Multisculpture

In a former freight station hall, I hung up a textile object and spontaneously project drawings and quotations onto it via tablet computer. At the same time, Marc Jenny is present with his performance experiment “Yes, don’t panic!“. We react to and influence one another with sound, image and text. „Yes, don’t panic!“ is a program Jenny developed, where freely extemporizing musicians can give one another playing instructions via tablet computers. That way, music emerges on the spot with a high risk factor, an intense tension and touching emotionality.

Musicians involved:
Paul Giger – violin
Michael Neff – trumpet
Roman Rutishauser – piano
Linda Vogel – harp
Peter Conradin Zumthor – drums and sounds
Flo Stoffner – guitar and effects
Stefan Baumann – cello and electronics
Raphael Loher – synthesizer, piano and toys
Marc Jenny – double bass and electronics

Marc Jenny
Die Halle

 
J’aime la nuit 
In our region, Lika Nüssli and Marc Jenny work first and foremost on pushing genre boundaries, facing cultural policy adversities, and yet not losing their sense of humour. No medium seems suspect to the illustrator, no note too strange for the bass player. When those two team up, one does not quite know whether a crazy jazz band or a radical art class performs. Monopolizing the room, they leave the alleged rules of their respective art behind: for once, Jenny does not provide a foundation, but works with a laboratory of drops, makes use of sponge, drip bottle, electronics and glasses. In the meantime, Nüssli works swiftly with the tablet computer, following the musician’s improvisation or completely autonomous, and projects the drawings onto sculpture-like shapes. It is written in the stars where this pulsating journey leads – but nobody has to be afraid.

Text: Johannes Stieger ffor the coming performance at Kunstmuseum during Museumsnacht on 9 September