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Galerija Skuc : DISSECTING THE EAR - SECOND EDITION - 25 Nov 2009 to 11 Dec 2009 Current Exhibition |
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DISSECTING THE EAR - SECOND EDITION 25. 11. � 11. 12. 2009 Dissecting The Ear is a series of group exhibitions investigating and exploiting ambiguities of listening and hearing processes in different cultural contexts. The first edition took place in Sign Gallery - Groningen, The Netherlands in June 2007.* Concept: Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec & Bojan Fajfri� Artists: Brandon LaBelle Bojan Fajfric Jake de Vos & Dyane Donck Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec Collaborators: Nina Ore�nik - voice Primo� Cucnik � translation of John Cage text into Slovenian language While living in a predominantly visual/written culture, there are certain moments, in which audible communication becomes crucial. On one hand it is much faster than the procedure of written communication, and on another hand it lends itself largely to interpretation, since it is bound to vanish in time, if not recorded. DISSECTING THE EAR is a group exhibition investigating ambiguities of intentional listening and hearing processes in different cultural contexts. Conceptually, the exhibition consists of three layers: 1. Catalytic event - The Airplane story 2. Dissecting the phenomenon of intentional hearing - Audiovisual Lab 3. Synthesis - Artist projects As a part of the exhibition there will also be presentation of Errant Bodies Press - a publishing body, which has been publishing books and CDs on sound, auditory issues, spatial arts and design, and cultures of experimental performance and art since 1995. 1. Catalytic event - The Airplane story Just before takeoff, a man was nervously walking up and down an aisle, shouting something. When asked later, all the passengers said they heard him shout: �I have to go out!� While two air marshals said they heard him shout: �I have a bomb!� After the man ran out of the plane, he was shot dead. He didn�t have a bomb. This event is understood as a catalytic event for the whole exhibition, and functions as a trigger for the imagination and conceptualisation of the show. 2. Dissecting the phenomenon of intentional hearing - Audiovisual Lab Edited by Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec & Bojan Fajfric The laboratory consists of short peripheral psycho-acoustic audio and audiovisual tests, which represent a kind of deconstruction of listening and hearing processes. As if to surgically open the part between the inner ear and hearing center in the brain - the black box we still know so little about. 3. Synthesis - Artists' projects Brandon LaBelle - Reading Silence Jake de Vos & Dyane Donck - N20 Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec - Blow Up The three projects in the exhibition focus on use and significance of voice, each from a completely different perspective. Brandon LaBelle's Reading Silence juxtaposes concepts of silence as understood and investigated by John Cage and silence as experienced by a deaf person. The installation N20 by Jake de Vos & Dyane Donck humorously examine the electronic transformation of voice to achieve transformation of personality and scale, while Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec's installation Blow Up magnifies a traumatic event of a man being shot by the police on an airplane, solely on the basis of the interpretation of what he supposedly have said. * The participating artists in the first edition were: Bojan Fajfric, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Klaas van Gorkum & Iratxe Jaio, Rosa Barba & Jan St. Werner Lecture Brandon LaBelle: Social music, Thursday, November 26 at 8 pm at Galerija �kuc. A guided tour through exhibition will take place on Thursday, December 3 at 18.00. The programme of Galerija �kuc is supported by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and City Council Ljubljana-Cultural department. Support Mondriaan Stichting For further information contact Tev� Logar, artistic director of �kuc Gallery on + 386 51 31 09 57 or [email protected] |
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