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This work is a continuation of the research and creation project Brave (K)new R/Wave.
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.
How can anchoring in embodiment and the creation of inner spaciousness for multiple realities support listening as a basis for social change?
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(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’
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(Brave (K)new R/Wave) Listening Space, de la série / from the series Brave (K)new R/Wave, 2021 Installation sonore, 4 hauts-parleurs, 1 caisson de basses, lumières LED, tapis, 50′ / Sound installation, 4 speakers, 1 subwoofer, LED lights, carpet, 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)