27.01.2020 8 p.m.
Inside piano, electronics : Andrea Neumann
Trumpet, electronics: Sabine Ercklentz
Turntables, electronics: Mieko Suzuki
Trumpet, electronics: Sabine Ercklentz
Turntables, electronics: Mieko Suzuki
15.02.2020, 8 p.m.
The Aesthetics of Resistance
Rap Remixes on Peter Weiss’s description of the Pergamon Altar with Ayben, David Moss, and Volkan T Error
The Aesthetics of Resistance
Rap Remixes on Peter Weiss’s description of the Pergamon Altar with Ayben, David Moss, and Volkan T Error
29.02.2020, 9 p.m.
DJ-Battle Lippok Bros. vs. Nicolai Bros
Robert & Ronald Lippok, Carsten & Olaf Nicolai
DJ-Battle Lippok Bros. vs. Nicolai Bros
Robert & Ronald Lippok, Carsten & Olaf Nicolai
CEVDET EREK
Bergama Stereo
Architectural construction with sound & performance program
Exhibition:
October 19, 2019 – March 8, 2020
Performance program:
January 27, February 15 & 29, 2020
Hamburger Bahnhof
Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin / Historic Hall
Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Invalidenstr. 50-51, 10557 Berlin
Tue, Wed, Fri 10–6, Thu 10–8, Sat, Sun 11–6
In “Bergama Stereo”, an architectural installation with sound, the Istanbul-based artist and musician Cevdet Erek references the form, the historically attributed function, and the reception of the Pergamon Altar, now located in Berlin, and creates a new interpretation of the famous Hellenistic edifice.
The exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the series “Works of Music by Visual Artists” and is accompanied by a performance program as an integral component of the presentation. The program picks up on themes and structural aspects of the architecture such as symmetry, balance, contradiction and struggle, as well as content-related aspects such as the striking description of the Pergamon Altar in “The Aesthetics of Resistance” by Peter Weiss.
PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
Monday, January 27, 2020, 8 p.m.
Contagious [De-Constructed]
Three-part concert evening: Duo, Solo, Trio
Contagious
Three-part concert evening: Duo, Solo, Trio
Contagious
Inside piano, electronics : Andrea Neumann
Trumpet, electronics: Sabine Ercklentz
Turntables, electronics: Mieko Suzuki
Founded by Andrea Neumann and Sabine Ercklentz, two innovative voices from the Berlin improvisation scene, and Mieko Suzuki, experimental DJ and musician operating in Berlin, the contagious trio explores the intersections between club-oriented, danceable music on the one hand and ‘autonomous’ experimental music on the other, opening up new aesthetic spaces through mutual ‘contagion’. The musicians raid each other’s musical realms and exchange roles. Within fragile sound textures, pulses grow audible. Grooves disintegrate into fragments of sound, which coalesce into a trancelike flow. Morphine Records released CONTAGIOUS, their first album, in November, 2019.
The concert begins with “drehwurm”, a duo set that finds Ercklentz and Neumann roaming the territory of Minimal Techno. In the following solo set by Mieko Suzuki, the live recording of “drehwurm” gets reinterpreted and remixed through the unique lens of the experimental DJ.
In cooperation with CTM Festival 2020.
Saturday, February 15, 2020, 8 p.m.
The Aesthetics of Resistance
Rap Remixes on Peter Weiss’s description of the Pergamon Altar in German, Turkish, English
Voices: Ayben, David Moss, Volkan T
An open-ended experiment! – Ayben, the renowned Turkish rapper from Istanbul; Volkan T error, the German-born Berlin resident and pioneer of Turkish Hip Hop, Hard- & Metalcore; and David Moss, the American-born Berlin resident and doyen of experimental vocal and percussion forms, have been invited to work with the magnificent description of the Pergamon Altar that opens the monumental three-volume novel “The Aesthetics of Resistance” (1976–81) by Peter Weiss. Using the installation, the three deconstruct and remix the text into new musical rhythms in German, Turkish and English.
Saturday, Feburary 29, 2020, 9 p.m.
DJ-Battle Lippok Bros. vs. Nicolai Bros.
Robert & Ronald Lippok, Carsten & Olaf Nicolai
4 turntables, 2 mixer, 1 dancefloor, 1 jury, 1 price
As unique personalities, Carsten and Olaf Nicolai and Robert and Ronald Lippok are outstanding protagonists in the landscape of the visual arts and music in Berlin, Germany and far beyond. The experienced DJs square off tonight in a rare, bizarre competition. Who will perform better, who will get people more in the mood and moving? The artists will be subject to the strict verdict of a jury. After DJ-Battles in 2009 and 2010 in the Temporäre Kunsthalle in Berlin and at the CTM Festival in 2011, the brothers Nicolai and Lippok compete against each other once again to celebrate 20 years of “Works of Music by Visual Artists”. May the competition keep on going!
Trumpet, electronics: Sabine Ercklentz
Turntables, electronics: Mieko Suzuki
Founded by Andrea Neumann and Sabine Ercklentz, two innovative voices from the Berlin improvisation scene, and Mieko Suzuki, experimental DJ and musician operating in Berlin, the contagious trio explores the intersections between club-oriented, danceable music on the one hand and ‘autonomous’ experimental music on the other, opening up new aesthetic spaces through mutual ‘contagion’. The musicians raid each other’s musical realms and exchange roles. Within fragile sound textures, pulses grow audible. Grooves disintegrate into fragments of sound, which coalesce into a trancelike flow. Morphine Records released CONTAGIOUS, their first album, in November, 2019.
The concert begins with “drehwurm”, a duo set that finds Ercklentz and Neumann roaming the territory of Minimal Techno. In the following solo set by Mieko Suzuki, the live recording of “drehwurm” gets reinterpreted and remixed through the unique lens of the experimental DJ.
In cooperation with CTM Festival 2020.
Saturday, February 15, 2020, 8 p.m.
The Aesthetics of Resistance
Rap Remixes on Peter Weiss’s description of the Pergamon Altar in German, Turkish, English
Voices: Ayben, David Moss, Volkan T
An open-ended experiment! – Ayben, the renowned Turkish rapper from Istanbul; Volkan T error, the German-born Berlin resident and pioneer of Turkish Hip Hop, Hard- & Metalcore; and David Moss, the American-born Berlin resident and doyen of experimental vocal and percussion forms, have been invited to work with the magnificent description of the Pergamon Altar that opens the monumental three-volume novel “The Aesthetics of Resistance” (1976–81) by Peter Weiss. Using the installation, the three deconstruct and remix the text into new musical rhythms in German, Turkish and English.
Saturday, Feburary 29, 2020, 9 p.m.
DJ-Battle Lippok Bros. vs. Nicolai Bros.
Robert & Ronald Lippok, Carsten & Olaf Nicolai
4 turntables, 2 mixer, 1 dancefloor, 1 jury, 1 price
As unique personalities, Carsten and Olaf Nicolai and Robert and Ronald Lippok are outstanding protagonists in the landscape of the visual arts and music in Berlin, Germany and far beyond. The experienced DJs square off tonight in a rare, bizarre competition. Who will perform better, who will get people more in the mood and moving? The artists will be subject to the strict verdict of a jury. After DJ-Battles in 2009 and 2010 in the Temporäre Kunsthalle in Berlin and at the CTM Festival in 2011, the brothers Nicolai and Lippok compete against each other once again to celebrate 20 years of “Works of Music by Visual Artists”. May the competition keep on going!
Coproduction by Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V., Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and Ruhrtriennale.
Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation with support from the SAHA Association.
Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation with support from the SAHA Association.
Cevdet Erek works 