exhibition: The Nature of Sound
2016
Ў gallery
Bazinato, Siarhiej Belavoki, Alesia Halota, Maria Garnak (Lithuania), Ihar Korzun, Tamara Sakalova, Lena Tankačova (Belarus,Lithuania), Tsolak Topchyan (Armenia), Viktorya Kharytonava.
Environmentalists Lana Semenas and Iryna Sukhij told about noise pollution and the sound samples (patterns) in nature which are destroyed by the anthropogenic load. Sound samples are a peculiar language of nature. They repeat at different levels of organization of the matter and one can explore the nature and a human being with their help. Ornithologist Volha Lukšyc showed bats at night and helped to hear their sounds, and the next morning she led the participants through the sparkling and singing forest. Singers and researchers of the Belarusian folklore Rusya and Julia Hibkoŭskaja directed the participants towards the search of their distinctive sound and taught to find a common sound that blurs the boundaries of the personal. Musicians of the Opera and Ballet Theatre said what sound meant for them, its volume, height, width, and showed that Telemann on the veranda of a village house sounds better than in any high-tech concert hall.
In those days, the artists talked about the sound in nature, about its rhythm, its ornament and function, listened to the bird language and the human language, stood on the bank of the lake and sang to the water, they saw and heard the Quartet, playing Mozart, met the sounds of life – those of the motorboating of a tractor, the mooing of cows, the roar of the engine of a jalopy on the street in the village of Lyntupy.
This is the life of sound.
Listen to this exhibition.
We are thankful to all who made it possible to dive into sounds:
Iryna Sukhij, Lana Semenas, Hanna Voŭk, Rusya, Julia Hibkoŭskaja, Aleh Jacyna, Diana Hančarenka, Aliaksandra Paciomina,Aliaksiej Afanasjeu, Volha Lukšyc, Vadzim Hlinnik, Lizaveta Zahuzava, Aliaksandra Das’ko, Kanstantyn Kozyraŭ, Jana Saŭčyk.
Curators: Valiancina Kisialiova, Hanna Chystasierdava, Sofiya Sadouskaya
Siarhiej Belavoki
Rain Bar
installation
The sound of the falling water accompanied artists throughout the plein-air. In the city we are used to looking at the rain outside the window, to see the rain in the gallery space is altogether impossible. With the help of the rhythm of black vertical lines, the artist created a diary of the rain. At the same time, this pattern is a barcode which one can scan with a phone or tablet and can listen to the recording of rain sounds.
To do that, please, download the app for iphone – QR Code Reader, for android – Barcode Scanner, then point your phone at one of the windows and click on the link. Enjoy!
Ihar Korzun
Touch the Sound!
installation
We are used to seeing sound as a wave on the monitor screen, but it looks more like ripples on water or growth rings on the cut surface of a tree. These objects show us the sound of time through the years. The annual cyclicity is also a wave and like sound, it stores information about different circumstances. Touching this texture we can feel the life of the tree, as the life of the sound, and realize the death of the tree, as the dying out of the sound.
Saw cut No. 1 – the linden from Muliavin Boulevard, 60 years old, felled in April 2016
Saw cut No. 2 – the sweet cherry tree from Ščadryn street, 57 years old, felled in spring 2015
Saw cut No. 3 – the ash tree from Balduk farmstead, 137 years old, felled in spring 2005
Ihar Korzun
Give birth to sound!
installation
How is the sound born and in what dimension does it live? Sound can be heard, but it can also be felt and even seen. The artist invites viewers to create and to feel the sound in different ways.
Maria Garnak
The Movement of Sound
video, 3 min.
When there are no sounds left around us we begin to hear ourselves: heartbeat, the crunch of the joints. Can we hear ourselves as unified with nature? The sound of pine trees comes from the belly, the sound of flowing water comes from veins, sounds of wind come from the surface of skin. This work explores the possibility of merging of the two natures: the human one and the earthly one and shows how the sound changes the perception and manipulates it.
Tsolak Topchyan
Untitled
video
How does sound affect nature? It is a part of nature, but sometimes human-made sounds disrupt the ecosystem. Breathing is the most natural and familiar sound. The video shows the situation of the minimal impact of a human sound on nature.
Bazinato
Audio-visual poetry
video, 14 min.
The work rethinks the nature of sound as a stable pattern that carries information. Using references to the primary sound poetry (this is a vast area of the archaic speech, various ritual chants, shamanic incantations) the audio information is modified and distorted. The voice slows down and almost stops to get into pre-language area – into breath, energy, emotions. This is an attempt of understanding the primitive and universal origins. Merging of sound and visual imagery let explore the farthest boundaries of the aesthetic.
Tamara Sakalova
Fence
sound installation
The fence depicted in the lower part of embroidery created by a patient of Puchavičy psychoneurological residential facility, underlines the fragility of the flowers that need protection from human presence, like the man himself, who made this work needs to be protected. The depicted flowers bring together the memories of the patient and those of the artist. This is an image of one of the forgotten and distant summer days spent at the cottage with a front garden full of flowers, which are not found in the flowerbeds anymore. The loud sound of the needle piercing the fabric is an additional fence from the world, a symbol of meditation and withdrawal by means of this monotonous activity. In addition, people with the peculiarities of perception hear sounds differently, more loudly and sharply. Perhaps this is the sound which the author of the embroidery heard when he was working on it.
Tamara Sakalova
Not named
sound installation
The text consists of questions and answers, and represents the cataloging of sounds and names of animals. This work is a reflection on the voice practices that were a part of the program of the plein-air, but also here you can see the appeal to the time of the creation of language. However, not everything can be named. Not every question can be answered.
Alena Tankačova
NotMYvoice (Mute Voice)
installation
White vellum is a visualization of the sound which is not present, the absence of sound is like the absence of a person and his/her voice. Sometimes muteness is not a physiological peculiarity, but the impossibility to sound at home.
The author of the work is Alena Tankačova, a Belarusian human rights activist, who was deprived of the right to stay in Belarus for 3 years. This situation of forced staying out of the country motivated her to this artistic statement. Near the farmstead, where the plein-air took place there is her silent village cottage.
Alesia Halota
Touch!
sculpture
How does the sound look like? The artist has created a primitive version of the documentation of sound and simultaneously expanded the possibilities of its perception. Simple sounds were given a tangible, tactile translation, which takes into account the length, volume, texture and depth of sound.
buzzing of a wasp
Om
crickets
a flap of the stick
cicadas
the creaking of a branch
singing Robin
buzzing of the generator
water boiling
Viktoryja Kharytonava
The Breath of the Lake
video
How to hear the sound of the morning mist? This is another story of the sound, the sound that is not audible by ear, but visible and felt. This video without sound, gives you the opportunity to imagine what could be that sound.
16:32:12
Thursday Aug 31 2023
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