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• Art and Life
• HGK Campus Basel Opening Day
  Basel
• 23 October 2014
• Art and Life is a newly commissioned piece on occasion of the the opening day of HGK Campus by the Institut Kunst HKG FHNW, situated at Helsinkistrasse 5 in the Dreispitz Halle is a 1,500 square meter industrial space The work embraces all the musical performers as contributors to the work and to her idea of a common social space. In a simple manner, the artist addresses here very complex questions, such as How do we conceive of professionalism? or, Is the street made for music? Street performance has an ancient history and occurs worldwide. The term used in English, to “busk”, or perform in a public space, was coined in the early 19th century, taken from the Spanish word buscar, to seek. In other words, to play music in the street means to look for: audience, money, hospitality, food…
  
  The work of Hannah Weinberger acts as a huge concert played for us which also has us as performers. The circulation of the musicians in the large Dreispitz Halle space intersects with that of the audience, letting us dance among the players. The artist explores here how “we” are not divided into performers and listeners but are all receptors of multiple relations. In being part of this particular concert we all become conscious of aesthetic, social and cultural relationships in continuous flux.
  
  
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