[spectre] Invitation: Grounded Outer Space People - Artist Residency / Music Ensemble - Opening this Thursday, 13th of October, in Galerie Wedding, Berlin.

[Anton Kats]

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You are cordially invited to the opening of »Grounded Outer Space People« by Anton Kats, a performative exhibition at Galerie Wedding, Berlin, marking the latest iteration of the nomadic band project of the same name.

»Grounded Outer Space People« is a music ensemble / artist residency investigating the relationship between transmigration, and music.
Artists in Residency: Anja Jadryschnikova, Khaled Kurbeh, Jared Meier-Klodt, Hani Mojtahedy, Aiko Okamoto, Ziggy Zeitgeist

You are cordially invited to the opening of »Grounded Outer Space People« by Anton Kats, a performative exhibition at Galerie Wedding, Berlin, marking the latest iteration of the nomadic band project of the same name.

»Grounded Outer Space People« is a music ensemble / artist residency investigating the relationship between transmigration, and music. Artists in Residency: Anja Jadryschnikova, Khaled Kurbeh, Jared Meier-Klodt, Hani Mojtahedy, Aiko Okamoto, Ziggy Zeitgeist

Operating in a temporary studio the group of artists in residency inhabits the exhibition space and expands this frame through ensemble rehearsals, concerts, presentations, performances, sound- and visual works, and workshops. Upscaled scores and space travel drawings extend over the gallery walls setting forth the launch of »Vostok 7« vinyl, a radio play conceived as a reenactment of the spaceship that has yet to be built. »Vostok 7« is the main sound piece in the exhibition. Situated on the Satelite Island in Kherson, Ukraine, the narrative and the drawings is an artistic study of the Vostok Program of Soviet Space Travel that began with Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight, Vostok 1 in 1961, and ended with Vostok 6 in 1963 with the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, the anti-hero of the exhibition. Listening, transmission, agency and collaboration are at the core of Kats work. Driven through the perceptual shift from the visual to the sonic, the exhibition space and the
studio operates a mobile sound system, a radio station, and a listening space full of musical instruments and sonic devices.

At a moment when most political concepts fail, the artist turns to the protagonists of Ukrainian cosmism such as Fedir Tetyanych, also drawing inspiration from musicians, improvisers, and artists such as Don Cherry and Mocki Cherry. This synthesis offers a dynamic starting point to explore and extend the concept of transmigration as a performative, artistic, and collective practice. Inviting multidisciplinary artists from different backgrounds to expand on the contemporary understanding of migration through an ephemeral music ensemble, »Grounded Outer Space People« propose a critical mapping from which the poetics of displacement might emerge.

Opening doors to the first iteration of the »Transmigration Library« the audience is invited to engage with an ever-changing collection of books curated through Kats' practice in sound, music, and politically engaged artistic practice. Playfully embracing the notion of reincarnation, taking one lifetime at a time, the project points towards the very concrete dimensions of a body, family, country, planet, history and the necessity to fully engage in practice from this vantage point.

Works by Anton Kats have been exhibited and performed in venues including SAVVY Contemporary, Serpentine Galleries, Tate Modern, Roskilde Festival, Kochi Muziris Biennale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and documenta14 in Athens and Kassel.

Grounded Outer Space People Opening Event 13th of October:

Transition as it happens:
6:00 - 6:45 pm DJ Kohlrabi - Deep Listening Set with Reading
6:45 - 7:00 pm Khaled Kurbeh - Synthesizer-Improvisation
7:00 - 7:10 pm Arrival. G.O.S.P. Poem - Hani Mojtahedi, Ziggy Zeitgeist, Jared Meier-Klodt and Anton Kats
7:10 - 7:30 pm Hani Mojtahedy - Mother Of O.
7:30 - 10:00 pm DJ Sets Ziggy Zeitgeist and Anton Kats with rhythmic interventions by Jared Meier-Klodt

The residency space is open between the 14th of October 2022 until the 19th of November 2022

Curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen

Within the framework of

Existing Otherwise | Anders Existieren 2021–22 at Galerie Wedding

Further Events

25.10.2022, 7 to 9 pm Interlude Grounded Outer Space People

26.10.2022 Radio Transmission: Notiz für die Welt danach with Aiko Okamoto

10.11.2022, 6 pm Same Page Different Corner with Anton Kats.

Ukrainian musicians meet up and »Vostok 7« listening session

18.11.2022, 5 pm Exhibition tour with Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Anton Kats

18.11.2022, 7 to 9 pm Volta. Final performance and concert Grounded Outer Space People

With the kind support of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Exhibition Remuneration Fund and Exhibition Fund for Municipal Galleries and Musicboard Berlin.

Press contact

Maja Smoszna, presse at galerieweddding.de

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