Workers in Song
'Workers in Song' is a collaboration between visual artist James Richards (b. 1983, UK) and composer Billy Bultheel (b. 1987, BE), who find one another through the expanded approach towards their discipline. Bringing together new music, archival film and performative text, the performance is haunted by histories of occult photography and spectral music as well as more quotidian pleasures such as internet hook-ups, fandom, and Franz Schubert’s 'Winterreise'. Conceived to be episodic in structure, compositions are reworked, videos are added or replaced, and new musicians are invited into the ensemble as it travels. 'Workers in Song' questions the boundaries between liveness and the prerecorded, between presence and absence, between ghosts and the archive.
Curator: Léon Kruijswijk
Curatorial Assistant: Nikolas Brummer
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststr. 69
10117 Berlin,
Mitte
Tel: +49 (0)30 243 45 90
Opening Hours:
Wednesday
11am–7pm
Friday–Monday
11am–7pm
Thursday
11am–9pm