Ten Years Alive opens in silence with a screening of 'Declarative Mode' — an hallucinatory late 1970s work by Paul Sharits for two overlapping 16mm film projectors. This will be followed by Daniel Blumberg — a composer and artist whose gripping stage presence intensifies his radical commitment to the visceral potential of sound, song and collaborative invention.
Presented in collaboration with Moderna Museet.
Daniel Blumberg is a London based composer and artist whose practice operates across songwriting, improvisation, drawing and sound.
He has released four solo albums on Mute - Liv (2014), Minus (2018), On&On (2020) and Gut (2023) - and composed scores for films including The Brutalist (dir. Brady Corbet, 2024), Sotto le Nuvole/Pompei: Below The Clouds (dir. Gianfranco Rosi, 2025) and The Testament of Ann Lee (dir. Mona Fastvold, 2025). In 2025 he was awarded an Academy Award and BAFTA for his score for The Brutalist.
Blumberg is also a visual artist who draws with silverpoint. His work has been exhibited at Balice Hertling Paris, Triennale di Milano, ICA London, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Deichtorhallen Hamburg and KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin.
Paul Jeffrey Sharits (1943–1993) was an American visual artist and avant-garde filmmaker widely regarded as one of the most radical and influential figures in post-World War II experimental cinema.
Sharits spent his life pushing the boundaries of film as a medium, stripping cinema down to its rawest elements—light, color, duration, perception, and materiality—and rebuilding it into something elemental, visceral, and deeply physical.
"With colors, therefore, in reciprocal relationships with each other within space and over time, Sharits creates new hues not actually present upon the film through their co-temporal blending and through after-image retention. It's a a complex phenomenon that yields sublime transitions across a spectral range, while the inner frame pulses with illusionistic movement as the hues change from warm to cool." – Anthony Bannon on 'Declarative Mode' (Buffalo Evening News)
