[lang_si]V petek, 21. julija 2023 ob 18.00 vabljeni v kavarno Nebotičnika na ogled in posluh radijsko-zvočnega+vizualnega eksperimenta

Joe Summers in Joe Vaughan THE ANGEL’S SHARE / Del gre za angelce

»Vsako zaznavanje resnice poteka prek detekcije podobnosti« – Henry David Thoreau

Umetnika bosta nastopila na dislocirani lokaciji v mestu, kjer ju bo možno neposredno spremljati z radijskimi sprejemniki in daljnogledi iz kavarne Nebotičnik –  v petek, 21. julij 2023 ob 18.00. Prinesite lastne radijske sprejemnike in daljnoglede!

Otvoritev komplementarne video-zvočne instalacije sledi takoj potem: petek, 21. julij 2023 ob 19.00 v Cirkulaciji 2, Podhod Ajdovščina Ljubljana 

Z uporabo performansa, besedila in glasbe, ki se prenašajo na daljavo, želita umetnika opozoriti na bistvene elemente resničnosti, ki so žrtvovane v procesu pošiljanja in sprejemanja: Živo telo postane telefonsko telo, živi glas postane hrup brez grla…

Dogodek poteka v sodelovanju z Radiom Študent, ki bo predstavo zvočno prenesel v ljubljanske domove – torej s 50% izgubo informacij!

https://radiostudent.si/kultura/odprti-termin-za-kulturo/delez-gre-za-angele

V letu 2018 sva teden dni preživela v Ljubljani, v kreativnem gnezdu C2, kjer sva oblikovala kratek performens. Zamisel je bila ustvariti fizično razdaljo med izvajalcem in občinstvom – v vidnem polju, a izven ušesnega dosega – ter z FM-radiom prenašati zvok od kraja nastopa domesta gledanja. Nastala je predstava ‘Tristo tisoč duš’ – naslov, ki nam ga je dal sodelujoči član Ali, ko je z grajskega griča gledal na mesto in govoril o mestnem prebivalstvu. Prispevek je govoril o pluralnosti in subjektivnosti, med drugim pa so pristopi skušali preizpraševati splošne subjekte (mesta in prebivalci) z opisovanjem specifičnih primerov – in obratno.

V letih od takrat sva imela srečo, da je bilo več priložnosti za nadaljnji razvoj dela: izdana je knjiga, ki podrobno opisuje najine metode v Ljubljani; sodelovala sva na rezidenci v Španiji v t.i. »sodelovanju« z znanstveniki – v raziskovalnem inštitutu za temno snov, kjer sva z nekaterimi od teh metod opozorila na kvalitete realnega sveta, ki so žrtvovane v procesu prenosa v nek drug medij; in to je sčasoma postal projekt “The Angel’s Share” – hibridna instalacija/ performans, ki je bil izveden letos (2022) v galerijskem okolju v Münchnu. Spremljala sta ga tudi specifična zvočna kompozicija in pamflet s to temo povezanih spisov. V letu 2023 imava v načrtu nadaljni razvoj projekta – z več rezidencami po svetu. Veseli naju da lahko projekt pripeljeva nazaj v njegov duhovni dom – Ljubljano. V približno dveh tednih bova delo prilagodila lokalnemu okolju, potem ga bova javno predstavila.

Angel’s share / Del gre za angelce, izhaja iz škotske tradicije kuhanja viskija, ko del alkohola vedno izhlapi. Pravijo, da to je pa del za angele…

Angel’s share je delo razpeto med geografijo in zvok. Torej, raztegovanje predstave: prek daljave, prek višine, prek praznine in prozornega. Skozi tisto, kar je polno. Prizadevava si premostiti praznine in jih napolniti – ter ugotoviti, da smo povezujoči in polni. Pri radiu, tako kot pri telefonu, doživljamo živost na daljavo. Pri doživljanju glasu brez telesa izgubimo kontekstualne informacije, ki so potrebne za popolno razumevanje drugega. Mimika, postran pogledi, nasmehi. Vonj po znoju kot se sogovornik laže. Umikanje telesa ob poslavljanju.

