installation
OLALA WEIMAR
URBAN NATION GALLERY BERLIN
THE INSTALLATION PROJECT OLALA WEIMAR FOCUSES ON LOCATING AND SOUNDING HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT QUEER PLACES & SPACES IN BERLIN GERMANY TO ENABLE NEW ACCESS TO THESE PLACES. I RESEARCHED NEARLY 60 LOCATIONS, INCLUDING THEIR OWNERS AND TYPES OF EVENTS TO better understand the importance Of THEse HISTORICAL PLACES AS WELL AS TO DOCUMENT INFORMATION, THROUGH SOUND AND IMAGE, on the socio-political nature of these QUEER UTOPIAS. A smaller SELECTION OF the QUEER SPACES WERE THEN TRANSLATED INTO SCORES AND COMPOSITIONS. THE INSTALLATION SPECIFICALLY EXPLORES THE GENDER IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL UTOPIAS LIVED IN at The ‘DORIAN GRAY’ queer lesbian bar club. this was performed BY COMBINING HISTORICAL MATERIAL, SONIC SENSIBILITIES WITH A SELF-DEVELOPED SCORE METHODOLOGY. in other words, I TRANSFERRED FEELINGS OF WORK AND LOVE, SUFFERING AND JOY THROUGH THE SCORES IN A SYNESTHESIATIC visual methodology; FOR EXAMPLE; IN THE IMAGES BELOW I EXPLORE HOW BODIES MOVED IN THESE PLACES, HOW COLOURS AND FABRICS DETERMINED THE SPACES AND HOW LANGUAGE possibly EVOLVED from these social processes. THE INSTALLATION RECALLS THE everyday concepts OF WARHOL WITH MY OWN MELANCHOLIC EMOTIONS SHAPING THE SCORES THAT ARE SIGNIFIERS OF A POST-PHENOMENOLOGICAL METHOD. REAL AND IMAGINED EXPERIENCES BECOME SOUNDS TO RECREATE AND EXPERIENCE MOODS, FEELINGS, BODIES, MOVEMENTS AND GENDER DIVERSITY. I AM EXPERIMENTING WITH PITCH, SPEEDS AND A CHOIR FOR THIS PURPOSE. FOR EXAMPLE, THE CAFÉ „DORIAN GRAY“ CAN BE EXPERIENCED ACOUSTICALLY WITH A COMPOSITION BASED ON THE JAZZ OF THE 1920S.
ANONYMOUS
Anonymous was a site specific sculptural intervention exploring the issues surrounding RACE & censorship.
The immersive sound that accompanied the visual text (banned literary artists names) on the sculpture was that of books being burnt.
INPRINT
Inprint was an performative installation that critiqued identity, gender, and surveillance. Furthermore it exposed the concept of gifting and its relevance in regards to the idea of digital democracy.
infringement
Infringement was a sonic intervention using Piezo Microphones and chalk. It exposed issues of racism, indigenous rights, colonialism and biopolitics.
Biopolitics can be understood as a political rationality which takes the administration of life and populations as its subject: ‘to ensure, sustain, and multiply life, to put this life in order’. Biopower thus names the way in which biopolitics is put to work in society, and involves what Foucault describes as ‘a very profound transformation of [the] mechanisms of power’ of the Western societies.
PIANOLA
Pianola was a site specific intervention upon an everyday space in the heart of urban Northcote in Melb Australia.
Armed with binaural recording microphones, the old pianola relayed the everyday sounds that it recorded back to the public in a sense of bringing to the surface the changing and unchanging nature of capitalist life. It was inspired by social representation and modes of social behavior that are followed by individuals and groups. It transcribed the tactics available to the common person for reclaiming their own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of a social composition it attempted to unravel the private meaning of the individual subjectivity.
