Stephan Blumenschein’s artistic practice revolves around thinks through spaces and relations - physical and imaginary: rooms in buildings, scale, movement and atmospheres; ideology, discourses, institutions and fantasies.
An ongoing series which, as the title already suggests, is a gathering to listen to a record together. For each occasion a person invited to pick a record, which he/she/they want to share and is dear to them. These are non-public events and the group is brought about by 8 invitation cards whereby the person who picked the record invites one person only and the later invites another one. This person invites another etc. until all invitation cards are handed out.
These sessions happen each time in a different location (studios, apartments, art spaces, offices). The records are, if possible, purchased second hand, adding to/continuing the history of the physical record.
At GOLEB/Amsterdam (listening to Wiley’s “Treddin’ on thin ice”)
Private apartment in Amsterdam (listening to Philip Glass’ “Songs from Liquid Days”)
Guest apartment of PAKT/Amsterdam (listening to PJ Harvey’s “To bring you my love”)
Tirzah – “Devotion” picked by Flora Woudstra
Wiley – “Threddin’ on thin ice” picked by Jacob Dwyer
Philip Glass – “Liquid Days” picked by Becket Mingwen
Alice Coltrane – “Journey in Satchidananda” picked by Yolande van der Heide
Mort Garson – “Plantasia” picked by Kroot Jurak
Coil – “The Ape of Naples” picked by Mirko Lazovic
PJ Harvey – “To Bring You My Love” picked by Baha Görkem Yalim
The Upsetters - “Return of the Super Ape” picked by Janine Armin
Shirley and Dolly Collins - “Love, Death and the Lady” picked by Seamus Cater
Smokey - “Best of” picked by Vita Buyvid
Chi Coltrane - “Chi Coltrane” picked by Josephine van Balen
Ana Roxanne - “Because of a Flower” picked by Esther Frank