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9/2/2007

Beauty Unrealized

Public Space With A Roof, Amsterdam

Spider webs of personal universes seeking a form

Michel de Broin: Stick to resist - SD (seeking device)

Through playful objects placed in public spaces as well as in art institutions and galleries, Michel de Broin investigates the concept of ‘resistance’ seen not in opposition to something but as a device that amplifies already existing tensions in the structures that otherwise go unnoticed. Following this perspective, de Broin has produced a large body of works that make visible these fundamental contradictions of different materials and, by analogy, of social systems subjected to clashes of various forces and constraints.

For “Beauty Unrealized”, de Broin presents a new version of his earlier work Stick to resist, a portable sculpture attached to different metal surfaces, acting as a parasite and showing a fragile co-dependence with the system whose part it becomes. Stick to resist – SD (seeking device) locates surfaces in the gallery space whose resistance provide this unusual sculpture with the support necessary to ‘survive’ while allowing it to infiltrate in the existing system.

Maurits Fennis: A Discourse On Density Between Reflective Surfaces

Maurits Fennis is a composer and performer of electro-acoustic works which currently deal with the inner acoustic qualities of spaces, and the voice. He has studied and developed extended guttural singing techniques and software for its analysis and elaboration.

ADODBRS is an electro-acoustic piece concerning guttural singing and the resonant frequencies of enclosed spaces. This piece is Fennis’s personal critique of the use of “excessive technology and multi- speaker systems in the composition of electro-acoustic music, as it attempts to show us that a throat, and a single speaker, both attuned to the acoustics of a space, can stimulate and articulate a spatiality beyond multi-directional speaker arrays; a spatiality which removes the dichotomy between that which produces sound, and that which receives it. It attempts to break down the barriers of our reductionist frameworks, and evolve our understanding of ourselves, and our environment.”

About the research project Beauty Unrealized The fourth part of Beauty Unrealized focuses on the actual space of the PSWAR gallery through these two site-specific works. Nevertheless, both of the works, Michel de Broin’s resistant sculpture, and Fennis’s performance for voice, electronics and rooms, are not site-specific works in the usual sense as they use this environment as their temporary inspiration only, functioning as parasites on and in the body of this particular host. Structured in this way, they become mobile structures that can be strategically exported to other spaces in order to develop further the strategies of resistance (de Broin) or transform the reductionist perception of human senses (Fenin).

As a framework for the whole project, we created a special library in which visitors can enter and get lost in the world of thoughts, ideas, questions, possibilities, and puzzles. For this library, we invited numerous individuals (artists, filmmakers, writers, theoreticians, etc.) to submit items that have significantly influenced them and their work. Inspired by Aby Warburg, this library is “a collection of questions” rather than “a repository of books, (…) involving not objects but the tension, analogies, contrasts, or contradictions among them”. Its inside will be used to host six separate exhibitions where the invited artists will present their past works, works in progress, or works produced especially for this project.

Image: Michel de Broin

Opening: february 10, 2007

Public Space With A Roof
Overtoom 301- Amsterdam
Hours: Thursday to Sunday 3pm - 7pm or by appointment.

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