Limbó Opening: TOWARDS SOUND // The Rampant Wall
Welcome to the opening of TOWARDS SOUND // The Rampant Wall on March 23rd, 17:00—19:00; a participatory exhibition displaying visual traces of sonic thought, co-curated by composer Ruth Wiesenfeld and visual artist Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir. Open call information here.
Since its inception in the summer of 2020, more than seventy international sound creators have taken sketches, notes and drawings out of their drawers to contribute them to The Fleeting Archive of TOWARDS SOUND. These personal documents provide insight into all aspects of individual creative processes. The archive’s holdings are shared with the public in the traveling, participatory exhibition format The Rampant Wall, which focuses on collective creative energy rather than the individual sketch. The setting-up takes place as a collaborative act together with local composers and sonic artists who are invited to add their own artifacts of sketching. Assembled in a large, sprawling field, these by-products of artistic processes form a topography of conscious and unconscious aesthetic action. They are a visualization of creative work in itself, detached from the question of authorship, a conglomeration of designs with utopian potential.
Ruth Wiesenfeld is a composer and curator, living in Berlin, Germany. She holds a PhD in music composition from Dartington College of Arts, University of Plymouth, where she studied with Frank Denyer. Ruth’s body of works consist of scores in conventional as well as experimental forms of notation, sculptural objects, installations and videos. In July 2020 she launched the project TOWARDS SOUND, an archive and series of events rendering sonic imagination tangible. Ruth teaches at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, and her works are published by Verlag Neue Musik. In recent years she co-created the a cappella opera The Crown of Creation with Fuck Marry Kill Productions and has been commissioned to create works for various soloists and chamber ensembles.
Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir received her master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, in 2006 and her BFA from the Iceland University of Arts in 2002. Hauksdóttir combines elements of drawing and audio compositions, performance, and sculpture, to create transient conceptual installations and performances, exploring themes like human identity and earth beings. Her works circle around questions concerning human reactions to roles and systems set up by society and their confluence to the natural world. Her work is shown internationally, notably at the 2015 Venice Biennale for Lichtenstein at the Swiss pavilion as part of the Silver Lining with the performance Der Abstand. Her works are found in the public collections of the National Gallery of Iceland, The Uppsala Art Museum in Sweden, the Hess Gallery Collection in Lethbridge, Canada and the collection of the Living Art Museum in Reykjavik.
TOWARDS SOUND // The Rampant Wall is supported by funds from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
Welcome to the opening of TOWARDS SOUND // The Rampant Wall on March 23rd, 17:00—19:00; a participatory exhibition displaying visual traces of sonic thought, co-curated by composer Ruth Wiesenfeld and visual artist Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir. Open call information here.
Since its inception in the summer of 2020, more than seventy international sound creators have taken sketches, notes and drawings out of their drawers to contribute them to The Fleeting Archive of TOWARDS SOUND. These personal documents provide insight into all aspects of individual creative processes. The archive’s holdings are shared with the public in the traveling, participatory exhibition format The Rampant Wall, which focuses on collective creative energy rather than the individual sketch. The setting-up takes place as a collaborative act together with local composers and sonic artists who are invited to add their own artifacts of sketching. Assembled in a large, sprawling field, these by-products of artistic processes form a topography of conscious and unconscious aesthetic action. They are a visualization of creative work in itself, detached from the question of authorship, a conglomeration of designs with utopian potential.
Ruth Wiesenfeld is a composer and curator, living in Berlin, Germany. She holds a PhD in music composition from Dartington College of Arts, University of Plymouth, where she studied with Frank Denyer. Ruth’s body of works consist of scores in conventional as well as experimental forms of notation, sculptural objects, installations and videos. In July 2020 she launched the project TOWARDS SOUND, an archive and series of events rendering sonic imagination tangible. Ruth teaches at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, and her works are published by Verlag Neue Musik. In recent years she co-created the a cappella opera The Crown of Creation with Fuck Marry Kill Productions and has been commissioned to create works for various soloists and chamber ensembles.
Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir received her master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, in 2006 and her BFA from the Iceland University of Arts in 2002. Hauksdóttir combines elements of drawing and audio compositions, performance, and sculpture, to create transient conceptual installations and performances, exploring themes like human identity and earth beings. Her works circle around questions concerning human reactions to roles and systems set up by society and their confluence to the natural world. Her work is shown internationally, notably at the 2015 Venice Biennale for Lichtenstein at the Swiss pavilion as part of the Silver Lining with the performance Der Abstand. Her works are found in the public collections of the National Gallery of Iceland, The Uppsala Art Museum in Sweden, the Hess Gallery Collection in Lethbridge, Canada and the collection of the Living Art Museum in Reykjavik.
TOWARDS SOUND // The Rampant Wall is supported by funds from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
