Extended Spaces — Resonant Bodies: Alvin Lucier

21.09.2024 – 22.09.2024
With Alvin Lucier

Saturday, 21.09., 1:30 – 6:00 pm
Sunday, 22.09., 10:30 am – 4:00 pm

The festival Extended Spaces — Resonant Bodies: Alvin Lucier by singuhr – projekte embarks on the traces of the American composer and artist Alvin Lucier, who passed away in December 2021. It is conceived as a tribute to the composer and, simultaneously, as an explicitly contemporary project — a homage to the artist who remained active into old age and was always open to new contexts.

The two-day symposium marking the festival’s conclusion at the daadgalerie highlights Alvin Lucier’s outstanding role in experimental music and sound art up to the present day. The symposium’s participants will explore Lucier’s artistic concepts through exemplary works from his extraordinary oeuvre from a theoretical and practical perspective. Lucier’s extensive teaching career at Wesleyan University will also be a topic of discussion, with several former students among the speakers. The program is complemented with documents from the archive of DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, where Alvin Lucier was a music fellow in 1990/91.

Speakers: Helga de la Motte, Douglas Kahn (online), Nicolas Collins, Ron Kuivila, Charles Curtis (online), Zeynep Bulut, Volker Straebel, Matthieu Saladin; Panel Guests: Robyn Schulkowsky, Carsten Seiffarth; Moderators: Jan Thoben and Matthieu Saladin

daadgalerie, Oranienstr. 161, 10969 Berlin
Free admission, no registration required
Talks will be in English

Photo: Alvin Lucier, Parochialkirche 1999, by Michael Schroedter