Sonic Doing & Thinking: Germany Week 7

White Cube

The central principal of the modernist exhibition space of the white cube came to be understood as a neutral space, where works are displayed in a setting allegedly allows optimal concentration on their perception.  Sealed windows’ artificial illumination, and walls painted white create a “clean” & “artificial” environment in which the artworks are not subject to time and space and kept disconnected from the world outside of it.” (Irene Noy: Touching sound art: In west Germany)

“Wherever we are, we are surrounded by invisible waves, which can be received everywhere and anywhere and can be made sonorous and vivid.”

Artisits: Luigi Russolo, Man Ray, Christina Kubisch,  Bernhard Leitner.

Ideas: The symbiotic relationship between our senses (especially sight and hearing) also us to trick and distort the toots that we use to analyse and examine the world around us, which in turn plays with the idea of consciousness and if everything we perceive is our brain ordering reality to its own assumptions of of what we deep “real”

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