[resource-net] reSource 003: P2P Vorspiel - Art Laboratory Berlin

cdelutz at artlaboratory-berlin.org cdelutz at artlaboratory-berlin.org
Thu Nov 15 15:25:03 CET 2012



Synaesthesia/ II: 25 January - 10 March, 2013
 
The term "synaesthesia", from the Greek "aisthesis" ("Sensation", "sensory impression") and "syn" ("together") means the experience of two or more sensory impressions at the same time. In
most cases it is a visual sensation evoked by auditory stimuli (John E. Harrison: Synesthesia.
The Strangest Thing, Oxford 2001). Synaesthesia
exists both as an aesthetic and cultural-historical concept (e.g. Rimbaud,
Kandinsky, Marinetti, Nabokov), and as a neurological phenomena effecting the
way in which some individuals perceive the world.
 
How can one imagine the interrelation between the different sensory impressions? Synaesthesia is often expressed through a combined perception of light, color, sound, touch and smell to individual spatial perception. Music can evoke visual images that
form brightness or the literal
passage of music. (LawrenceE. Marks: Synaesthesia.
Perception and Metaphor. In: Aesthetic
Illusion. Berlin 1990.)
 
From October 2012 to July 2013 Art Laboratory Berlin will be hosting
four exhibitions on synaesthesia. All the positions in the series are the
result of an open call we published in 2010 asking: How are we confronted with
the phenomena of synaesthesia in the late 20th and early 21st century? We expressed
particular interest in works that investigate different combinations of sense
perception, and its interaction with memory, the brain, and connections between
various artistic and scientific disciplines, as well as asking for works by
artists investigating their own synaesthetic experiences
(http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-open-call.htm)
 
Art Laboratory Berlin announces the opening of the 2nd exhibition of the
Synaesthesia series on 25 January 2013 featuring work by Madi Boyd and Carrie
Firman. 
 
Madi Boyd is a synaesthete, whose unique perception has led her to construct work focusing on perception
and the brain. She is currently collaborating with neuro-scientists, Dr Mark Lythgoe and Dr Beau Lotto, from University College London. This work incorporates and combines
installation, film and sculpture. The artist is interested in creating
performing environments and the interaction between space and moving image. 
 
Her
project The Point of Perception explores how
much information the human brain needs in order to know what it is looking at. It is an art experience and scientific arena
about vision, why we see what we do, and how much information the human
brain needs in order to know what it is looking at. The installation uses
moving image and built environments to confuse depth perception and is designed
to act specifically on the human eye and brain to create a space of
uncertainty. 
 
A
version of the installation was shown at Slade Research Centre (The
Brain Unravelled) in September
2009;the Norfolkand Norwich
International Festival, May 2010; andthe LondonScienceMuseum, September
2011. The project presented in Art Laboratory Berlin will be a
further developed version with the addition of sound and colour.The idea is to assign musical notes and
colours to specific points in the gridded space, in order to explore perception
of geometric space and sound. The notes and colours will correspond to each
other, and will be played simultaneously with the movement of the film. It will
create a sound sculpture as another layer of the work, connecting colour, space
and sound, and allowing the audience to perceive the space through another
sense. 
 
Carrie C Firman is an emerging electronic artist from the US.
She is a synaesthete and her work is inspired by studying and experiencing the
crossing of senses. She sees synaesthesia not only as a sensory phenomenon, but also
a fantastic world interface, responsible for completely unique perceptual
experiences. Her current work encourages its participants to reconsider their
perception as an entirely unique phenomenon, helping them to come to the
realization that even most basic level of perception differs widely
between otherwise similar individuals. The pieces that Carrie C. Firman is
presenting as part of the ‘Synaesthesia’ project at Art Laboratory Berlindeal with her sharing her
own synaesthetic experience with the viewers and inviting them to see/hear
things through this perceptual phenomenon. 
 
 
 
 
Christian de Lutz 
ARTLABORATORYBERLIN
Prinzenallee 34
13359 Berlin

office/ post address:
Nostitzstrasse 12 
10961 Berlin 
www.artlaboratory-berlin.org
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