HASSAN KHAN — Little Castles and Other Songs
Performance – Concert
Presented by YELLOW SOLO at R50
Ritterstrasse 50, 10969 Berlin
(Club room in the basement of the residential building)
June 27, Saturday
Door opens: 8:00 pm
Starts: 8:30 pm
Donation-based admission: 10,-
“Little Castles and Other Songs” is a live suite of five original songs interspersed with Khan’s earlier “The Infinite Hip-Hop Song Live!” and performed on a specially developed customized digital system. Written last year during a period of global turbulence and genocide, the songs attempt to channel the material conditions and emotional landscape shared across our trembling world.
HASSAN KHAN (b. 1975) is a renowned British-born Egyptian artist, musician, and writer based in Cairo and Berlin.
He has been making and performing adventurous music since his 90s debut in Cairo. With his first album tabla dubb he began developing sets that offer unique takes on genres, like New Shaabi in The Big One, Tarab Music in Taraban, structuralist arrangements in Live Ammunition! Music for Clapping, String Quartet and Live Electronics and hip-hop in The Infinite Hip-Hop Song Live!
Appearances include: D-CAF Festival, Cairo, Vega, Copenhagen; Sonic Shaman Festival, Taipei; Contact(less) Festival, Aquila; MaerzMusik Festival, Berlin; Ruhrtriennale, Essen; Intonal Festival, Malmö; Guggenheim, NYC; Portikus, Frankfurt and The Louvre, Paris.
He has composed for theater, dance, film and various ensembles.
Recent major solo exhibitions include Little Castles, Portikus, Frankfurt; Gestus, Cukrarna, Ljubljana; Blind Ambition a large survey at Centre Pompidou, Paris and The Keys to the Kingdom at Reina Sofia, Madrid.
His latest album is SUPERSTRUCTURE EP and his An Anthology of Published and Unpublished Writings is co-published by Stäedelschule and Koenig Books.
Khan is the winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale and a Professor of Fine Arts at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt.
Further informations:
INSTAGRAM
YOUTUBE
Special thanks to Maya Schweizer, Clemens von Wedemeyer and to the residents of Ritterstrasse 50.