Presented by YELLOW SOLO at HOPSCOTCH READING ROOM
Gerichtstrasse 45, 13347 Berlin-Wedding
May 6, Saturday
Doors open: 8 pm
Starts: 8:30 pm
Long time friends and collaborators Hassan Khan and André Vida present musical tracks and performances that have influenced and impacted them over the years. Listen to extraordinary select musical moments and get insights from these practitioners of the art of disagreement on each piece.
Hassan Khan (b.1975, London) is an artist, musician and writer living and working in Berlin and Cairo. In 2018, he was appointed Professor of Fine Arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. His work engages with familiar, shared conditions and undisclosed personal references to arrive at forms that suggest imagined communities, raise fundamental questions, channel conditions simmering under the surface, seduce and alienate, engage with expectations, pose mysteries as well as help to re-articulate our experiences with shifting structures of power. Hassan Khan was the winner of the Silver Lion of the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) and in 2022, a survey exhibition will be hosted by the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.. His works have been shown at Palacio de Cristal / Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Villa Medici, Rome; Venice Biennale; Beirut Art Center; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; Kodak Passageway, D-CAF, Cairo; Secession, Vienna; SALT, Istanbul; and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel. As a performing musician, his appearances include MAXXI L’Aquila, Aquila; The Louvre Auditorium, Paris; Ruhrtriennale, Essen; Intonal Festival, Malmö; Guggenheim, New York; and Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. Hassan Khan’s publications include An Anthology of Published and Unpublished Writings(2019), Twelve Clues (2016), The Agreement (2011) and Nine Lessons Learned from Sherif El Azma (2009).
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTIST
André Vida (b.1974, USA) is a Hungarian American saxophonist, composer, and lyricist living in Berlin. Vida has performed widely as a soloist and has collaborated with a diverse group of artists including Anthony Braxton, Kevin Blechdom, Tarek Atoui, Hildur Gudnadottir, Max Loderbauer, Rashad Becker, Nico Dockx, and Jamie Lidell. He has worked closely with Anri Sala on performances at the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Roman Amphitheatre in Arles (produced by the LUMA foundation), Frieze London and the Havanna Biennale. Vida has been commissioned by Hyper! at The Deichtorhallen, the Tri-Centric Foundation, Global Art Forum 7 and 10, the 8th Berlin Biennale, Eyebeam, and the European Sax Ensemble to create new performance pieces focused on the medium and materiality of scoring. These works include explorations of interactivity, animation, lighting, and clothing design as elements of a compositional system based on the physicality of performance. A three-volume set of his work from 1995 – 2011 was released on PAN, his piece for 41 saxophones, Minor Differences, was released on Entr’acte, and he has been featured in The Wire, TANK, Monopol, and Electronic Beat.