10.–12.09.2021: PlusX

Fr Sept 10 – Sun Sept 12, 2021, daily  3–7pm: Plus X archive broadcasts
Sun, Sept 12, 5pm: Listening-Session, simultaneously in Berlin and Munich + Release publication

@ Der Fahrende Raum, City green space on Karl-Marx-Ring 33, 81735 München

This Ruine with PlusX is one of the out of control invitations, one perhaps that finds the eternally expanding network of actual relationships in theoretically eternally expanding invitations. Ruine München invites to the Fahrender Raum, which in itself is also a continuum of its own, Ruine München invites PlusX to it. PlusX, a collective that invites others for performances for sound and texts, for theory or poetry, who then in turn invite others further. PlusX will play their whole archive for Ruine and then invite again for the publication release for a listening session (simultaneously in Munich and Berlin) to establish the connection between production and performance place, between the parts of the scattered collective. Because every branching can also be read as a connection, as a trace of a social relationship.

PlusX is an art space dedicated to sound, text, and performance that takes the form of a monthly show on Cashmere Radio and also publishes regularly via its website. PlusX invites contributors to explore forms of communal listening in projects where sound becomes a pulsating experience shared with others. These collaborative works are broadcast live and also become part of an archive of auditory art experiences. This sound-based output is complemented by written contributions on the PlusX website including theoretical texts, poems, and non-fictional outtakes. By encouraging participating artists to invite others, PlusX aims to cultivate an ever-expanding nexus of collaborators. PlusX also supports fellow anti-racist, feminist, and queer voices.

Also on view over the course of the three days Ruine München is simultaneously showing "Alexander Kluge scheiße wer war denn noch dabei", a collective montage by Gülbin Ünlü and Aribert von Ostrowski.

In friendly collaboration with Der Fahrende Raum, a mobile space for art and education.
Financially supported by Kulturreferat München and part of Various Others 2021.

photos: Constanza Meléndez















»At the beginning I said “like this” but I don’t really mean that this is like that, because I wrote the last piece to be read aloud, only once. It got published after, but even then, I made a note, which read: “This text is intended to be read aloud. It was first performed at Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin, on September 25 2020, during tbc., an event curated by Anastazja Moser and Jazmina Figueroa.” The piece was called Spring. In some ways, this is an addendum to that, in that, as I just said, a year has passed, and I am once again being asked to think about my year in work. Now this is different because it’s for broadcast. I’m not so nervous because I’m not doing this right now, I did it last week, in my studio. My first studio. The first place I ever had where I could go to work. I often say I’m working when I’m reading or watching things, movies or videos or talks, sometimes I listen to talks too, listening to a person’s spoken gestures, inflections.«

PlusX shared in a live-listening session a new audio-piece by the critic Olamiju Fajemisin (@olamiju). Titled Off-record, it is an auditory collage formed of an assemblage of readings relevant to the past year of the artist’s critical practice. It was conceived upon invitation by the curator Isabel Parkes (@_ppbm) for OUT NOW, an exhibition held in Uferhallen Berlin (@uferhallen) from the 10th – 13th of September in which PlusX participated as an artistic position. The piece aired lived on Cashmere Radio on September 12th at 17h. Listening sessions took place both at OUT NOW in Berlin as well as Fahrender Raum (@fahrender_raum) in Munich, where PlusX was invited by Ruine München (@ruine_münchen) to exhibit as part of Various Others Munich (@variousothersmunich). The live-listening session at Fahrender Raum was accompanied by a live-reading of Olamiju Fajemisin.You can listen to the audio-piece here.

14.5 x 29.7cm, 48 pages, bw laser print, stapled, languages are German and English

content: 1) a flyer cover delineated by scripts that serve as a portal depicting the traces of cooperation from the perspective of Ruine. 2) Brief descriptions regarding the contnt of the sound pieces from the PlusX archive, presented in Fahrender Raum, that sompose a core element of the exhibition. 3) Olamiju Fajemisin's observations on authorship, agency and intercontextuality that she places in relation to her position in the organisational fabric. 4) A hybrid text by Sebastian Brank, Donna Schons and Jan Kunkel in which the +X comrades enct a practice of collective writing. (source: "Anstelle eines Vorworts" in the publication)

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