SoundPerformance by Víctor Mazón Gardoqui

About

Inhabiting a world in constant oscillation, surrounded by natural phenomena, tectonic changes, drastic fluctuations in pressure, temperature, humidity, periodic alterations by gravitational attraction forces, but also, inhabiting a world constantly mutated by the impact of human activity, extraction of raw materials, seascapes soaked in burning oil, floating plastic islands and an exponential increase of portable wireless interconnected devices.

Our ability to understand the world we inhabit and of which we are part, as the reality that surrounds us, is increasingly complex, while consuming doses of reality through digital environments surrounded by information and counter-information in a post-truth era.

The nature that we imagine, that we think we feel or idolize, is a distorted version of the real, transformed by complex cognitive and perceptual processes, which makes us lose a deeper and perhaps a more satisfying form of realism. To reach a deeper realism requires moving away from what we call nature, in order to perceive it towards the real, where through its expression, it evokes a supernatural state, opposed to the natural or in a state beyond it.

Víctor Mazón Gardoqui
May 2019

As part of the program »Fictional Odyssey« at Bärenzwinger, Víctor Mazón Gardoqui presents a specific action for the space, as part of the exhibition »Fictional Nature«, amplifying the invisible by the use of sound as a material capable of sculpting the perceptual space.
Through a series of custom sensors and antennas, the action generates a physical ecosystem of the enormous mass of oscillations and vibrating matter in which we inhabit, although we are not able to perceive it, but with an effect on our bodies. Wavelengths distant to those perceived by our senses, mechanical and electromagnetic oscillations from the nature as opposed to those generated by humans (GPS, GSM, WIFI, BT, Radar, etc.), indicators of the abrupt transition we are immersed in the exact moment of the performance.

Coming soon

06/29/ + 30/19, 3 – 6 pm
Indoor and Outdoor Survival Workshop with Heath Bunting

07/10/19, 7 – 10 pm
TheorieMittwoch