Featured artists

Tarek Atoui Ban Lei Rudy Decelière Emilie Ding + Alizée Lenox Agnès Geoffray Kim Gordon Olga Kokcharova Christina Kubisch Ari Benjamin Meyers Max Neuhaus Susan Philipsz Benoît Renaudin Anne Rochat + Jessica Aszodi, Laurent Bruttin, Contrechamps, Billy Demiguel, Ariel Garcia, Olga Kokcharova, Francisco Meirino, Serge Teuscher Roman Signer + Antoine Françoise Naama Tsabar
Curator: Olivier Kaeser

Organisation and production: Arta Sperto
Arta Sperto curates, organises and provides transdisciplinary artistic assignments. Just after two editions of Dance First Assume Later on (2020 and 2022), which explores the meeting ground between dance, overall performance and the visible arts, Arta Sperto presents KorSonoR, a new biennial pageant dedicated to sound and visual arts.
Geneva is a town wherever audio shines, many thanks to its many orchestras, ensembles, concert halls, festivals and universities, some of whom stand out for their experimental, cross-disciplinary tactic and openness to collaboration. It is also home to a single of the scarce long-lasting functions in the general public place by previous American musician and composer Max Neuhaus (1939–2009), who arrived up with the concept of audio set up in the 1960s. His occupation, which blends audio and audio art, motivated KorSonoR, and the existence of his perform in Geneva and in the exhibition generates a connection between the intercontinental heritage of sound art and Geneva’s art scene.
KorSonoR explores the resonances amongst audio and visual arts via exhibitions, installations, in situ performs, stay performances, movies and cross-disciplinary collaborations. The project aims to experiment with seem and fully grasp how it is inherent in the human entire body and in existence, no matter if we method it from a sensitive, cultural, social, spatial, urban or environmental standpoint.
KorSonoR will feature significant inventive figures, like Christina Kubisch with her Electrical Walks by way of Geneva Susan Philipsz with a Radiohead-motivated sound work positioned under a bridge across the Rhône Ari Benjamin Meyers with a stay performance based on a climate manifesto and backed by an electrifying musical composition Naama Tsabar with an installation that makes use of audio tools as sculptural product and which is activated by politically-connotated performances or Kim Gordon whose film transposes her guitar taking part in from the concert phase to a car or truck scrapyard—the twilight setting of a suffocating world—which she magnifies by way of a sensitive performance.
KorSonoR will also function performs by a amount of Swiss artists: Anne Rochat with an immersive set up based mostly on heartbeats—her individual and people of visitors—which are captured, transformed and broadcast, that includes guest musicians Rudy Decelière’s sculpture made up of hundreds of beech leaves that are established in motion and sound by an digital product Benoît Renaudin’s installation with which visitors can compose appears and drawings on a metallic disc making use of a laser or Olga Kokcharova’s audio portrait of a theatre building, offering an authentic perception of the two architecture and a cultural hotspot.
KorSonoR will be unfold throughout concert venues, performing arts laboratories, museums, theatres, opera houses and community spaces in Geneva.
Programme

September 28–October 22: exhibition with Ban Lei, Rudy Decelière, Kim Gordon, Christina Kubisch, Max Neuhaus, Susan Philipsz, Anne Rochat, Benoît Renaudin, Naama Tsabar

September 28–30: Naama Tsabar, Barricades (Ruptures)

September 28–October 1: Ban Lei, 153 returning birds

September 29: Ari Benjamin Meyers, Forecast (LX23)

September 29–October 1: seem performances in Anne Rochat’s immersive installation In Pulse by Jessica Aszodi, Francisco Meirino, Serge Teuscher, Laurent Bruttin, Billy Demiguel, Contrechamps, Olga Kokcharova, Ariel Garcia

October 1–8: Olga Kokcharova, Retours Loge

Oct 2: Roman Signer + Antoine Françoise, Restenfilme

October 6: listening session of LPs activeRat Asi Foeker + Raoul Doré, accel./cresc Magda Drozd + Nicola Genovese, Viscera DJ established by Laurent Schmid

October 15: Agnès Geoffray, Fléau

Oct 19: Tarek Atoui, efficiency

Oct 20: Emilie Ding + Alizée Lenox, The Monument is Listening

October 22: Benoît Renaudin, LASER