hosted by Philippe Pirotte
Thursday, July 15, 7 am PST | 10 am EST | 4 pm CEST

The event will be live-streamed on YouTube.
Free to attend, RSVP for Zoom link.
Real-time captioning provided.

KADIST is hosting a monthly series of ‘catch-up’ sessions, with short saucy presentations by artists around the world—artists that we’ve been following but haven’t visited in a while. Each session is hosted by a different international curator, served up via Zoom, and streamed via YouTube. We’ll sit down with 20 artists over the course of the year, celebrating KADIST’s 20th anniversary.

Our second Ketchup Session features Marina Rosenfeld and Samson Young, two artists who combine sound, word, and silence to probe larger questions about our relationships to the intangible yet integral components of art and daily life. Rosenfeld and Young are both featured in Seeing Sound, an exhibition on view at KADIST San Francisco through July 24, 2021. Brief presentations about current work and ideas is followed by an informal dialogue moderated by curator Philippe Pirotte.

About

Marina Rosenfeld is New York-based composer and artist working across disciplines. Since the 1990s, when she mounted her first all-female electric-guitar ensembles under the name Sheer Frost Orchestra, her works have probed the intersections of experimental practices in sound with performance, installation, and sculpture, with solo presentations at institutions including the Park Avenue Armory, the Museum of Modern Art, the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Portikus Frankfurt, the Kitchen, and The Artist’s Institute, among others. Her work has been included in the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2002 and 2008), Montreal (2015), and PERFORMA (2009 and 2011) biennials, and international surveys including Every Time A Ear Di Soun (Documenta14), and Tasmania’s Dark Mofo in 2019. In the contemporary music field, she has created works for the Holland, Borealis, Wien Modern, Time:Spans, Maerz Musik, Vancouver, Pro Musica Nova, Donaueschingen, and Ultima festivals, among many others.

Born in Hong Kong in 1979, Samson Young received his BA in music, philosophy, and gender studies at the University of Sydney before obtaining an MPhil from the University of Hong Kong in 2007 and a Ph.D. in music composition from Princeton University, New Jersey, in 2013. His compositions, drawings, installations, radio broadcasts, and performances touch upon topics such as military conflict, identity, migration, and political frontiers past and present. Sound and its cultural politics are at the heart of a practice that interlays multiple narratives and references. Young has had solo exhibitions at Goethe-Institute, Hong Kong (2013); Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2015); and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2016). His Songs for Disaster Relief was presented at the Venice Biennale (2017). Select group exhibitions include Innovationist: 48HR Incident, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney (2015); Retrograde, Logan Center Gallery, University of Chicago (2016); Documenta, Athens, Greece, and Kassel, Germany (2017); and One Hand Clapping, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2018). Young was a recipient of the Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award in 2007, and the BMW Art Journey award in 2015. He lives and works in Hong Kong and maintains an active practice in classical music composition.

Philippe Pirotte (b.1972, Antwerp, BE) is Adjunct Senior Curator at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) and Professor Art History and Curatorial Studies at the Städelschule Frankfurt. Currently, Pirotte is a recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts fellowship to conduct research in preparation for a major exhibition project to be held at BAMPFA focusing on cultural and artistic developments in relation to the 1955 Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. He also serves on the Documenta-Commission (2019-2022) which selected ruangrupa as the artistic direction of documenta fifteen (2022). Pirotte held the position of rector of the Städelschule and director of Kunsthalle Portikus between 2014–2020. Prior to this, he co-founded the Antwerp contemporary art center objectif (1999), and from 2005-2011 he took on the directorship of Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland. Since 2013, Pirotte has been a KADIST advisor.

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