05/04/2018
Ben Frost & MFO
Spatialized deconstructions of material from the 2016 "The Centre Cannot Hold" recording sessions form the backbone of Frost’s work for Hexadome. The piece is a document of an event, of a room, and of the composer within it. It is music that is not fully controlled and appears to be anxiously, often violently competing against its creator.
Born in 1980 in Melbourne, Australia, Ben Frost relocated to Reykjavík, Iceland, in 2005. Working closely with friends Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly, he formed the Bedroom Community record label/collective. Frost’s work juxtaposes music, rhythm, technology, the body, performance, text, art, beauty, and violence, combining and coalescing the roles and procedures of various artistic disciplines.
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Marcel Weber is a visual artist who works with imagery, light and space. He has been directing and producing audiovisual performances, stage designs, video works and installations since 2001. Weber's performances are concerned with memory and perception, identity formation and dissolution – particularly in the context of possible futures and their underlying mythologies. His work is marked by a well-defined and distinctive aesthetic, using images that both resonate with and form a relationship to sound. Applying to visuals the musical language, with its ability to shape emotional worlds, an ethereal quality emerges, brought to life by his passion for experimental narratives.
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LIVE PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE Ben Frost & MFO
Wednesday, April 18th: 20:00 - 20:45
Wednesday, April 18th: 21:00 - 21:45
INSTALLATION SCHEDULE
Saturday, April 21st: 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday, April 21st: 10:00 - 19:00
Installation Tickets available at the entrance of Martin-Gropius-Bau on the day of each showing.
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Funded by:
German Federal Cultural Foundation, Senate Department of Culture and Europe.
Presented in collaboration with:
Pfadfinderei, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Norient, IRCAM, Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
A guest at Gropius Bau.
Official Partner:
Audi City Berlin.
Supported by:
System 180, Meyer Sound, Resolume, Squareball, Krombacher, Schweppes.
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Ben Frost & MFO
Spatialized deconstructions of material from the 2016 "The Centre Cannot Hold" recording sessions form the backbone of Frost’s work for Hexadome.
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