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ARTIST
TITLE
Amp Wall Monument Confrontation
FORMAT
2LP

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CATALOG #
SVS 018LP SVS 018LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/10/2023

Debut LP from upcoming artist Kalas Liebfried. Amp Wall Monument Confrontation critically engages with the imperialist history of the Otto von Bismarck Monument at the Deutsches Museum in Munich by re-contextualizing it through sound and performance. For one day in June 2021, a sculpture made of 21 guitar amplifiers was installed in front of the monument, with seven electric guitars connected to it. Seven guitarists performed a four-hour drone composition. Sides A and B comprise arrangements of the sound material recorded on site, taking up the structure of the score. Sides C and D feature interpretations of the same material by Lamin Fofana, Sarah Badr aka FRKTL, Elsa M'bala, Cedrik Fermont, and Jay Glass Dubs. The double LP is accompanied by a booklet with the original score and an essay by the Australian art historian Damian Lentini (curator, Haus der Kunst, Munich), which proposes further perspectives to a critical engagement with German colonial history and current polyphonic postcolonial discourses.