Anthony Gritten opisuje proces “poslušanja” kot proces ustvarjanja telesnega odziva na prejeti zvok (resonanco) z zunanjimi – kontekstualnimi – označevalci. “Da bi se subjekt pojavil na temelju zgolj zvočnega dogodka – mora priti do telesnega odziva. In to je resonanca tega zvoka v telesu.” (Gritten 2010). V trenutku, ko zvok doseže naša ušesa, imamo najprej fizični odziv, ki se nato preoblikuje v tisto, kar si razlagamo, kot da ima pomen.

“Ko zvok resonira, postane ritmičen. Pod tem pogojem nastane subjekt. Ritem sledi resonanci […], ki se odpira smislu in pomenu” (Gritten 2010).

Na ta način pomen, ki ga izpeljemo iz zvoka, torej ritem, ni samo rezultat vpliva zvoka, ampak ga kreira šele dodatna prisotnost dražljajev, ki niso zvok sam. Skratka, slišimo z ušesi, poslušamo pa z vsem bitjem.

Ko se zvok predvaja, so kontekstualne informacije, ki sporočajo njegov pomen, popačene. Velik del je izgubljen. A telo vseeno posluša. Kar je izgubljeno, je lahko darilo izvajalcu in občinstvu. In če je verjeti ljudskemu izročilu škotske žganjekuhe: darilo nebesnemu drugemu. V performensu se zgodi preselitev najinih performativnih teles v čudno področje slušnega in najino občinstvo lahko to čudnost preslika nazaj na najina mala, oddaljena telesa – ali morda na svoja, ali pa na telesa 300.000 duš, ki se potikajo po mestu pod njimi.

Joe Summers in Joe Vaughan sta multidisciplinarna umetnika s sedežem v Berlinu oziroma Bristolu. Angel’s Share je raziskovanje tega, kar izgubimo s prenosom informacij in našim nujnim zanašanjem na analogijo. Oba avtorja sta iz vrst mlajše generacije umetnikov. Po umetniških pristopih sta v veliki meri konceptualista, ki vsak njun (skupen ali avtorsko posamezen) projekt zastavita povsem na novo. Pri tem vstopata na na neraziskana področja: od zvočno-vizualnih do absurdno-teatrskih pristopov.

Joe Summers je bil v zadnjih šestih letih gost Cirkulacije 2 že štirikrat – v vsakem primeru povsem drugačen. V letu 2019 kot avtor in kurator, ki jetedaj med enomesečno rezidenco predstavil svoje prav tako mlade angleške kolege, ki so izjemno uspešno izvedli trojico projektov:
– The Last Of England (rež. Derek Jarman) – live score / glasbena spremljava za film http://www.cirkulacija2.org/?p=5694
– Sukitoa O Namau & Joe Summers live / zvočno teatrski performans http://www.cirkulacija2.org/?p=5733
– Tristo tisoč duš na ljubljanskem gradu / performens za radijski oddajnik in bicikelj na ljubljanskem Gradu. http://www.cirkulacija2.org/?p=5673

Produkcija = soorganizacija: Cirkulacija 2 in Inštitut ON Rizom
Podpora projektu: Radio Študent
Sofinanciranje: Mestna občina Ljubljana in Ministrstvo za kulturo RS

[lang_en]Friday, 21st July 2023 at 18.00 from the Nebotičnik cafe -> radio-aural+visual experiment:

Joe Summers and Joe Vaughan THE ANGEL’S SHARE

“All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy” – Henry David Thoreau

The two artists performing live on Friday, 21st July 2023 at 18.00 at a dislocated location in the city, and the audience will be able too follow them via radio receivers and binoculars from the Nebotičnik cafe. Bring your own radio receivers and binoculars!

Opening of site-specific multimedia installation: Friday, 21st July 2023 at 19.00, in Cirkulacija 2, Ajdovščina subway, Ljubljana 

The Angel’s Share is an exploration of that which we lose through the transmission of information and our necessary reliance on analogy. Using performance, text and music, transmitted live on FM radio frequencies from another location, the artists seek to draw attention to the qualities of reality which are sacrificed in the process of sending and receiving: The live body becomes the telephonic body, the living voice becomes a throatless noise…

Event is also hosted at the airwaves of Radio Študent, that will take the perfromance into your homes – with 50% loss of information!

https://radiostudent.si/kultura/odprti-termin-za-kulturo/delez-gre-za-angele

Joe Summers and Joe Vaughan are multidisciplinary artists based in Berlin and Bristol respectively.

