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Kevin Schmidt Wild Signals

Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Expositions

Expositions du 11/9/2009 au 17/10/2009 Terminé

Galerie Van Der Mieden Pourbusstraat 15 . 2000 Antwerp/Belgium T +32(0)3 231 77 42 F +32(0)3 294 74 58 info@vandermieden.com www.vandermieden.com Wed-Sat 14-18 and by appointment

In Wild Signals (2007, 9:42 min), a video by Canadian artist Kevin Schmidt (1972), a concert stage is installed in the center of an uninhabited and snowy landscape. Suddenly, out of nowhere, music starts and colored light beams start flashing. It's the theme sound that was used to communicate with aliens in Spielberg's classic Close Encounter of The Third Kind' (1977). Spielberg was inspired by 19th century scientific sound and light research, like the musical language Solresol, created by Jean-François Sudré. His idea was a universal communication system based on tone.

In Kevin Schmidt's video the static surrounding is curiously invaded by various tones, the colorful spots and artificial bursts of mist. Wild Signals is a lonely rave, an imagined place, a theatrical experience. It forms a barrier between the viewer and his surrounding, between an artificial technological relationship with nature on one hand and our individual (in)ability to cope with this.

press release: exhibition "Wild Signals" at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart 2008 (excerpt)


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