Instrument was developed on residency at Bauhaus Foundation in 2021 and exhibited in Gropius Haus, Nov 2021 – Jun 2022, with works by Charlotte Posenenske / Curated by Alexis Lowry (Dia Art Foundation).
“Instrument is a tool for navigating in fictional, collective spaces. The sensitive sound sculpture is a means to explore a complex infrastructure that includes touch and affect.
The Instrument also serves as an experiential medium to find out what the use or biography of their work might mean for an individual group. Is it an independent organism that gradually unfolds during the performance? Or does the Instrument serve as an exploration of collective boundaries and transitions? For Rita Evans, this use is a collective action that visualizes the Instrument and makes it tangible.
The documentation shows the workshop that took place and on which the work is based. Visitors hear how the object sounds. The drawings, plans, room scores and objects shed a light on process components that emerged from encounters with the sound sculpture.”
Curator: Dr Florian Strob, Bauhaus Foundation Residency Director.
In cooperation with Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK), Leipzig
Dr Florian Strob, Director Bauhaus Foundation Residency: “Artist Rita Evans has been working at Haus Muche since September, experimenting withmaterials and forms and exploring what sound they produce when played and moved by a group or audience from the public. She will be in contact with the people of Dessau to discover new ways of playing her sculptures. The work Rita Evans developed for Haus Gropius, creates a connection between the body of an individual and the space of other bodies, a collective of people that includes the sculpture and its materials. A film shows documentation of previous workshops in which the instrument was played by individuals. In combination with the drawings, plans and spatial scores created in this context, visitors can experience the exhibition space as a sensual infrastructure.”
Residency Studio, Masterhouse Muche:
Rita Evans, Bauhaus Resident 2021, Masterhouse Georg Muche, 21.10.2021. Image showing work in progress in the Masterhouse studio. Photo Yvonne Tenschert, Bauhaus Dessau FoundationRita Evans, Bauhaus Resident 2021, Masterhouse Georg Muche, 21.10.2021. Image showing work in relation to research on Hannes Meyer’s designs for social and ecological housing infrastructures. Photo Yvonne Tenschert, Bauhaus Dessau FoundationRita Evans, Bauhaus Resident 2021, Masterhouse Georg Muche, 21.10.2021. Photo Yvonne Tenschert, Bauhaus Dessau FoundationEvans holds ‘Instrument on a Plane of Prism Glass’, 2021, colour pencil on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm. Photo from Bauhaus residency studio of Masterhouse Georg Muche. Credit: Yvonne Tenschert. Courtesy of Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau.Rita Evans, Bauhaus Resident 2021, Masterhouse Georg Muche, 21.10.2021. Photo Yvonne Tenschert, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
