Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

Since 2016 the ISSHO NI ENSEMBLE brings together, in variable configuration, artists and scholars engaged in a long term research, aiming to explore the relationship between gesture and rhythm conceived as a structuring issue in the history and artistic experience of human societies. Calling into question certain separations established between artistic, scientific and clinical fields, its members wish to rethink the policies of their respective practices, where their issues converge and allow an unprecedented pooling of their means. On the occasion of the commission of the Festival Frankfurter Positionen 2017, three members of this assembly will cooperate with the Ensemble Modern: Xavier Le Roy, Tiziano Manca and Christophe Wavelet. Engaged in practices where the name of art is understood as an experimental and discursive approach, their collaboration in the context of the Issho Ni Ensemble was born out of converging affinities and challenges. It allows them to activate a procedure in which their respective practices and capabilities are shared in every step of the work process. Unlike an accepted scheme of contemporary production, where the claimed trans-disciplinarity actually complies with the old principle of a strict division of specialized competence, they aim to start from the issue at the heart of their practices: the solidarity of gesture and rhythm and the questions it raises in exhibition performance (premiere at Frankfurt LAB, January, 28, 2017).