The History Of Electricity

Alexander Hacke combines sounds from the analog-monophon Korg MS-20 Synthesizer with digital-computer signals. This clash produces intense results: floating sounds meet rhythmical sequences, electrical buzzing harmonizes with sub frequent chord progressions.

Danielle de Picciotto intensifies the developing sound with her visual part of the show. She shows electricity in a flexible form ever changing and morphing into new streams of speed and beauty. In each chapter she starts with an image, which she adapts to the music’s progression. The different phases of this development are an example of electricity as an aesthetic form.

Film Screening

In 1985 the legendary industrial band, Einsturzende Neubauten traveled to Japan and this film is a document of their visit seen through the eyes of underground filmmaker, Sogo Ishii. The set begins with the band playing their assorted “instruments” alone in the post-industrial like landscape of an abandoned warehouse and extends outwards into discordant, even disturbing territory, casting various band members into (...) details here

Exhibition

The painting process is intense, but printmaking affords distance and physicality. With paint you build up, print you take away. Printing is more scientific and mechanical, while painting is more intense – put a bit of paint on and then straight away you’ve got to put more, affecting the relationship with each other thing on the canvas. In printmaking you do something, complete it and then based on the result have to decide, after a first ‘run’ (...) details here