Topografije zvoka, CHRISTINA KUBISCH, OBLAK
19.–27. 9. 2019, Galerija Škuc
Odprtje razstave v četrtek, 19. 9., ob 20.00.
“Letošnja, tretja edicija mednarodnega simpozijskega festivala Topografije zvoka postavlja v ospredje prehajanja. S tem mislimo vezi, ki potekajo brez določene smeri, historično, a ne kronološko linearno, nikakor geografsko določeno, brez tehničnih ali tehnoloških bohotenj, temveč skozi zvočnost samo. Te vezi je mogoče razumeti v obliki kolektivov, ki se nikdar niso zbrali, saj za to ni bilo potrebe. S tem, ko niso bili kolektivi, tudi niso bili izključujoči. To so idiomatične povezave, bivanje v antičasovnosti in antiprostorskosti. Prepustna intertekstualnost.”
za Topografije zvoka
Nina Dragičević
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V sklopu mednarodnega simpozijskega festivala Topografije zvoka bo v prostorih Galerije Škuc svoje delo Oblak predstavila nemška skladateljica in umetnica Christina Kubisch.
Delo Oblak (2011/2017) je zvočna skulptura, izdelana na kraju samem z več sto metrov rdeče električne žice. Gre za večkanalno kompozicijo, ki jo obiskovalci poslušajo z uporabo prilagojenih slušalk, s katerimi raziskujejo skriti akustični svet zvočnih kabelskih struktur. V vsakem kanalu je različna kompozicija elektromagnetnih valov, poslušalci pa jih lahko zmiksajo po svoje: te naprave, ki jih je razvila umetnica, vsebujejo magnetne tuljave, ki sprejemajo magnetna polja, ki krožijo v kabelskih zankah in jih naredijo slišne. Ko se obiskovalci gibljejo po instalaciji, kaotični električni napeljavi, oblaku, ki visi v galeriji, sprožijo zvoke kablov in jih spajajo v neomejeno število novih kombinacij.
Oblak ni zgolj didaktična vizualizacija fizikalnega principa indukcije. Nasprotno, ta proces jemlje za izhodišče. Delo stimulira glasbene kompozicije v živo. Avtorica pravi: “Osnovna ideja teh zvočnih prostorov je omogočiti gledalcu/ poslušalcu dostop do njegovih individualnih prostorov časa in gibanja. Glasbeno sekvenco lahko skozi poslušalčevo gibanje doživimo v vedno novih različicah. Obiskovalec postane ‘mešalec’, ki lahko individualno sestavi svojo skladbo in sam določi časovni okvir. Vsako gibanje, še tako rahel obrat glave, ima za posledico različne sekvence tonov.”
Kubisch je serijo Oblak začela leta 2011, še preden je izraz postal modna beseda za način shranjevanja podatkov. Tudi njene participativne zvočne skulpture se navezujejo na teme shranjevanja in dostopa, a to počnejo na teatralen način, obiskovalce spreminjajo v aktivne poslušalce, ki si nenehno prizadevajo, da bi z gibanjem, ležanjem na tleh ali zgolj s preprostim obračanjem glave priklicali in ustvarili nove zvočne impresije.
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Christina Kubisch (1948) je nemška skladateljica, pionirka zvočnih umetnosti, performativna umetnica, profesorica in flavtistka. Njeno delo izkazuje umetniško širino, ki jo lahko označimo kot ‘sinteza umetnosti’: odkrivanje akustičnega prostora in dimenzije časa v vizualni umetnosti na eni strani ter redefiniranje odnosov med materialom in obliko na drugi. Njene skladbe so večinoma elektroakustične, pisala pa je tudi za orkestre.
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Mednarodni simpozijski festival zvočne umetnosti Topografije zvoka je bil ustanovljen leta 2017, da bi izboljšal zastopanost ženskih umetnic znotraj prostora sodobne zvočne umetnosti. Poudarek festivala je na razlikah med spoloma, preko katerih razkriva specifične zgodovinske, politične, kulturne in biografske kontekste zvočnih umetniških del, kaže na družbeni položaj avtoric, pogoje njihovega dela in hkrati razkriva spolno neuravnotežene socialne realnosti. Festival se s kontekstualizacijo umetniških del skozi aktualne razprave (filozofija in sociologija zvoka ter glasbe) želi izogniti klasični koncertni obliki. Umetniška vodja Nina Dragičević je festival začela kot logično nadaljevanje svoje monografije Slavne neznane: Zvočne umetnice v konstrukciji družbe, ki je izšla leta 2016.
