Conversation with Stan Douglas: Recombining History, Recombining Music

Podcast

The slide installation Deux Devises: Breath and Mime (1982-1983) by Stan Douglas from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof is currently featured in the exhibition entitled Magical Soup. Media Art from the Nationalgalerie Collection, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof and Loans.

The work’s soundtrack comprises two pieces of music: O ma belle rebelle by Charles Gonoud and Preachin’ Blues by Robert Johnson. The interpretation of music plays a central role in the usually multi-channel fictional-historical video installations and spatial settings created by the Canadian artist. A conversation about Ludwig van Beethoven and ragtime, Arnold Schönberg and Italian prog rock, as well as the revolutions in jazz by Albert Ayler and Miles Davis.

In English with German subtitles.