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DISSECTING THE EAR - SECOND EDITION
November
25 – 12, 2009
You are kindly invited to
attend the opening of the exhibition on
Wednesday,
November 25 at 8
pm at Galerija Škuc.
Lecture
Brandon LaBelle:
Social music, Thursday, November 26
at 8 pm at Galerija Škuc.
A guided tour through
exhibition will take place on
Thursday, December 3 at 6 pm.
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 Fajfrić
Artists:
Brandon
LaBelle
Bojan Fajfrić
Jake de
Vos & Dyane Donck
Tao G.
Vrhovec Sambolec
Collaborators:
Nina Orešnik - voice
Primož Čučnik – translation of
John Cage's text in Slovenian
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 Fajfrić
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
Fajfrić,
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Klaas van
Gorkum & Iratxe Jaio, Rosa Barba & Jan
St. Werner
Supported by:
The
programme of Škuc Gallery is supported
by Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
and
Cultural Department of the City of
Ljubljana.
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