{"id":88001,"date":"2024-01-03T11:22:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T11:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=88001"},"modified":"2024-01-24T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T13:52:16","slug":"finissage-and-music-performance-iannis-xenakis-sonic-odysseys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/events-en\/finissage-and-music-performance-iannis-xenakis-sonic-odysseys","title":{"rendered":"FINISSAGE & MUSIC PERFORMANCE “IANNIS XENAKIS. SONIC ODYSSEYS”"},"content":{"rendered":"

EM\u03a3\u03a4 | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, welcomes the new year with the finissage of the exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Sonic Odysseys <\/em>and a live work by the Berlin-based duo LABOUR.<\/p>\n

Co-produced by \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4 and the Mus\u00e9e de la Musique \u2013 Philharmonie de Paris, the exhibition focuses on the most important and ground-breaking work of Xenakis\u2019s visual, literary, architectural, and musical output, while illuminating his personal history by contextualising the composer in his times, and the political and cultural movements that defined him as an artist. Iannis Xenakis: Sonic Odysseys<\/em>, curated by M\u00e2khi Xenakis, Thierry Maniguet and Katerina Gregos, is the largest exhibition dedicated to the work of Xenakis internationally to date, and includes a wealth of material from the Xenakis Family Archives, on view for the very first time.<\/p>\n

As part of the finissage, the Berlin-based duo LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander) presented their participatory multidisciplinary performance work,\u00a0 sungazing<\/em>.
\nsungazing<\/em> is the spatio-sonic ritual by LABOUR that takes the obscure eponymous practice of sungazing as a conceptual center for the creation of a large-scale work combining computer music, acoustic instruments, visual elements and performance through stochastic processes superimposed upon one another to create environments that alternate between collective and individual addressal.<\/p>\n

Within various environments of flux, stasis, immersion and its opposite, groups of performers move through vast physical spaces approaching, intersecting and withdrawing from the audience who are invited to freely explore the space and discover sound through new listening positions where simultaneously occurring elements throughout the building create unique listening experiences depending on one\u2019s position.\u00a0 Visual and performative elements support the spatial listening environment and help guide the sonic parcour<\/em> throughout the entire museum.<\/p>\n

LABOUR\u2019s understanding of sungazing contains elements of warning, of seduction, of danger on the one hand, and of potential discovery, attainment of knowledge and wisdom on the other hand, highlighting this tension within intense processes of self and collective realization and evoking a range of ritualized actions from the spiritual to that of civil disobedience.<\/p>\n

sungazing <\/em>premiered at Kraftwerk Berlin for the centenary celebration of Xenakis in 2022 called X100, and carries on in new site-specific iterations, drawing inspiration from ancient Zoroastrian rituals involving fire and light, in partial reference to Xenakis\u2019 epic work at Persepolis in Iran in 1971.<\/p>\n

For LABOUR, the pursuit of music as catalytic, as a site for internal mental and psychic transformations remains ever vital:\u00a0 to create new modes of thought, new conceptions of time and space, and new modalities of togetherness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EM\u03a3\u03a4 | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, welcomes the new year with the finissage of the exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Sonic Odysseys and a live work by the Berlin-based duo LABOUR. Co-produced by \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4 and the Mus\u00e9e de la Musique \u2013 Philharmonie de Paris, the exhibition focuses on the most important and ground-breaking work of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88001"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88089,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88001\/revisions\/88089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}