OUTSIDE/INSIDE

Urban Sound and Separate Space

Concert Installation for String Orchestra and Pictures by RADIALSYSTEM V (Berlin) and the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Collaboration with the Ensemble Resonanz

AUSSEN/INNEN (OUTSIDE/INSIDE) is the first project to be staged in the frame of the newly founded »Art Lab«, which will move into the Hubertus-Wald-Forum once a year. From 24 to 30 June 2016 the »Art Lab« will turn into a place for experimentation at the interface between the visual and performing arts. Based on the Hamburger Kunsthalle’s involvement with innovative artistic approaches of various partners, the scope of activities and role of the institution museum are to be newly explored and staked out. This exploratory process will be launched with the joint production OUTSIDE/INSIDE by RADIALSYSTEM V Berlin and the Hamburger Kunsthalle in collaboration with the Ensemble Resonanz Hamburg. Under the direction of Folkert Uhde, one of the two artistic directors of RADIALSYSTEM V, the project OUTSIDE/INSIDE focuses on the positioning and anchoring of the Kunsthalle in the city. Ruptures in the external world – the urban conflict zone in the immediate environment of the museum – provide the raw material for an interdisciplinary performance featuring music, sound collages, installations and video art.

On the evenings of the performance, clips filmed in the area surrounding the Hamburger Kunsthalle this year in spring are projected onto the internal walls of the Hubertus-Wald-Forum. Musicians from the Ensemble Resonanz, first to be seen in the videos, suddenly are present in the performance space; others interact live with their visual avatars. Large-scale portraits of the musicians by the photographer Jim Rakete set a calm counterpoint of reflection, thus forming a third level. Initially, the audience is invited to adopt the entire space of the Hubertus-Wald-Forum in a similar way as it would at an exhibition. The evening then becomes more and more centred, the concentration densified. The performance ends in darkness, while the musicians position themselves around the audience. With this experimental set-up, the project ultimately raises the question of how one can come from the sensory overload of the OUTSIDE to arrive at a contemplative art experience of the INSIDE.