Listening Session
February, 19th 2020
In his lecture and listening session, Kalas Liebfried will give insights into his methodology and artistic research for recent works like „Ambient for a Silent Forest“ (Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, 2019), „Corps-à-Corps feat. MC Nancy“ (Kunstverein Munich, 2018) and his sound work „Ports in Transition“ for the festival „Movement (1920-2020)“ (commissioned by the Onassis Foundation and the Goethe-Institute Athens, in cooperation with the Lenbachhaus Munich).
Kalas Liebfried’s interdisciplinary works focus on the installative connection of sculptures, objects, composed sound and its performative staging. They emerge from the appropriation, decoding and montage of found footage as a conceptual foundation. His examination of minimal and ambient music opens a path towards an artistic production, which considers environmental and background aesthetics as a dialectic method: the surroundings, the atmosphere – all that, what is considered as obvious and given – assumes a mediating role. Works which arise within this context own a dynamic relation to space: they refer to a specific site and to a poetic thinking space at the same time. In comparison, the time structure of ‘ambient’ is static and enables a de-temporalization. Translating and decoding these spatiotemporal structures into the interplay of diverse media enables the evolution of an ambient methodology. Its intention is to create a singular system, which generates new works, links and intensities through itself involving the recipients as an active and dynamic part.
Common to all transformations is that they require time and some sort of change of surroundings. Even if melting is scientifically categorized as a reversible change we use the term meltdown for malfunctions, system collapses and mental breakdowns. Maybe this is because in all of those cases there exists an inbuilt desire to repair the damage. The important question is; do we restore or do we improve?
Kalas Liebfried (born 1989 in Svishtov, Bulgaria) works and lives in Munich, Germany. He holds a degree in Philosophy from the LMU Munich, and studied Sculpture and Time-Based Media with Stephan Huber, Julian Rosefeldt and Alexandra Bircken at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Liebfried’s works have recently been exhibited at Pinakothek der Moderne, Nir Altman Gallery (solo), Haus der Kunst and Kunstverein Munich. In 2019 he received the Erwin und Gisela von Steiner-Foundation award and the Bavarian Culture Prize (Kulturpreis Bayern).
The event will take place on Wednesday, the 19th of February at ΎΛΗ[matter]HYLE at 20:00. Address Pireos Street 1, 2nd Floor #7.
http://www.kalasliebfried.com
The event is organized in collaboration with the Athens School of Fine Arts, and the Erasmus+ Research Project Creator Doctus
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