The multimedia installation Grammophon consists of a set of four gramophones and 20 glass-disks engraved with drawings by the artist.
The multimedia installation Grammophon consists of a set of four gramophones and 20 glass-disks engraved with drawings by the artist. The device requires to be started mechanically by the public, creating the maintaining power and movement, which allows the disk to spin. Once activated, the installation becomes a living organism, an alive-playing and speaking body composed of different organs, connected by fine internal communications, made even more lively by the physical involvement of the audience and by the specificity of time and action of the performance.
Emilia Badalà lives and works in Catania, Hamburg and Berlin. She is currently attending the Master in Soundstudies at UDK in Berlin. Her practice is focused on sound installations and site-specific art.
Opening Saturday, January 28, 2012, 7 p.m.
Uqbar - projectspace
Schwedenstrasse, 16 - Berlin
Visiting hours Sunday 29.01., Friday 3., Saturday 4., Sunday 5.02.2012, 2 – 7 p.m.