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15/3/2006

Earwitness

CCNOA Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Bruxelles

Simon Ungers, Maria Blondeel, Christian Kieckens

The phonograph, the telephone and some time later also the radio. All of a sudden man was able to fix the immaterial and move or displace it. The nowadays commonplace virtual reality is a contemporary resultant of this; the fourth dimension has been transferred from theoretical physics to the leisure industry. For artists the ephemeral sound medium became shapeable matter. Especially during the last decade where technology has produced affordable high grade tools providing a continuous resolution improvement (strangely enough the opposite has happened to the visual media, where resolution has been regressing: from the very fine grain of slides and film to the coarse lines and pixels of video and computer images.)

CCNOA wants to provide audio artists with a 'stage' to present their works. The conventional concert facilities, regardless of sound amplification technology achievements, still approach music in a 19th century manner - there seem to be unwritten rules about average concert length (with a clear beginning and ending) and about the positioning of the audience in comparison to the sound source, as a negation of the multi dimensional aspect of sound, or as an overrating of the visual aspect of the event. Although these ideas are slowly becoming global we should not forget that they are often typically western.

On the other hand museums and galleries are seldom or never equipped and/or designed to host sound art and are often very object oriented (a loudspeaker often receives visual rather than aural attention.)

With Earwitness CCNOA wants to be a platform for audio art, not during the exhibitions of visual art, but next to them, on an equal base, in a neutral space, free from visual distraction. There has been a very conscious selection of artists with a musical background, for whom sound is the only material (this as opposed to sculptors building sound sculptures or music machines.)

The 4 Earwitness events are presented in a similar format: an evening presentation with the artist on Friday and continuous installation on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. (Guy De Bie'vre, coordinator)

support.
The Ministry of the Flemish Community, the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region, the City of Brussels, and the CCNOA Friends.

opening.
Thursday, 16/03/2006, 18.00 - 20.00

CCNOA
center for contemporary non-objective art
Blvd Barthelemylaan 5 - Brussels

opening hours.
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 14.00 - 18.00

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