Interview mit Channa Horwitz

Moments. Eine Geschichte der Performance in 10 Akten | Artist
Talk


Exhibition 08.03.2012 – 29.04.2012


Channa Horwitz’s conceptual series Sonakinatography comprises
drawings, performances and musical compositions. She includes
sound and movement, in other words temporal structures, in her
minimalist notational system. By means of a mathematical order
based on the sequence 1‒8, Horwitz extends the rigid structures
of seriality to infinite variation possibilities. The linear
logic, the monosyllabic rhythm of which can be modulated and
multiplied in an infinite variety of ways, Horwitz has also
repeatedly staged in concrete performative musical acts. Moments
shows two of these earlier realizations and a new interpretation,
as well as a selection of minimalist drawings on which these are
based. Horwitz’s work in the performance field, originating in a
strictly spatial system, has an aesthetic concept.


Short Biography
In her works, the North American performance and conceptual
artist Channa Horwitz (*1932 in Los Angeles, USA) has been
experimenting since the beginning of the 1960s with numbers,
rhythms, movements as well as spatial and temporal structures:
she records diagrams temporally, which may be read as musical
scores; movements are translated into colored schemes. The
compositions thus created are, to some extent, designed as
choreography or augmented in multimedia interpretations. As
performance artist, Horwitz works together, among others, with
Allan Kaprow. Horwitz’s minimalist-structural work, which could
be viewed at the beginning of 2010 at Solway-Jones Gallery (Los
Angeles), is currently experiencing international rediscovery and
re-evaluation as the work of one of the most important North
American artists of her generation.