Mathew Kneebone & Tom Aldrich
Piano Unplugged: Variation I
The exhibition opening was accompanied by a performance by Tom Aldrich on the piano.
Piano Unplugged: Variation I is a piano piece conceived by artist Mathew Kneebone and composed and performed by musician & composer Tom Aldrich.
The composition draws from Kneebone’s archive of musical improvisations performed and posted online by people experiencing a black- out. These brief melodies vary in modality and complexity, from children’s recitals to elaborate jazz riffs. Taken collectively, they convey a spontaneous form of cultural production born as a direct response to disruption caused by infrastructural failure. The score for the performance arranges these improvised samples according to interpretive compositional systems from Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Klavierstücke series, Henry Cowell’s New Musical Resources, and Tom Aldrich’s intuitive play.
Piano Unplugged: Variation I
You can find the score of the piece here.
https://www.ribrib.nl/downloads/Piano-Unplugged.pdf
You can listen to the recording of the performance here.
Lisa Ivory (2024–2025)
Paintings
We have presented two paintings by the British artist Lisa Ivory titled Tourist In Your Town (2023) and Love And Communication (2023) in the first part of Volume III.
In Part 2: Errors we will reveal two new paintings as part of a two-year-long exhibition of her works at Rib consisting of eight parts totalling about sixteen paintings by the end of 2025.
In the process a number of art historians with distinct specialisations in 18th and 19th century painting and unfamiliar with Ivory’s work will share their readings of her paintings.
Ivory’s paintings point to an evolving story with a seemingly clear narrative arc yet the stories do not easily yield to identifications and sympathies. They undermine our certainties about where we are in relation to what we are looking at. We are aware that showing only a small portion of her works in each exhibition might form a challenge to a contemporary visitor, however, we want to see if time-stretching her exhibition across such a relatively long period might better reveal her painterly progression and at the same time allow space for them to resonate with works by other artists.
They lead one into a painterly universe; a shadow world, a natural habitat for nudes, skeletons, and domesticated monsters.
gerlach en koop (2024–ongoing)
En om vier uur?
Slapen.
In Part 1: Beating Death With His Own Arm Rib began with re-staging a solo exhibition by the artist collective gerlach en koop titled Was machen Sie um zwei? Ich schlafe. (GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Germany, 2020). In this exhibition at the edge of sleep the collective displayed works by other artists. Over the course of the coming year, this solo exhibition will be restaged at Rib. One work, two, maybe three at a time. Not all works on view in Bremen will be on view in Rotterdam however and the very act of restaging the ones that are, will influence their presence.
Sleeping can neither be learnt nor mastered. Sleep is a fickle force that cannot be forced. Sleep is granted. All one can do is imitate a sleeping body as best one can. To restage the night before and the night before and the night before hoping that at some point posture and breathing will match and the copy will again be convincing enough to merge with the original … and that is when you fall.
Anticipating that the three-centimetre void in Rotterdam—reminiscent of the three centimetre void in Bremen—would dissolve into thin air soon, we asked Daniel Gustav Cramer to send the object that isn’t a work of art when seen in broad daylight. Details are disappearing from Alex Farrar’s suit,
a new addition to the exhibition. The silent abyss of Laurent Montaron’s Melancholia will be rebuilt to once again be the exhibition’s ‘onrust’. Emilio Prini’s confirmation to participate remains in suspension. These works together shape Om vier uur? Slapen.
—gerlach en koop
Find the exhibition text (pdf) for En om vier uur? Slapen by gerlach en koop, Lisa Ivory Paintings and Matthew Kneebone Piano Unplugged: Variation I here. https://www.ribrib.nl/downloads/RIB_exhibition_handout_2024_Vol3_Part2.pdf
[Ga1]A download link to the PDF with the score might be good