Festival poteka pod okriljem Društva ŠKUC.
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Povezava do kataloga Topografije zvoka 2019
Več informacij o festivalu: https://topografijezvoka.si/
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Kontakt Galerije Škuc:
Tia Čiček, strokovna sodelavka, tia.cicek@gmail.com, 051 807 849
Topographies of Sound, Christina Kubisch, Cloud – Škuc Gallery
From the 19th until the 27th of September 2019.
Exhibition opening will take place on Thursday, the 19th of September 2019 at 8 pm.
“Symposium-Festival spotlights the process of traversing. By that we mean ties that run without a certain direction, historically, but not in chronological or geographic orders, without any technical or technological exuberance, but through sonority alone. These ties can be understood in the form of collectives that never came together, as there was no need for that. By not being collectives, they were also not exclusive. These are idiomatic connections, existence in anti-temporality and antispatiality. Permeable intertextuality.”
for Topographies of Sound
Nina Dragičević
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As part of the International Symposium on Topography of Sound, the German composer and artist Christina Kubisch will present her work Cloud at the premises of the Škuc Gallery.
Cloud (2011/2017) is a sound sculpture made on site using a several hundred meters of red electrical cable. It is a multi-channel composition that visitors listen to by wearing customized magnetic headphones to explore the hidden acoustic world of sonic cable structures. Each channel has a different composition of electromagnetic waves, and listeners can mix them in their own way: these devices, developed by the artist, contain magnetic coils that receive magnetic fields circulating in cable loops and make them audible. As visitors move around the installation, around this chaotic electrical wiring, which is literally a cloud hanging in the gallery, they trigger the sounds of cables and mix them into an unlimited number of new combinations.
Cloud is not simply a didactic visualization of the physical principle of induction. On the contrary, it takes this process as a point of departure. The work stimulates live musical compositions, as the artist’s description of the work explains: “The basic idea of these sound spaces is to provide the viewer/listener access to his own individual spaces of time and motion. The musical sequences can be experienced in ever-new variations through the listener’s motion. The visitor becomes a ‘mixer’ who can put his piece together individually and determine the time frame for himself. Every movement, even a slight turn of the head, results in different sequences of tones”.
Kubisch started her series Clouds in 2011, before the term became a buzzword for a type of data storage. Uncannily, however, her participatory audio sculptures also relate to these topics of storage and access, yet they do so in a theatrical way, turning visitors into active listeners who are constantly seeking to retrieve and mix new sonic impressions by bending down, lying on the floor, or simply turning their heads.
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Christina Kubisch (1948) is a German composer, pioneer of sound art, performative artist, professor and flautist. Her work displays an artistic development which is often described as the “synthesis of arts”: the discovery of acoustic space and the dimension of time in the visual arts on the one hand, and a redefinition of relationships between material and form on the other. Her compositions are mostly electroacoustic, but she has written for ensembles as well.
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The International Sound Arts Festival Topographies of Sound was created in 2017 to improve the representation of women artists in contemporary sound arts. The emphasis of the festival on gender difference reveals the specific historical, political, cultural and biographical contexts of sound artworks, points to the social positions of women authors and the conditions of their work, and at the same time, unveils the gender-unbalanced social realities. The festival seeks to avoid the classical concert form, mainly through the contextualisation of artworks through topical discussions, including the philosophy and sociology of sound and music. Artistic director Nina Dragičević launched the festival as a logical continuation of her monograph The Famous Unknown: Sound Artists in the Construction of Society, published in 2016.
The festival is produced by ŠKUC Association.
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Link to the catalogue Topographies of Sound 2019
More information about the festival: https://topografijezvoka.si/
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Contact for Škuc Gallery:
Tia Čiček, expert associate, tia.cicek@gmail.com, 051 807 849
