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Julien Grossmann

Julien Grossmann

Across my practice, I explore different facets of globalization, addressing certain paradoxes that come along with the entanglement of cultural, technological and economic movements. I look at areas of overlap or frictions between cultural and corporate productions, or where particular cultural dynamics confront normative structures and systems. With a keen interest in music and the use of sound within a range of historical and contemporary contexts where it contributed to shaping social relations, my work consists primarily of sound installations, but encompasses a diversity of medias such as prints, video, audio works and publications, trying to regenerate perspectives and relationships.
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Research and listening sessions at the Berlin Phonogram Archive, for Four & one ways...
Research and listening sessions at the Berlin Phonogram Archive, for Four & one ways...
Casting of flutes in concrete in AIAV
Casting of flutes in concrete in AIAV
Music recording for Kokin (...) Slendro
Music recording for Kokin (...) Slendro
Steelpan burning with Mr. Kino, for Resource Curse
Steelpan burning with Mr. Kino, for Resource Curse

“Music and sound, however abstract, form immaterial testimonies of cultural and economic histories. Grossmann elaborates on this quality, drawing from audio archives from the early 20th century to the present in order to trace global connections and frictions. The audio fragments in his works resonate with histories of global trade, Western expansionism and resistance. Grossmann makes such connotations tangible and forges new associations by ingeniously reworking sounds, adapting musical instruments, and constructing his own speakers and players, using materials that are intimately entwined with the dynamics of globalisation as visual and symbolic counterparts. He alludes to oil and gold, the stuff central to the global economy that has fuelled territorial claims and conquests. Even the media from which Grossmann borrows his sounds – from early wax cylinders to today’s digital cloud – turn out to have shaped global relations in particular ways.” Introduction by Anke Bangma to the exhibition Customs & Claims at TENT, Rotterdam

Realisation of micrographs of audio recordings at the Protozoology Institute of Berlin
Realisation of micrographs of audio recordings at the Protozoology Institute of Berlin
Breakaway Songs, automation work with Chris Meighan at DordtYart
Breakaway Songs, automation work with Chris Meighan at DordtYart
Collection of NPK fertiliser bags for Growth Products
Collection of NPK fertiliser bags for Growth Products
First test print of Tropical Race (TR4) on Tyvek
First test print of Tropical Race (TR4) on Tyvek
Studio, preparation of Bulk
Studio, preparation of Bulk

Werk

Tropical Race (TR4)
Four & one ways to display an old Peruvian recording
The Big Auditors
The Fields of Recording
A Two Dimensional Geography of the Great Beyond
Breakaway Songs, exhibition Customs & Claims, TENT, Rotterdam
Breakaway Songs

Bio

Julien Grossmann (b. 1983 in Metz, France, lives in Rotterdam) explores global dynamics with a particular focus on the uses of music across history, drawing from audio archives from early wax cylinders to today’s digital cloud in order to trace global connections and frictions. His work has been exhibited at TENT, Rotterdam; AIAV, Yamaguchi, JP; DordtYart, Dordrecht, NL; 11th Dakar Biennale, Senegal; ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE; MUDAM, Luxembourg; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE; Stella Art Foundation, Moscow. Grossmann studied classical music at the National Music Conservatory of Metz, France, and holds a M.F.A. from the Dutch Art Institute, The Netherlands.



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