#ursula block

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John Cage. 33 1/3. 1969. Installation for Broken Music. daad Galerie, Berlin, 1988/1989. 

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

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Following this influential exhibition, Broken Music Vol. 2 looks at artists' engagement with the vinyl record over the past seven decades. The exhibition presents 700 records, arranged in ten chapters, to explore the development of the record as an artistic medium from the post-war period to the present and draws links with the fields of music in composition and improvisation, pop, punk and techno. The exhibition’s panorama is expanded by sound works from the National Gallery's extensive collection, including spacious sound installations and immersive media works. By highlighting the interactions between the record and the fields of music, performance and sound art, colours are transformed into sounds and sounds into pictures. The show features iconic covers by artists from Andy Warhol to Barbara Kruger as well as intensive sound installations by Christina Kubisch and Susan Philipsz; recorded performances and readings from Anne Imhof to Jimmie Durham make the records come alive for a contemporary audience.

Broken Music Vol. 2 - 70 Years of Records and Sound Works by Artists. Curated by Sven Beckstette and Ingrid Buschmann. Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. 17.12.2022 to 14.05.2023.

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Vinyl records – sound pressed onto a black plastic disk. Their history is an eventful one. From the beginning, its inherent contradiction was fascinating: a solid object which however contains disembodied sound. From very early on, artists realised the creative potential that records offer and turned them into artistic objects: they designed record sleeves for record labels and documented the sound of their compositions, performances, readings and installations in the grooves of the records. In doing so, they often viewed the acoustic content and the visual appearance of the records as one.

source: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/for-eyes-and-ears-ursula-block-interviewed/

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Ursula Block’s gelbe MUSIK April 27 - June 4, 2017

OSMOS Address 50 E 1st Street New York NY 10003

In 1981 gelbe MUSIK opened its doors at Schaperstr. 11 in Wilmersdorf, West-Berlin, with a show dedicated to graphic scores by contemporary avant-garde artists from Europe and the United States. Until 2014 Ursula Block programed gelbe MUSIK as a record store and gallery. It now lives on as the Broken Music Archive.

Ursula Block has hosted more than ninety shows featuring artists and composers such as Maryanne Amacher, John Cage, Henning Christiansen, Milan Knížák, Christina Kubisch, Nam June Paik, and Akio Suzuki. Throughout the 1980s she co-curated several influential exhibitions dedicated to artist’s records, among them Broken Music, with Michael Glasmeier, and Extended Play, with Christian Marclay. This exhibition at OSMOS entitled, Ursula Block’s gelbe MUSIK – 33 Years in Review, focuses on objects, records, and scores that are significant to Block and played a major role in the development of gelbe MUSIK. Last year an edition of this exhibition was installed at Mathew Gallery in Berlin, which is located down the street from gelbe MUSIK.

For more than 30 years gelbe MUSIK existed as a unique place for the intersection of art and music -- a record store and gallery where musicians, composers, visual artists and choreographers from all over the world could gather. Ideas were exchanged and friendships nurtured. Emphasizing the way small and independent art projects can evolve to support an international community, this project comes out of local and international alliances. Creating a musical loop, the exhibition was initiated by Fiona McGovern from Berlin, where OSMOS was founded 20 years ago, in collaboration with our neighbor, Justin Luke from Audio Visual Arts located down the street from OSMOS. In addition to the exhibition, there will be a listening session with Ursula Block and a special film screening on experimental music at the Goethe-Institut New York.

This exhibition is part of a year-long series that reflects on the 20 years OSMOS has been in existence since its founding in Berlin in 1997. OSMOS Address in New York is a project space for art gatherings and exhibitions in the East Village storefront that was once a saloon frequented by Emma Goldman and other radicals. In the 19th Century, the space in back was the printing office for their German language newspaper; it is now the editorial office for OSMOS Magazine and OSMOS Books.

Concurrent Programming: April 26, 2017 / 7pm – gelbe MUSIK Listening Session with Ursula Block Co-presented with the Goethe-Institut May 17, 2017 / 7pm – Experimental Music On Film Co-presented with the Goethe-Institut

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Milan Knizak on WFMU: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/09/blogpost-22.html