In 2018, we spent a week in Ljubljana, in the creative nest C2, where we designed a short performance. The idea was to create a physical distance between the performer and the audience – in the field of vision but out of earshot – and to transmit the sound from the performance venue to the audience via FM radio. The play ‘Three Hundred Thousand Souls’ was created – the title was given to us by the participating member Ali, when he was looking at the city from the castle hill and talking about the city’s population. The paper talked about plurality and subjectivity, and among other things, the approaches tried to question general subjects (cities and inhabitants) by describing specific cases – and vice versa.

In the years since then, we have been fortunate to have several opportunities to further develop our work: a book was published that describes our methods in Ljubljana in detail; we participated in a residency in Spain in the so-called “collaboration” with scientists – in the research institute for dark matter, where with some of these methods we drew attention to the qualities of the real world, which are sacrificed in the process of transfer to another medium; and this eventually became the project “The Angel’s Share” – a hybrid installation / performance, which was carried out this year (2022) in a gallery environment in Munich. It was also accompanied by a specific sound composition and a pamphlet of writings related to this topic. In 2023, we plan to further develop the project – with more residences around the world. We are happy that we can bring the project back to its spiritual home – Ljubljana. In about two weeks, we will adapt the work to the local environment, then we will present it publicly.

Angel’s share comes from Scottish tradition while cooking whiskey – a part of alcohol always evaporates. And they say: this is angel’s share…

This piece is a work of geography and of sound. A stretching of performance, across distance, across height, across the empty and the transparent. Through that which is full. We seek to bridge and to distend and find ourselves bridged and distended.

In radio, like the telephone, we are experiencing the “live” over distance. And in experiencing the voice without the body, we lose the contextual information one requires to understand the other in full. Facial expressions, sideways glances, smiles. The smell of sweat as a liar panics. The pulling away of the body as one says goodbye.

Anthony Gritten describes the process of “listening” as the process of overlaying an embodied response to timbre (resonance) with external, contextual signifiers. “in order for the subject to emerge from this timbral event there must be a working through, and this is timbre’s resonance in the body.” (Gritten 2010). The moment sound reaches our ears, we have, at first, a physical response which is then transformed into that which we interpret as having meaning.

“As timbre resonates, it becomes rhythmic”. It is upon this condition of possibility that the subject emerges. Rhythm follows resonance […] opening up towards sense and meaning” (Gritten 2010).

As such, the meaning we derive from sound, the rhythm, is not only influenced by but created by the presence of stimuli other than the sound itself. In short, we hear with our ears, but listen with everything. When sound is broadcast, the contextual information that informs it’s meaning is distorted. Much of it is lost. But the body still listens.

That which is lost can be a gift to the performer and to the audience. And if the folklore of highland distilleries is to be believed, a gift to some celestial other. There is a transmigration of the performing body, into the strange region of the aural, and our audience can map that strangeness onto our small, distant bodies or perhaps their own, or the bodies of the 300,000 souls who circle through the city beneath them.

Joe Summers and Joe Vaughan are multidisciplinary artists based in Berlin and Bristol respectively. Angel’s Share is an exploration of what we lose through the transmission of information and our compulsive reliance on analogy. Both authors are from the younger generation of artists. In terms of their artistic approaches, they are largely conceptualists, who start each of their (joint or individually authored) projects completely anew. In doing so, they enter unexplored areas: from audio-visual to absurd-theatrical approaches.

Joe Summers has been a guest of Cirkulacija 2 four times in the last six years – in each case completely different. In 2019, as an author and curator, who during a one-month residency presented his equally young English colleagues, who have extremely successfully implemented three projects:
– The Last Of England (rež. Derek Jarman) – live score / glasbena spremljava za film http://www.cirkulacija2.org/?p=5694
– Sukitoa O Namau & Joe Summers live / zvočno teatrski performans http://www.cirkulacija2.org/?p=5733
– Tristo tisoč duš na ljubljanskem gradu / performens za radijski oddajnik in bicikelj na ljubljanskem Gradu. http://www.cirkulacija2.org/?p=5673

Production = co-organization: Cirkulacija 2 and Inštitut ON Rizom
Support: Radio Študent Ljubljana
Co-financing: Municipality of Ljubljana and Ministry of Culture RS