LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE welcomes artists Nicolas d’Alessandro (Belgium) ad Jean-François Lahos (Quebec) for the second part of the Vice Versa cross residencies. It take place between November 7 and December 22. The project will be presented on December 21 at 5pm to LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE.
With Requiem, d’Alessandro and Lahos thus continue the reflection and exploration initiated in Mons, from September 26 to November 6, 2016, within the framework of a cross exchange between Transcultures and LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE. The artist duo will create a digital installation that brings together sculptural architecture and synthetic voice spatialisation.
By bringing together their respective practice, the artists will produce a tactile and sound piece that refers to the symbolism of a Requiem, seeking to transcend the leaden shroud of death by bringing the public in a space of cosmology. Lahos will build an object filled with conductive ink remembering the shape of a recumbent statue that can be activated by the movement, the touch of the spectator. Placed in the centre of a circle of loudspeakers broadcasting a choir of synthetic voices created by d’Alessandro, the object allows the embodiment of the voice, giving way to a spacialisation of the sound. The public will have to seek the balance between the presence of sound and the object, a place where the intangible and the concrete must intertwine.
