Quasi Monument
installation, ytong and speakers, 300x500x300cm,2018.
In the depicted installation, I mimic an ancient greek
monument using a contemporary material like ytong.
The quasi monument from the industrial material, is
stripped of every trace of memory. Inside the walls
are placed speakers, which generate sound, created
in the SuperCollider. The ytong, as a porous material,
absorbs but also leaves the sound to pass through the
walls, thus in combination with the particular sound
creates a vibration in the installation, adding the monumentality
that is missing from the material.
In the installation the stimulus of the receiver is at
a first level spatial: a ytong construction that mimics
an ancient architecture monument. In a second
level though, there is a time stimulus, the sound. The
receiver is confronted with the process of a peculiar
“translation”: he feels the vibration of the space and
is called to interpret space and sound through his own
personal experiences.
monument using a contemporary material like ytong.
The quasi monument from the industrial material, is
stripped of every trace of memory. Inside the walls
are placed speakers, which generate sound, created
in the SuperCollider. The ytong, as a porous material,
absorbs but also leaves the sound to pass through the
walls, thus in combination with the particular sound
creates a vibration in the installation, adding the monumentality
that is missing from the material.
In the installation the stimulus of the receiver is at
a first level spatial: a ytong construction that mimics
an ancient architecture monument. In a second
level though, there is a time stimulus, the sound. The
receiver is confronted with the process of a peculiar
“translation”: he feels the vibration of the space and
is called to interpret space and sound through his own
personal experiences.