The discrepancy between image and sound is central for the exhibition 'Off Screen', in which the tension between visual and auditive space is sought out and exploited. A soundless but yet ‘musical’ approach is to be found in the work of Christian Marclay and Antonietta Peeters. In his work Mixed Reviews Marclay has someone ‘translate’ concert reviews into sign language, from text to facial expressions and arm movements. With her microphone sculptures Antonietta Peeters shows crocheted cloth objects that produce no noise, but on the contrary, with the fabric and wool used absorb sounds present in the space. The installation by Jeroen Diepenmaat indeed does make noises. A series of stuffed birds produce ‘dead’ bird sounds from record players. Their beaks function as the pick-up needles, so that the dead birds resurrect sounds once recorded from live birds.
Off Screen
With their videos, audio works and sculptures in the exhibition ‘Off Screen’ the artists investigate visual and acoustic space in relation to one another. The diverse ‘translations’ that the artists do via various technological media demonstrate our ambiguous, subjective relation to image, text and sound.
