THE SHAPE OF A SOUND - A SPACE OF INTIMACY, 2021
The work of the artists invited to participate in the program lies at the intersection between sound and a visual imaginary, thus exploring how artistic practice opens up new ways to hear and look at the world through alternative sensorial forms of knowledge. There are numbers of ‘worlds’ that exist without being seen but perceived through other senses, for example, hearing. The underwater life or under the earth’s crust, are two examples of the presence of a visual absence. The tectonic movement of the earth is still happening even if we can’t see them. Earthquakes, for example, are foreseen by an animal who hear the ultra soundwaves. So far, what we know about living forms on planet earth is because we have understood that there is a world existing outside the vision that our eyes might cover.
Enter Art Fair 2021
Curated by Irene Campolmi
New Sound Installations Commissions: Stine Deja, We’re okay, 2021; Marie Munk, AirCondition, 2021; Jens Settergren, GhostBlind Loading, 2021. (Photo credits: Julie Nymann).
THE SHAPE OF A SOUND - A SPACE OF INTIMACY, 2021
Performance program: Michele Rizzo, HIGHER xtn. 2015 (music by Lorenzo Senni), with performers Juan Pablo Cámara, Milena Weber, Antonia Steffens, Max Göran. Drawing from the work of theorists J. Kristeva, B. Groys, and M. Csikszentmihalyi, Rizzo considers how dance can facilitate flow, totality, and transcendence, acknowledging connections between dance and para-religious practices. Rizzo is interested in how the boundaries of the body become blurred, through the transformative and cathartic power of techno music. The use of recurring movements transform the group into one body while Lorenzo Senni´s hypnotic soundtrack intensifies. In challenging the self and the collective, HIGHER xtn. enhances the importance of nightclubs as gathering spaces for marginalized groups and a place to explore identity.
THE SHAPE OF A SOUND - A SPACE OF INTIMACY, 2021
Performance program: Fallon Mayanja, FEMENINE, with performer Alen Nsambu. Video credits Nicolas Pirus & Ndoho Ange
Feminine investigates new listening positions that question the traditional ways in which we process sound. Proposing a listening protocol, it challenges traditional hierarchies that operate in our performance. In doing so, the listeners are introduced to a space where they become more attentive to themselves, others, and the environment. Departing from Eastman´s original composition and Legacy Russell´s Glitch Feminism Manifesto, it breaks with traditional modes of perception by extending them further than the ears. Talks program: Jeppe Ugelvig, Independent curator and writer; Anna Franceschini, artist and writer; Roberta Tenconi, Curator, Hangar Bicocca, Milan; Henriette Bretton-Meyer, Curator, Kunsthal Charlottenborg; Paul O’Neill, Curator, Writer and Director, PUBLICS, Helsinki; Ulrikke Neergaard, Director, KØS Museum for Art in Public Space; Milena Høgsberg, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde; Moderated by: Irene Campolmi, Head Art Program, Enter Art Fair.
