KMSKA LATE - Anouk Kellner

A deconstructed organ: a breathing organism of sound and textile. An evocative sculpture. (Also enjoyable for children and families.)

Anouk Kellner’s Airchoir explores the boundaries between the organic and the mechanical, between human emotion, ritual, religion and technology. It is a quest for auditory and visual poetry, a reflection on our desire for connection in an increasingly technological world. At the same time, it refers to our religious past: it gives new meaning to the centuries-old organ and seeks out new sonic textures within the pipes.

Airchoir No. 2 functions autonomously as an installation, but performances also take place.

During the solo performances, Kellner manipulates the organ pipes with various materials, creating new sound textures. Through the use of water, paper or duct tape, the pipes begin to hum and, at other moments, to wail. In these performances, the poetry of Airchoir is further deepened. As a performer, Kellner acts as a ‘puppet master’ who keeps the organism alive, comforts it, or causes it to exhale its final breath.

Poetry of empathy and mortality is also embedded in the religious paintings of the KMSKA collection.