Two events marked the fourth part of the PSWAR new project Beauty Unrealized:

10.02.2007

Michel de Broin: Stick to Resist – SD (seeking device)

Through playful objects placed in public spaces as well as in art institutions and galleries, Michel de Broin investigates the concept of ‘resistance’ seen not in opposition to something but as a device that amplifies already existing tensions in the structures that otherwise go unnoticed. Following this perspective, de Broin has produced a large body of works that make visible these fundamental contradictions of different materials and, by analogy, of social systems subjected to clashes of various forces and constraints. For “Beauty Unrealized,” de Broin presented a new version of his earlier work Stick to resist, a portable sculpture attached to different metal surfaces, acting as a parasite and showing a fragile co-dependence with the system whose part it becomes. Stick to Resist – SD (seeking device) locates surfaces in the gallery space whose resistance provide this unusual sculpture with the support necessary to ‘survive’ while allowing it to infiltrate in the existing system.

Maurits Fennis: A Discourse On Density Between Reflective Surfaces. A performance piece for voice, electronics and rooms

Maurits Fennis is a composer and performer of electro-acoustic works, which currently deal with the inner acoustic qualities of spaces, and the voice. He has studied and developed extended guttural singing techniques and software for its analysis and elaboration. ADODBRS is an electro-acoustic piece concerning guttural singing and the resonant frequencies of enclosed spaces. This piece is Fennis’s personal critique of the use of “excessive technology and multispeaker systems in the composition of electro-acoustic music, as it attempts to show us that a throat, and a single speaker, both attuned to the acoustics of a space, can stimulate and articulate a spatiality beyond multi-directional speaker arrays; a spatiality which removes the dichotomy between that which produces sound, and that which receives it. It attempts to break down the barriers of our reductionist frameworks, and evolve our understanding of ourselves, and our environment.”

11.02.2007

Artists talk with Michel de Broin and Maurits Fennis.