KOMFORT & SCHWIERIGKEITEN // Lis Schröder – Carte Blanche Fellowship

In the organizer's words:

The estate of gallery owner Inge Baecker, which is archived at ZADIK, contains a typewritten translation of an Italian text with corrections by hand. The author of the text is the composer and philosopher Giuseppe Chiari, an artist at the gallery. He deals with the question "What is music?". The media artist Lis Schröder takes Chiari's text from 1975 as the occasion for an artistic exploration. In an audiovisual installation, she deals with the questions addressed in the text: What prerequisites are needed, then and now, to become a musician or, more generally, an artist? What role does education play, what role does money play? For whom is music accessible, in which media, and what makes it special? Using an associative research technique, the artist contrasts Giuseppe Chiari's polemic of the "record cemetery" with the vitality of subcultures such as punk or hip-hop, which emerged at the same time as the text, researches the echoes of the DIY culture lived there in today's YouTube music production tutorials and links the question of the vitality of music in the age of streaming platforms and AI with her own personal music history.

The vernissage will take place on 23.04.2026 at 19:00 in the premises of ZADIK Im Mediapark 7. Participation is free of charge and access to the exhibition is barrier-free. ZADIK is looking forward to welcoming you.