About
Parallel/Play is a live performance series based in Berlin that explores the dynamic relationship between preparation and spontaneity in visual art and music.
Artistic Inquiry
Parallel/Play places these modes side by side, revealing artistic creation as a spectrum rather than a binary. The series holds both discipline and risk in the same breath. It asks:
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What changes when we prepare — and what is lost or gained?
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How does improvisation differ from composition?
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Where does intuition meet structure?
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Can rehearsal and spontaneity coexist?
Why Visual Art & Music?
Both mediums unfold in time. Both rely on rhythm, texture, silence, and movement. By pairing one visual artist with one musician, Parallel/Play opens a space of cross-sensory dialogue — where sound becomes image and gesture becomes tone. Each encounter is its own temporary world.
The Audience
Audiences do not arrive to consume finished works. They arrive to witness the process — hesitation, adjustment, repetition, breakthrough. The space is intimate and immersive, inviting each person to reflect on their own relationship with preparation and spontaneity, in art and in life.
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Formats
The project brings together visual artists and musicians in three interconnected formats, each inhabiting a different state of artistic creation — from the
slowly composed dialogue to unrehearsed encounter , and finally to the open, collective space where the two converge.
I. The Prepared Dialogue
A visual artist and a musician present a work developed together in advance. Through a slower process of exchange — conversations, sketches, rehearsals, revisions — they arrive at something that is not a fixed product, but a refined conversation. Structure and intentional form shape the encounter. The performance asks: what becomes possible when two artists take time with each other?
II. The Improvised Encounter
A second pairing meets without rehearsal. No fixed score. No predetermined outcome. This format foregrounds presence, risk, and deep listening. Sound becomes gesture; color becomes rhythm. The audience witnesses creation in real time — fragile, intuitive, and unrepeatable.
III. The Open Playground
The evening closes with an open invitation — to participating artists, musicians, and audience members alike. The boundary between performer and witness dissolves. What began as a curated dialogue becomes a shared space of experimentation, informed by everything that has already unfolded.
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Meet the Curators
Riikka and Lavia have been brought together by their love for visual arts and music, they want to create a space for genuine creative dialogue across disciplines, and an open invitation to explore what becomes possible when artists and musicians truly listen to one another.
