The Singing Project: collective practice & singing sculpture
The Singing Project, 2020 - ongoing
What if an exhibition venue becomes a place of continuous song?
The Singing Project emerged as a singing sculpture and collective practice for the artist's solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Osnabrück in 2020. Since then, the project continues to evolve as an open field of research investigating the vast potential of our ability to sing.
While workshops form the foundation of the project, it has also taken shape as exhibitions and recorded sound pieces. Tracing inherited traditions, lost knowledge, and imagined abilities, it offers tools of singing that extend into lived experience through shared and immediate practice. Currently, The Singing Project is activated annually in June at the Gropius Bau in Berlin. Ayumi Paul offers a workshop as part of the project at ZHDK, which is open to all, with no prior musical training required.
Registration through email: magdalena.drozd@zhdk.ch
Ayumi Paul is an artist known for her practice of listening and engaging with nonlinear time. Trained as a classical violinist, her interdisciplinary work explores how sound functions as a primary medium through which all beings and elements in the world communicate. Her installations open up new forms of connection and reveal relational structures that are often concealed by dominant narratives.
Paul's installations have recently been exhibited at institutions such as the National Gallery Singapore (2018 and 2021), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2020), SMOMA (2021), Auditorium Parco della Musica (2022), haubrok foundation (2023), Gropius Bau (2022, 2023), Georg Kolbe Museum (2024), Lentos Kunstmuseum (2024), Künstlerhaus Dortmund (2025), and the Sharjah Biennale 16 (2025). In 2021, she was awarded a fellowship by the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome.
In 2022, she was an artist-in-residence at Gropius Bau in Berlin.
She currently lives and works in Kyoto and Athens.
http://ayumipaul.com/
Organized by Studio Zeitgenössische Musik
https://www.zhdk.ch/neuemusik