"Medusa’s Ashes (Iterations) and Medusa’s Ashes (Wildcard) is a text-based work that translates into a performance for 6 voices and a video-installation at MaximiliansForum. The text material stems from diaristic entries, newspaper headlines, conversation with friends, poems and transcriptions of slogans and banners at current feminist and anti-war marches, collected in the last 365 days between Paris, Tbilisi and Munich. The work reflects on the search for transnational solidarity in times of political upheaval, and interrogates the shifts and fractures between 1st person singular and 1st person plural; (self)-censorship and self-policing; and how the rehearsal of bodies in public space continuously morphs and is rearranged by memory, trauma, opportunism, and fanaticism. A soundscape produced together with musician Nana Takvarelia accompanies these words, a collage of field recordings, noises and chants documented during the anti-government, pro-European protests and marches that have been taking place in Tbilisi almost every day since Georgia’s disputed parliamentary elections last October 2024; sounds from Parisian rallies, Munich crickets and (saxophone) compositions by Jakob Jentgens accompany the score, as well as a new series of lithography prints.
In addition to the exhibition program, a “Screaming Workshop” (RAGE IS NOT A LUXURY) lead by artist neneh noï, a panel discussion with musicians Nana Takvarelia and Jakob Jentgens (Making noise: On Protests, Song and Street Soundscapes), an artist talk with Giulia Zabarella, performers and Laura Leppert, and a music performance with Jakob Jentgens (In the State of current affairs) will take place between July 16th and September 28th.
In collaboration with: Veronica Vagnoni, Anastasiya Shtemenko, Nicola Kötterl, Wiebke Dobers, Eléonore Barbara Bovet, Carla Vollmers, Nana Takvarelia, Jakob Jentgens, Sol Archer, Raquel Ro, luvan, Laura Leppert, Tino Gutsch, neneh noï, Alma Apt, Klarissa Flückiger.
Supported by: Kulturreferat Munich (Sparte Bildende Künste), Stiftung Stark für Gegenwartskunst, Erwin und Gisela von Steiner-Stiftung, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Kunstatelier Schlossallee (Büro Grandezza e.V.)"