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Contemporary Art: France / Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's  'From here to ear (v. 13)' 2010

Contemporary Art: France / Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's 'From here to ear (v. 13)' 2010

After training as a musician and composer, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot forged an art practice that merges the visual and the auditory. Boursier-Mougenot considers music the medium through which humans most commonly experience the intangible and abstract. He aims to create the conditions for experiencing what composer and innovator of ambient music, Brian Eno called 'the long now', by interrupting the constant assault of sensory data which passes for experience. A simple analogy is the experience of 'live' music with its sense of 'being there', in a spatial and sensory sense, which goes beyond the experience of listening, as Boursier-Mougenot underlines: 'Live music, produced live and where we are present, is among the phenomena which have the property of amplifying our feeling of the present moment'. The artist aims for this harmony of process and effect to encourage viewers 'to witness their own present time'. Boursier-Mougenot's installations combine the technical with the aesthetic and sensorial; he refers to them as functioning like a 'dispositif' rather than an installation. The term, loosely translated as device or structure, foregrounds the potential of a work to engage viewers in both the operational and aesthetic components of a work. 'From here to ear, (v. 13)' 2010 explicitly orchestrates a space for listening and experiencing within a technical and organic apparatus of sound production. 'Instruments' have been constructed and tuned to create an environment for finches to feed, fly, rest and make music through interacting with them as spaces for living. Rather than 'participation' on the part of the viewer, the artist is particularly interested in the quality of human attention that arises in the viewer through experiencing being within the installation. Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, France b.1961 / 'From here to ear (v. 13)' 2010 / Mixed media / Octagonal structures, each made in maple and plywood, harpsichord strings, piano pins, contact microphones and broadcast system, coat hangers, metal recipients, seeds, water, nests, ground in MDF, sand, grass, finches / Installed size variable / Commissioned for '21st Century: Art in the First Decade' / Collection: The artist / Courtesy: Galerie Xippas, Paris / With thanks to the Queensland Finch Society. BLOG: https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au WEBSITE: https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au PHOTOSTREAM: http://www.flickr.com/photos/queenslandartgallery 21st Century: Art in the First Decade / Gallery of Modern Art / 18 Dec 2010 - 26 Apr 2011
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Zimoun: 317 Prepared DC-Motors, Paper Bags, Shipping Container

Zimoun: 317 Prepared DC-Motors, Paper Bags, Shipping Container

On the occasion of Art Basel 2016 in Basel (Switzerland), Swiss artist Zimoun has been commissioned by Sennheiser to create a new immersive installation enclosed within an old shipping container. Lined with hundreds of paper bags—placed on the walls, floor, and ceiling of the container—each bag contains an engine, which moves it independently. Completely surrounded by a large number of small sound generation systems, the viewer is immersed in a three-dimensional sound composition. Zimoun: 317 Prepared DC-Motors, Paper Bags, Shipping Container. Ostquai, Basel (Switzerland), June 19, 2016. More videos on contemporary art, design, architecture: http://vernissage.tv Connect: http://www.facebook.com/vernissagetv http://twitter.com/vernissagetv Browse our Archive: http://vernissage.tv/archive/posts/ Find Artists, Designers, Architects: http://vernissage.tv/archive/artists/ Art TV pioneer Vernissage TV provides you with an authentic insight into the world of contemporary fine arts, design and architecture. With its two main series "No Comment" and "Interviews", art tv channel VernissageTV attends opening receptions of exhibitions worldwide, interviews artists, designers, architects. VTV provides art lovers with news, reports and features from the international art scene. VernissageTV: the window to the art world. Das Fenster zur Kunstwelt. La fenêtre sur le monde de l'art. A janela para o mundo da arte. La ventana al mundo del arte. نافذة على عالم الفن. 到艺术世界的窗口。Окно в мир искусства. Since 2005.
Zimoun [KE]³ Site Specific Installation at Knockdown Center, New York

Zimoun [KE]³ Site Specific Installation at Knockdown Center, New York

The Swiss artist Zimoun is known for his kinetic sound installations that use simple and functional materials. For the 10,000 square foot atrium of the Knockdown Center in New York, Zimoun created an immersive site specific installation made of 250 motorized wood beams and ropes – Zimoun’s largest site-specific project in the US to date. Each wood beam cyclically strikes the floor, producing a sonic experience reverberating within the huge space. The exhibition is titled Zimoun [KE]³. In conjunction with this monumental work Zimoun presented new projects at Bitforms Gallery in New York and Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University. Zimoun was born in Switzerland in 1977. The artist lives and works in Bern. His work has been presented in solo and group shows as well as performances internationally. Zimoun has been awarded different art prizes and residencies and has served as a guest lecturer. In 2003 Zimoun co-founded Leerraum.ch – a platform publishing works which explore forms and structures based on reductive principles and systems. Recent displays of his work include exhibitions at the Nam June Paik Art Museum in Korea; Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei; Ringling Museum of Art, Florida; Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond; bitforms gallery New York; Kunsthalle Bern; Seoul Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Liechtenstein; Fine Arts Museum Rennes; Art Basel; Galerie Denise René Paris; Museum Les Champs Libres, Rennes; Contemporary Art Museum MNAC Bucharest; Beall Art Center, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts Bern; Museum of Contemporary Art MSUM, Ljubljana; National Art Museum, Beijing; Museum of Fine Arts Lugano; among others. Zimoun [KE]³. Site Specific Kinetic Sound Installation at Knockdown Center, New York. March 8, 2015. More videos on contemporary art, design, architecture: http://vernissage.tv Connect: http://www.facebook.com/vernissagetv http://twitter.com/vernissagetv Browse our Archive: http://vernissage.tv/archive/posts/ Find Artists, Designers, Architects: http://vernissage.tv/archive/artists/ Art TV pioneer Vernissage TV provides you with an authentic insight into the world of contemporary fine arts, design and architecture. With its two main series "No Comment" and "Interviews", art tv channel VernissageTV attends opening receptions of exhibitions worldwide, interviews artists, designers, architects. VTV provides art lovers with news, reports and features from the international art scene. VernissageTV: the window to the art world. Das Fenster zur Kunstwelt. La fenêtre sur le monde de l'art. A janela para o mundo da arte. La ventana al mundo del arte. نافذة على عالم الفن. 到艺术世界的窗口。Окно в мир искусства. Since 2005.

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