H or the audience

During the recent social distancing period, hearing emerged as the most suitable sense to articulate collaboration, transversality and circulation between generations. Sound potentiality became a tool for integration, a way to imagine and maintain a horizon of openness, to challenge one’s own receptivity and that of the institution. Technical skills and more abstract interests in a philosophy of listening met around the materiality of sound. 

For its reopening on June 10, Friart Kunsthalle Fribourg is thrilled to present an open exhibition format that emerged from the recent period of questioning. The proposal expands around a central room and its multidiffusion sound system, a hip hop environment with an open mic booth and a headphone experiment room. These three environments are derived from the three recent residencies Friart hosted during the time it was closed to the public, namely of A.M.A.K., Reymour and Bernhard Zitz. For H or the audience, fifteen artists with very different expertise and approaches on sound are invited to contribute to an evolving environment that allows collective production, the circulation of energies between artists, musicians, algorithmic programming, the audience and the surroundings of the Kunsthalle.

Nocturne every Friday evening, from 18:00 to 22:00
The central sound installation will be activated by the artists in the exhibition and a series of guests.