I had a theme and invited other artists to work with it. Painting, steel fabrication, glass, drawing, video: each person brought a way of making that I could not supply alone. Setting up the gallery became another kind of composition.

My van breaks down on tour. In the exhibition’s invented eighteenth century, the horse dies between Vienna and Linz and Mozart has to drag the keyboard through the mud. I wanted that physical inconvenience in the room with the history of the instrument.

MOZART ON THE ROAD carries this imagined touring life into the film. The exhibition video shows how the objects occupied the gallery.

With Sherine Anis, Andrew Dreyer, Florian Pilz, Ken Butler, Nicole Lattuca, Sander, J Ballard, Katharina Huber, Mik Quantius, Michael Jansen and Susan Mottel.

Fabrication: Sander fabricated the bicycle-style frames. Frank Merks designed the heavy steel structure with the strap. Portrait painting: Andrew Dreyer. Hybrid keyboard / guitar: designed and built by Ken Butler. Homage to memes: Florian Pilz (AudioPilz / Bad Gear). Illustration: J Ballard. Additional piece-by-piece titles and credits remain under review.