Americas Greatest Hits Live Recording Performance #2

Mukul Patel and Fahim Amir
Americas Greatest Hits Live Recording Performance #2

As part of the concurrent exhibition at EXILE by artist duo kennardphillipps you are cordially invited to a perfomative live recording by London-based mathematician and composer Mukul Patel. Together with Vienna-based intellectual Fahim Amir this recording will form the second song of an upcoming album entitled Americas Greatest Hits.
In response to the record sleeve created by the artists, which lists all unarmed fatalities of US police shootings since 2015, Patel is producing an LP as a memorial to the victims. The initial track to the album provides the audible sound of the concurrent exhibition with the second song now being live recorded within the ongoing exhibition. Further tracks will be created with other collaborators at future exhibitions until the LP is complete. The final LP will later be released, with proceeds from the sale going to support the legal cases being brought by families bereaved through police violence.
The Live Recording will take place on Thursday, Nov 29, 7-9pm. The concurrent exhibition is on view until Dec 15.
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Mukul Patel explores pattern and process across disciplines and media. Together with Manu Luksch, he directs London-based Ambient Information Systems, where they have been developing investigative tools, responsive environments and participatory processes since 2001. Patel’s arts practice is strongly informed by the music of North India and 1960s conceptual practice. He composes extensively for contemporary film and dance (Isaac Julien, Bayerisches Staatsballet, Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon); his writing includes two film scripts voiced by Tilda Swinton (Faceless, 2006; Dreams Rewired, 2015) and a children’s book on mathematics (We’ve Got Your Number, 2013). Currently, he is consulting on the sound infrastructure of a supertall building by Santiago Calatrava, developing a book on significant scientific experiments, and investigating the ethical issues around AI and algorithmic management of human societies.
Fahim Amir is a Vienna-based philosopher, working at the intersections of nature, cultures and colonial historicities, performance and utopia, transcultural agency and urbanism. He is currently teaching at the Department of Experimental Design, Kunstuniversität Linz. Amir was curator of Live Art Festival 2013 »Zoo3ooo: Occupy Species« (Kampnagel Hamburg, 2013), »Salon Klimbim: Feeding Vegetarian Tigers – Entertaining Utopian Sensibilities« (Secession Vienna, 2014) and »Excess. Forum for Philosophy and Art« (Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, 2016). He co-edited »Transcultural Modernisms« (Sternberg Press, 2013), provided the afterword to the German translation of Donna Haraway’s »Companion Species Manifesto« (Merve, 2016) and recently published »Schwein und Zeit. Tiere, Politik, Revolte« (Nautilus, 2018).
kennardphillipps is a collaboration between Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps working since 2002 to produce art in response to the invasion of Iraq. Their practice has evolved to confront power and war across the globe and is made for the street, the gallery, the web as well as newspapers & magazines. The artists also lead workshops that develop peoples’ skills to help them express their thoughts on what’s happening in the world through visual means. The work is made as a critical tool that connects to international movements for social and political change.