11\u20136 Part File Score 24-channel sound installation Twelve ways to describe Hanns Eisler Photo: Nick Ash The sound works by the internationally acclaimed Berlin-based Scottish artist Susan Philipsz are often created for particular locations and refer to their history and spatial features. For the historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof \u2013 Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwart \u2013 Berlin, Philipsz has designed a sound installation that relates both to the building\u2019s former function as a railway station and to the architectonic structure of the hall…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,19],"tags":[246,34,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}