res·o·nant, 2017, Installation Jüdisches Museum Berlin / © Ladislav Zajac / Archive Mischa Kuball
res·o·nant, 2017
Jewish Museum Berlin
17.11.2017-01.09.2019
Eine Lich- und Klanginstallation von Mischa Kuball im Jüdischen Museum Berlin / A Light and Sound Installation by Mischa Kuball at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Das Jüdische Museum Berlin präsentierte mit res·o·nant eine begehbare Licht- und Klanginstallation des Konzeptkünstlers Mischa Kuball. Die ortsbezogene Installation wurde eigens für die Ausstellungsfläche im Untergeschoss des Libeskind-Baus geschaffen. Auf insgesamt mehr als 350 Quadratmetern bespielt res·o·nant zwei der fünf den Museumsbau vertikal durchziehenden Voids. In den 24 Meter hohen Räumen werfen rotierende Projektoren Lichtfelder in Form der Void-Grundrisse an Wände, Decken, Boden sowie auf den Besucher selbst, der vom Betrachter zum Teil der Installation wird. Diese symbolischen Leerstellen, auf deren Materialität, Wirkung und Bedeutung sich Mischa Kuball bezieht, bilden den Ausgangspunkt für res·o·nant. Ebenso wird mittels drehender Spiegelelemente und Stroboskop-Blitze eine Resonanz zwischen Architektur und Körper erzeugt sowie ein Wahrnehmungs- und Reflektionsprozess anregt. Verstärkt wird die Installation durch das akustische Element von 60-sekündigen Sound-dateien, eingereicht von über 200 MusikerInnen in einem Open Call.
The Jewish Museum Berlin exhibited res·o·nant – a walk-through light and sound installation by the Düsseldorf conceptual artist Mischa Kuball. Kuball created the installation specially for the new exhibition space on the lower ground floor of the Libeskind building.
Covering a total floor space of more than 350 square meters, res·o·nant incorporates two of the five vertical voids that perforate the Museum building. These symbolically laden empty spaces form the starting point for the artist’s work, which refers to the materiality, effect and signification of the voids. Museum visitors will thus have the opportunity to re-discover these two voids, which have become something of a Museum trademark since the opening of the Museum in 2001.
In these rooms with 24-meter-high ceilings, rotating projectors cast light fields in the form of the outline of the voids onto walls and ceiling. By means of rotating mirror elements and stroboscopic light impulses, there arises, in the words of the artist, a "resonance between architecture and skin."
As an important element of the installation, several loudspeakers, distributed throughout the room, loop a series of 60-second-long sound clips – so-called Skits – which were composed specially for res·o·nant by more than 50 musicians.
From now through the summer of 2019, various interventions are also planned in several popular outdoor spaces throughout the city of Berlin. Besides performances and concerts, the outlines of the Museum voids will also be projected onto public spaces; and the physical borders of the Museum thus blurred or displaced.
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION / Institut für Kunstdokumentation
res·o·nant LIVE / Berlin Art Week
Urban Intervention by Mischa Kuball
Oranienstraße 1
Oranienstraße 1, Berlin-Kreuzberg / DE
September 26—30, 2018
Mike Banks
Soundscapes
Live Installation within the installation res·o·nant by Mischa Kuball
Jewish Museum Berlin, Lindenstr. 9-14, 10969 Berlin / DE
September 28+29, 2018 / 4—8 p.m.
As part of Berlin Art Week, the American musician Mike Banks will be performing his piece Soundscapes live at the Jewish Museum Berlin. On two days, he will playing music in the res·o·nant installation by Mischa Kuball, incorporating multiple synthesizers whose sounds interact with Mischa Kuball’s installation and Daniel Libeskind’s architecture. The result will be an ever-shifting sound performance that gives visitors a new perspective on Mischa Kuball’s installation and the museum’s Voids. Mike Banks is a record producer and a key player in the Detroit techno scene. Together with Jeff Mills, he co-founded the music project and internationally known record label Underground Resistance. Bank’s projects and Underground Resistence stand apart for both their radical musical taste and their persistent social criticism.