This work is a continuation of the research and creation project Brave (K)new R/Wave.
How can anchoring in embodiment and the creation of inner spaciousness for multiple realities support listening as a basis for social change?
For this sound-light and soft-space installation, I choreograph space, sound, and light into an experience that supports multiple embodied listening. The sound, based on bass and sub-bass frequencies, is overlayed with vocal and polyvocal elements — including spoken word, song, two samples and responses from friends to project-related questions — is cyclical: from rave to wave, beat to flow, past to future to a sense of timelessness. The space is fully covered in a pink carpet and lit by colour-changing LED lights, with a composed slow-changing timing structure of 50 minutes that matches the duration of the soundscape.
An invitation for visitors to listen to sound, others, and themselves — their body-minds — while dancing, sitting, lying down, rolling on the floor, or moving in ways that resonate. The installation becomes a space for bodily listening, feeling, and imagining.
« Elle invite le spectateur à une expérience sensorielle inspirée de la culture rave, dans un cocon aux couleurs pastel où résonnent un mix de sons et de voix. Cela fait du bien… »
« She invites the audience into a sensory experience inspired by rave culture, in a cocoon of pastel colours where a mix of sounds and voices resonates. It feels good… »
Marie-Laure Rolland, La Glaneuse
EN Work details
(Brave (K)new R/Wave) Listening Space, from the series Brave (K)new R/Wave, 2021
Sound installation, 4 speakers, 1 subwoofer, LED lights, carpet, 50’
FR Fiche technique
(Brave (K)new R/Wave) Listening Space, de la série Brave (K)new R/Wave, 2021
Installation sonore, 4 haut-parleurs, 1 caisson de basses, lumières LED, tapis, 50’
Sound assistant and trumper : Michael Picknett
Dramaturgy : Alexandra Baybutt
Piano: Jesse Kyle Hardin
Drums: Nuno Brito
LED lights : Sam Ferstenberg
Recorded voices : Maria Almena, Guy Antony, Alexandra Baybutt, Jean-Luc Jossa, Arion Kalentzis, Michael Nique, Michael Picknett, Annique Schadeck, Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot, Simona Zemaityte
With the sample “I stayed in my body” from Donald Williams’ testimony on the second day of the Derek Chauvin murder trial in the case of George Floyd’s killing on March 30, 2021 in Minneapolis.
With a sample from a lecture on Posthumanism by Rosi Braidotti from March 3, 2021 at Kaaitheatre (BE)
With the support of : Uferstudios Berlin, Fonds culturel national du Luxembourg, Trois C-L, Lubelski Teatr Tánca, Folkestone Dance, The Green Nunhead, DKollectiv
2 July - 29 August 2021
(Brave (K)new R/Wave) Listening Space as part of the Triennale Jeune Création / Young Art Triennale / Brave New World Order at Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain (LU)
17 July 2021
Let's Rave Regenerative Stories workshop at Rotondes as part of the Triennale Jeune Création at Rotondes(LU)