During the recent social distancing period, hearing emerged as the most suitable sense to articulate collaboration, transversality and circulation between generations. Sound potentiality became a tool for integration, a way to imagine and maintain a horizon of openness, to challenge one’s own receptivity and that of the institution. Technical skills and more abstract interests in a philosophy of listening met around the materiality of sound.

For its reopening on June 10, Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg is thrilled to present an open exhibition format that emerged from the recent period of questioning. The proposal expands around a central room and its multidiffusion sound system, a hip hop environment with an open mic booth and a headphone experiment room. These three environments are derived from the three recent residencies Fri Art hosted during the time it was closed to the public, namely of AMAK, Reymour and Bernhard Zitz. For H or the audience, fifteen artists with very different expertise and approaches on sound are invited to contribute to an evolving environment that allows collective production, the circulation of energies between artists, musicians, algorithmic programming, the audience and the surroundings of the Kunsthalle.

With AMAK, Betâ, Costanza Candeloro, ENCOR studio, feldermelder, Renée Green, Ivory A Ivy, Martina Lussi and Tim Shaw, Melanie Meystre, Lucas Monème, Pain, Reymour, Fiona Rody, Axelle Stiefel aka The Operator, Bernhard Zitz.

Nocturne every Friday evening, from 6 to 10pm:
The central sound installation will be activated by the artists in the exhibition and a series of guests. Free entrance.

Friday 12 June, 8-10pm
First activation by Bernhard Zitz

Next Nocturne:
19 June / 26 June / 3 July