The Fairytale Recordings is an exhibition staging "magic recordings" achieved during an inaugural performance and made by a fairytale character who produces works which represent him at the same time.

During this performance, the operatic actress Katharina Schrade will put eight songs’ texts come from Saâdane Afif’s repertoire in eight vases commissioned to the Munich Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg. These texts have been written by Lili Reynaud Dewar, Ina Blom, Tacita Dean, Mick Peter, Tom Morton during earlier exhibitions and the titles allude to the original artworks : Ghost, Vice de Forme, Black Hole… The musical creation has been commissioned to the composer and the artist Ari Benjamin Meyers who produced the strange musical scores of these spoken-sung declamations.

The vases lie on bases around a circular stage. Each bears a different figurine on its lid, depicting Schrade in a pose which evokes the baroque oratorio. All recording information of each work - the title of the song, the date and a reference number - are written on the edge of each lids. At the beginning of each act, an assistant takes the lid out of one of the vases to put in the actress’s voice. Katharina Schrade goes up the stage. Each lid bears a different figurine on its lid depicting the operatic actress in the pose that she will begin each recitation with. She starts singing and goes to the vase slowly. In a final breath she puts in the last verses of the text. The assistant immediately seals the lid to keep these alive verses in to eternity. Thus the ended works will lie on their bases during the exhibition.

As opening credits, a framed wall poster announces the event.