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Ari Benjamin Meyers – Always Rehearsing
04/07/24 – 20/10/24
In summer, the artist, composer, conductor and musician Ari Benjamin Meyers will be a guest at the Kunsthalle Mainz. Ari Benjamin Meyers‘ artistic excellence lies in his radical way of thinking music and art together. His work stems from his long-standing interest in thinking about composing, rehearsing, and making music beyond the concert stage and in exploring these practices in other spaces, such as exhibition spaces, political institutions and especially public spaces. Meyers uses the phrase „rehearsing the future“ to describe the creative power and the potential of community building through composition, rehearsal and music-making. Always Reahearsing includes newly created, rearranged as well as existing works which can be seen and heard in the exhibitions spaces of the Kunsthalle Mainz. With The Notional Anthem, No. 1: Der Zollhafen Chor, a completely new series of works by the artist, the Kunsthalle leaves its building. It echoes into the city as Ari Benjamin Meyers forms a choir with visitors, staff, and the Kunsthalle’s direct neighbours – the various residents and users of the Zollhafen area. Together they create a new work.