An exposition, not an exhibition takes place in seven arts organisations across the city of Hong Kong. In the first location, Spring Workshop, an ensemble of performers from the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HKNME) and their entire contemporary music repertoire has been specially arranged by Meyers for display in an experimental setting in an artwork entitled Litany and Rapture. At the other six arts organizations—Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong Arts Centre, M+, Para Site, soundpocket and Things that can happen—Meyers has commissioned new musical compositions/interventions that are performed by staff members at their desks in a new work called Hong Kong Solos. Taken together, these events epitomize Meyer’s experimentation with dissolving the delineation between art and music as he researches the foundations of the Kunsthalle for Music (see below).

REMAINING SHOW DATES

This week
Mar 22, Wed | 2–7pm
Mar 23, Thur | 10–3pm (South Island Cultural District Art Day) *Talk at 11am
Mar 24, Fri | 2–7pm
Mar 25, Sat | 2–7pm
Mar 26, Sun | 2–7pm

Next week
Mar 30, Thur | 2–7pm
Mar 31, Fri | 2–7pm
Apr 1, Sat | 2–7pm

Hong Kong Solos
By appointment only at multiple sites (see below)

The artwork entitled Hong Kong Solos features newly-commissioned solos from these six Hong Kong-based composers:

1. GayBird Leung, performed by Michelle Wong at Asia Art Archive

2. Steve Hui, performed by Samantha Kwok at Hong Kong Arts Centre 

3. Shane Aspegren, performed by Tom Morgan at M+

4. Vanissa Law, performed by Olivia Chow at Para Site 

5. Charles Kwong, performed by Alice Wong at soundpocket

6. Lam Lai, performed by Chantal Wong at Things that can happen 

As part of An exposition, not an exhibition, Meyers created a new work Hong Kong Solos by inviting six composers to create new commissions in close collaboration with staff members at at six non-profit arts organizations. In order to experience these intimate pieces devised for one performer and 1-4 audience members, potential listeners are invited to book visits. The work centers around the coming together of parties that don’t usually intersect—a composer and an art professional, an office and a performance—and presents the occasion for them to approach each other through the prism of a unique moment of music-making.

Hong Kong Solos are performed by appointment only. If you wish to book a visit, kindly complete the RSVP form. Registration is on a first-come-first-served basis and places are very limited. We will do our best to provide you a slot, but apologise in advance if we can’t meet your request.

March 23 is the perfect day to join us at Spring not only for SICD Day, but also for “Music and the Museum,” a discussion between composers and artists Ari Benjamin Meyers, Samson Young and Spring Workshop curator-at-large Christina Li, chaired by frieze deputy editor Amy Sherlock, on the evolving cultural contexts in which contemporary music is produced, performed and collected.

The event celebrates the launch of the newly-redesigned March issue of frieze, featuring a monograph on Young’s work, as well as Spring Workshop’s current exhibition by Meyers, An exposition, not an exhibition.

*This program is very full already, so seats will be allocated on a first-come-first-seated basis. If you miss a seat, you are welcome to join us standing.

An exposition, not an exhibition was developed during Ari Benjamin Meyers’ two residencies at Spring Workshop in the summer and fall of 2016, and stems from his ongoing research into the essence of live musical performance and the questions surrounding its protocols for audiences, performers and institutions.

The Kunsthalle for Music is commissioned by Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam) together with Spring Workshop (Hong Kong) and will make additional appearances at locations to be announced. An exposition, not an exhibition at Spring Workshop (March 2017) will unfold the Kunsthalle’s foundational themes, followed by a conference at Witte de With (May 2017) and punctuated by an inaugural take-over, featuring a series of new commissions also at Witte de With (January 2018).

www.kunsthalleformusic.org