From July 11th to September 27th a new way of seeing, living and hearing Tabakalera will be open. An exhibition-tour will take the visitor through sound installations, sculptures, interactive audiovisual pieces… proposing a new way of discovering the building guided by the sound.
Edwin van der Heide
Twelve international and local artists present their projects at Tabakalera. Works created specifically for the exhibition enter into conversation with others that have been adapted to the building’s impressive spaces. All these artists in Sounds to Tabakalera work on sound experimentation and research, and the common element of their projects is the relation they establish between the visitors and the space that surround them.
Together with the artistic interventions, both the public and the building itself become also active agents in Sounds to Tabakalera. The artworks transform the perception of the space, and at the same time, many of the pieces get transformed thanks to the interaction with the visitors. Thus, these three elements are closely tied and they even become inter-dependents.
Other important caractheristic of Sounds to Tabakalera is that many of the spaces occupied by the exhibition-tour have never been used before for exhibition purposes. In addition to being an exhibition dedicated to sound art, Sounds to Tabakalera also invites us to get to know a building as emblematic as Tabakalera.
Scores of Silence is an attempt to represent a very important concept in sound language – silence represented through visual language. They are exercises in the disoccupation of the Flat Space through the Line (understood as a frontier, as a Continent). That’s why both the painted lines and those that are unmarked but remain present (real, one-dimensional lines without thickness) are so important, as they create different flat spaces, blank, empty, silent and at play with each other.
LPS-Tabakalera
In 1815 the scientist Nathaniel Bowditch described a way of creating visual patterns by using a sine wave. These waves can also produce audible tones and it is therefore possible to establish relationships between sound and image. In this sense, the work entitled LSP looks into the relationship between sound and the three-dimensional image through the use of digital sounds and laser projections. By combining these elements, the artist plays with the perception of space, creating sensory illusions that, through synaesthesia, allow the audience to change their perspective of space.
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