5 December 2006 – 10 January 2007
Included in OPEN / CLOSE with Giovanni Morbin and Simone Menegoi
O’Artoteca, Milano
Audio installation with four channels in a specially modified room of O’Artoteca, separated from the gallery, rendered completely dark with a ceiling height of 160 cm. to make it impossible to stand upright and a carpeted floor to encourage sitting or lying prone. Visitors remove their shoes at the threshold (photo center) and enter alone. Random sounds from human activity in the O’Artoteca courtyard are recorded, then played back and re-recorded, using techniques inspired by Alvin Lucier’s open reel tape work, distorting the original sounds into their resonant harmonics, and played back in the dark in a constantly random mix.
Included in OPEN / CLOSE, exhibition sponsored by O’A.I.R. artist residency program, O’Artoteca. Participants in this edition of the residency and exhibition include artist Giovanni Morbin and curator Simone Menegoi.
Produced by Sara Serighelli and Angelo Colombo.
Photo © A. Colombo