The project is aimed to investigate sounds produced by the artists during their working processes. Three practitioners with various practices constructed a single installation, manipulating the sound as their primary medium.
While working with different ideas, approaches, materials and objects, artists unconsciously produce various sounds, usually treated as a side product of art making. In the Soundhood project these audio traces are captured and revised to reveal their potential as a completely autonomous part of the artistic practice.
Every participating artist has its own part in the installation, which remains a personal work that focuses on the specificities of their art practices.
Mostly working with installation, sculpture and performance, she decided to make an object that would relate to the proposed space. Albina N cast a plaster block, devided it into parts and applied to each of them different tools found in the apartment. Ano Yudol in their practice is focused on the theme of identity and how it could be shown through performative action. In the work that they did during the Soundhood project Ano investigates the gender binary with the help of russian folk dancing.
Being in the one apartment, Vasilisa Brodetskaya, Albina N and Ano Yudol were separated in different rooms, while producing their works. They captured every sound that was consciously or unconsciously generated during the processes of artmaking and developed three audios out of it. The final installation presents these sound works using three transmitters, every one is placed in the room where the particular recordings were produced. As follows, the Soundhood project consists of three parts that represent the audio trace of each artist’s work. The exhibition space unites the sounds together and produces a sole piece, where diverse practices of previously discrete artists collapse and interact with each other, making various types of unexpected relations.
Vasilisa Brodetskaya explored the given space by knocking on surfaces. In her personal practice she frequently uses her own heartbeat, and the work for the project is not an exception — every knock that she performs is synchronised with the rhythm of her heart. Another artist who took part in this work is Albina N. She explores an idea of network, structure, process, and material investigating the relations between parts within her artworks. She uncovers connections between systematic approaches, materials used, and viewer engagement.
Moscow, Veshnyakovskaya 17.
Vasilisa Brodetskaya - bedroom
Albina N - kitchen
Ano Yudol - workroom.
The proposed space for the project is a three-room apartment. It architecturally represents the project’s concept as the area has three separated rooms, while united in a single space – the flat itself. It is employed not exclusively as a territory for ex- hibition but also as a place where the works were performed.
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Vasilisa Brodetskaya, Albina N, Ano Yudol
Vasilisa Brodetskaya, Albina N, Ano Yudol
Vasilisa Brodetskaia, Albina N