Sleep Disorders - 4th Episode in Paris on june 4th

 

Mardi 4 juin 2013 - 18h30

Cité Internationale des Arts, Montmartre

24, rue Norvins

75018 Paris

Atelier C3

Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 - 18h30

Cité Internationale des Arts, Montmartre.

24, rue Norvins

75018 Paris

Studio C3

Colin Cook

Julia Cottin

Anthony Freestone

Marcel Gähler

Sébastien Gouju

Laura Gozlan

Jo-ey Tang

Donald Urquhart

Marion Auburtin

Benjamin L. Aman

SLEEP DISORDERS

New Release : Palix - Benjamin L. Aman

Palix - Benjamin L. Aman / transports
Released on Razzle Dazzle
50 copies 

Recent collaboration between Paris based laptop composer Palix and Benjamin L. Aman, visual and sound artist born in France. These two artists started working together at The Living Currency a performative exhibition curated by CAC Bretigny, conducted by Palix for 6th Berlin BIennale in 2010 at HAU 2 and dedicated to a group interpretation of several pieces from Christian Wolff, Scratch Orchestra' members and Cornelius Cardew. Then, both musicians kept collaborating on their own work, sharing the same interest for visual compositions and invisible travels.

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OPEN STUDIOS Cité Internationale des Arts - Paris

Annexe de Montmartre -

Jeudi 6 décembre 2012 de 17h00 à 22h00

Entrée: 24 rue Norvins ou 16 rue Girardon, 75018 Paris -

Atelier Radet 09 : Aurélie Pollet, Candice Hayat et Michael Prigent -
Atelier B03 : Morgane Denzler et Adrien Vermont-
Atelier C01 : Guillaume Aubry et Laure Vigna-
Atelier C02 : Marion Auburtin, Benjamin Lauren-Aman et Jo-Ey Tang-
Atelier C04 : Juliana Borinski et Julia Cottin-
Atelier D02 : Ozlem Sulak et Gaetan Robillard-
Atelier D04 : Donald Urquhart-
Atelier E02 : Boris Chouvellon, David Ancelin et Julien Bouillon-
Atelier G01 : Jeanne Lacombe et Zsofia Szemzo-
Atelier G04 : Kirill Ukolov et Loic Blairon-
Atelier G05 : Estrella Estevez-
Atelier G07 : Ombeline de la Gournerie

New Release : Crystal Plumage 'Night Conference'

CRYSTAL PLUMAGE "night conference" c30
 
Crystal Plumage is a collaboration duo of Benjamin L. Aman from France (guitars
and electronics) and Sean F. Barrett from Germany (electronics & synth).
Night Conference encloses a hollow and nocturnal sound.
minimalist guitars, slow pulse, object and leaden drones.
Great minimalist composition very evocative and suggestive.
(sincope records)

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AG 30-320 performed at Bei Roy

live at Bei Roy, Ohrengala (Audition Records) - April 29th, 2012

Sound / light / action

Video by Julian Bonequi & audition records

With Karsten Schulze and Geesche Boedecker 

SLEEP DISORDERS

Third episode curated with Marion Auburtin & Melissa Steckbauer

August 2 - August 16, 2012

Opening 

August 2nd, 16:00 - 22:00H

Open Hours

Saturday and Sunday 14:00 - 19:00H

and by appointment*

Michael Barthel
Enrico Bertelli
Barbara Breitenfellner
Mirja Busch
Leif Elggren
Agnès Geoffray
Marthe Krüger
Benjamin L. Aman

Daniel Löwenbrück
Jean-François Robardet

The Wand

Paulstr. 34

Berlin, Germany, 10557

www.thewand.weebly.com

This presentation of Sleep Disorders is the third in a series of projects initiated in 2010 by artists Marion Auburtin and Benjamin Aman; they have been invited by Melissa Steckbauer at The Wand to co-curate a new show, culling work and artists from their program mixed with a short selection of Steckbauer's choosing.  Together they will address themes shifting between conditions of inner quietude, restlessness, and inexplicable upset.  Materials are given special attention, will be expansively reconfigured, and gently pushed into borderline positions within the rooms of the project space.  Below is an excerpt from the “Sleep Disorders” catalog held at Centres d'Art Contemporain Dominique Lang & Nei Liicht, 2011.

Whether one is lost in dreamland or crushed down beneath the yoke, there comes a moment when sleep eases the conscious from the burden of life, letting it drift away. Everybody seems to take for granted the many references made to the night or to the darkness in visual or poetic arts. Be it as a bottomless abyss or as a real hamper to action - obscurity comes out as an ideal state to reveal the most indistinctable shapes or forces. Hence Sleep Disorders must not be perceived as an exhibition purely centered on dreams or night itself. Instead of putting the accent on the possible "obvious" side of the works presented, we wish to give a push to a still side, to a sort of shady environement gradually brightening up into the mere core of action.

Sleep Disorders shows pieces of dormant instability, pieces standing right on the very thin edge of the wedge. Some of them drag you through endless contradictions, others take you through the meanders of obsessions. Some just make it thanks to the "benefit of doubt". And this despite the fact that all of them are put together in the depth of the same state of uncertainty, when one longs for a recovering rest endlessly postponed to the day after. We cannot expect the artists to trick us because they are not tricksters, nor to reassure us because their aim is not to reassure.

– Benjamin L. Aman

*For further details please call
+0049 (0)17698202241

Empty Space - Live + Exhibition at Hbc, Berlin - July 21st

‘As far as consistency of thought goes I prefer inconsistency’ John Cage, interview by John Corbett (1989)

The empty space is a fundamental component of our Universe, as it represent 75 % of it. Hypothetic theories based on a cosmological constant form advance that a constant energy is filling the space and has a role of vacuum but the predicational measurements of this matter is not coinciding with the quantum theory that we know today. It’s the paradoxical state of unsubstantial materiality that interests us: the empty space is actually not empty and possesses it’s own energy, where quantum particles are in constant movement forming and disappearing. Yet, this empty space is imaged empty because it is, indeed, the observation of the absence of real material in spacial zones. Relation to the silence is an other way to explore the empty idea, with the concepts of both ‘white noise’ (all audible frequencies at the same time) and ‘black noise’ (silence). That’s through the succession, superposition and intermingling of all that vacuum that we’ll describe a story of the empty.