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6:30 PM-8:30 PM

Art und Weise: Free Improvisation

Artist Talk/Performance|Live sound and visuals with Richard Sides

Courtesy Richard Sides Courtesy Richard Sides

 Courtesy Richard Sides Courtesy Richard Sides

Free improvisation is a form of music that rejects musical structure and prefers spontaneity with a focus on the performer's intuition.

Art und Weise: Free Improvisation will engage with non-conventional structure and explore artistic material as something abstract. Utilizing fragments and discarded elements from his ongoing archives and informed by the ethos of free improvisation, Richard Sides will create a performance that draws from his artistic practice without a particular style. Taking the premise of a lecture, Sides will create, in real-time, sound with accompanying visuals that invites the audience into his creative process.

This Art und Weise event is a companion to Sides’ work Deep Listening in the exhibition, Four Dilations, currently on view at MoMA PS1.  

An audience Q&A will follow Sides’ performance. 

Richard Sides

Richard Sides (b. 1985, Rotherham, UK) is an artist and curator based in Berlin. His works explore contemporary ideas of meaning as an existential problem. These often manifest as environments that treat the exhibition as sites with their own obstructions and particularities to respond to. Recent solo and duo exhibitions include Four Dilations, MoMA PS1 (2025), New York; Elections, Shore Gallery, Vienna (2024); Slow Dance (4) with Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Stadtgalerie Bern (2023); Basic Vision, KOW, Berlin (2022); The Matrix, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin (2021); Dwelling, Kunstverein Braunschweig (2019), and PURE HATE, Liszt (2017). Richard has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Kunsthalle Zurich, Bonner Kunstverein, Kunsthaus Glarus, Kunstverein Hannover, Atonal Berlin, Fluentum Berlin and Swiss Institute, New York. He is co-director of The Wig in Berlin and runs Bus Editions since 2010.