For the virtual visit, please note that the Traits d’union.s exhibition takes place in two outdoor courtyards, as well as on the first and second floor.
For two centuries, The Palace of Arts has been home to many of the city’s educational and cultural institutions: museums, libraries, archives, ballets and now a music school.
Throughout the building, rehearsals can be heard, coming from different rooms and resonating through its walls—at times clearly audible, at others silenced. The School: The Sonorous, The Audible and The Silenced unfolds throughout the building’s neo-classical architecture encapsulating some of its previous functions. Simultaneously charged with the potentialities of the past, it becomes a multi-layered sonic space where works in progress are paralleled by virtuoso performances.
For most of human history, creating, performing, and listening to music has been a social activity. Over the past 400 years, orchestral music has developed its own set of governing principles. One might even think of the orchestra, soloist and conductor as a social body in itself, composed by clear hierarchies, rules and scripts. But it is not without its own historical and ideological tensions: between discipline and spontaneity, between individualism and collectivity. What does it mean to act in concert? How can we imagine a social virtuosity?
Participants: Yalda Afsah* (1983, DE/IR), Mounir Ayache* (1991, FR), Mohamed Bourouissa* (1978, DZ/FR), Julien Creuzet* (1986, FR), Benjamin de Burca & Barbara Wagner* (1975, DE / 1980, BR), Ymane Fakhir* (1969, MA), Tuan Andrew Nguyen* (1976, VN), Reena Spaulings.
Satellites venues from the 11th of September: Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff* (1988, US / 1987, US), Philippe Pujol* (1975, FR) (online), Sara Sadik* (1994, FR).
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