Jutta Koether and Kim Gordon performing at the Moderna Museet on Friday night.
For me, performance art tends to run to the extremes. Either it’s really and truly bad and I hate it or it’s amazing and I am energized. Luckily for me, Friday night I saw the latter type of performance. We went to an opening for a show featuring the paintings of German artist Jutta Koether at the Moderna Museet or Modern Museum.
Kim reading poetry during the performance.
Jutta is an all-around creative type and is also an art and rock critic, musician and writer. For the opening, she played keyboards while Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth played guitar and read poems by Tony Conrad. Maybe that sounds like a pretty Sunday afternoon at the museum kind of combination. But this was definitely anything but that.
Jutta on the keyboards.
The two often collaborate on performance projects such as this one and the result is jarring, electric and powerful. Kim was playing the guitar with a piece of metal, using it like a weapon to make her way through the crowd. Jutta also had a camera mounted on a pole that she would wave over the audience and the images were projected large on a wall. My best description of the music would be avant-garde punk noise. But somehow, it all came together and made for such a great show that we never made it in to see the paintings.
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So sad I missed it! If you want to go back to see the paintings-call!
my K is sticking:) if you want to go bacK:)
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