BERLIN.- Sculptor Raimund Kummer and composer Daniel Ott introduce their project 5-5-5-5 cut, conceived for the Pariser Platz venue. Following the dialogue between Luc Tuymans and Edith Clever in autumn 2023, this is the second instalment in the Akademie der Künste exhibition series, in which Akademie members from different artistic disciplines come together to develop a joint project.

The underlying spatial concept is an intervention in the 5 historical exhibition rooms at Pariser Platz, implementing a central axis through all the rooms – cut. Raimund Kummer uses the space for a vivid interplay of 5 sculptural fragments, in which Daniel Ott’s site-specific composition is performed by up to 5 instrumentalists over a period of 5 weeks, for at least 5 hours a day. His composition uses musical cuts as a principle and responds to a jointly produced soundtrack that makes walking audible as a recurring sound. This experiment of spatial intervention, musical composition, and the choreography of both entices visitors to discover spatial and auditory encounters with the musicians within the space.

With: Jone Bolibar Núñez (clarinet), Jana De Troyer + Ruth Velten (saxophones), Rike Huy + Paul Hübner (trumpets), Josa Gerhard (viola), Adam Goodwin (double bass), Max Andrzejewski + Mikołaj Rytowski (drums)

A joint project of the Visual Arts and Music Sections with the Akademie der Künste’s Studio for Electroacoustic Music

With the kind support of Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung (Swiss arts council), and the Gesellschaft der Freunde der Akademie der Künste (Society of Friends)