Video | Concert | MaerzMusik 2022
Benjamin Patterson Invocations
– On, Of, For, With Ben Patterson
On the occasion of the opening the Benjamin Patterson retrospective at SAVVY Contemporary, artists, curators and companions of Patterson’s respond to the artist’s work in the form of performances, concerts, lectures and film screenings.
Programme
SAVVY Contemporary, together with the Patterson Estate and MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues, invites artists, curators, scholars and co-travellers to reflect and revive Patterson’s work of five decades. While being based on a multi-disciplinary curatorial approach that stems from Patterson’s worlds, this project wants to move beyond Fluxus, historically and artistically – a play on and with time, an archive in action.
Curated by: Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Kamila Metwaly and Berno Odo Polzer.
In collaboration with Barbro Patterson (Estate of Benjamin Patterson) and Elke Gruhn (Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
With
Benjamin Patterson, The String Archestra mit Giuseppe Bottiglieri, Daniele G. Daude, Anthony R. Green und Jessie Montgomery; Maria Marta Colusi, Lucrecia Dalt, Maulwerker mit Ariane Jeßulat, Christian Kesten, Tilmann Walzer und Steffi Weismann; George Lewis, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Linda-Philomène Tsoungui, Christopher Williams
Detailed Programme
Venue: SAVVY Contemporary
15:00
„I am glad you asked me this question” (introduction)
with Berno Odo Polzer and Kamila Metwaly
15:10
A Word (introduction)
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
15:20
Born in the State of FLUX/us lecture (lecture)
with Valerie Cassel Oliver
15:45
“enter open or closed space/…” (performance)
with Maulwerker
15:55
Callaloo - Ten Years Since (poetry interlude)
with Tsitsi Ella Jaji
16:10
Ben Patterson: An interplay (concert)
“Music for Violin and Cello” (Ben Patterson score, 1988)
with The String Archestra
16:20 - break -
16:45
Paper Pushing (poetry interlude)
with Tsitsi Ella Jaji
16:55
Variations for Double-Bass (performance)
with Christopher Williams
17:25
A Word (interlude)
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
17:35
Solo for Dancer (dance interlude)
Maria Colusi
17:50
A Very Lawful Dance A Very Lawful Dance (1962)
„enter open or closed space/ …“ (procession)
with Maulwerker
18:10 - break & shift to the Betonhalle -
Venue: Betonhalle at silent green
19:00
Variations over Paper Piece (performance)
with Linda-Philomène Tsoungui
19:45
Benjamin Patterson’s Spiritual Exercises (lecture)
with George Lewis
20:15
Ben Patterson: An interplay with the String Archestra (concert performances)
Music for Violin and Cello (Ben Patterson, score, 1988)
Bolero (Ben Patterson, score 1994)
with The String Archestra
20:50
Drip Music (dance interlude)
Maria Colusi
21:00 - break -
21:30
Performing works of Benjamin Patterson
Ants (1960)
A Letter To Margaret Leng Tan (2009)
Septet from Lemons (1961)
Die Cookie-Oper (2005)
Air Graffiti (2011)
with Maulwerker
22:10
Therapeutics (poetry interlude)
with Tsitsi Ella Jaji
22:15 - Break -
22:30
A Word (interlude)
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
22:40
A Simple Opera (Ben Patterson, score 1996/99) (performance)
with Maulwerker and guests
22:55
Child´s Play (interlude)
Tsitsi Ella Jaji
23:00
Paper Piece (Ben Patterson, score 1961) (performance)
with Maulwerker and guests
23:15
Thank you note by curators and team
23:30
Lucrecia Dalt (music performance)
Team
Jeßulat, Ariane
Maulwerker
Williams, Christopher A.
Daude, Daniele G.
Patterson, Benjamin
The String Archestra
George Lewis