Duration
11.11.23, 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Language
English
Admission
Free admission
Info
Sound plays an important role in Tania Mouraud's visual work, from the sensory environments of the 1970s, like We Used to know, exhibited in “Inside Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists 1956-1976”, to her late video works, like AD NAUSEAM.
Collecting all kinds of sounds, natural and urban, from all over the world, Mouraud combines field recordings with elaborate electronic sounds. Her approach stems from noise music, Italian futurism and aleatoric music, arranging musical composition via the notion of chance.
Mouraud is active in the field of experimental music and regularly produces audio and video performances in France and abroad. In 2002, she founded the experimental music group “Unité de Production”, yet commenced with solo performances shortly after. In her live performances, Mouraud often puts experimental music to her videos. When she performs, she engages in live improvisation using thousands of samples.
In the new performance [BESO’D], which means secretly, Mouraud uses samples of different noises from urban spaces mixed with sounds found in hospitals. As destruction and death are always present in the filigree of her work, the hospital sounds from her own database gradually take over the urban samples. Mouraud then adds another layer to the audio: French texts written by her as well as whispered passages in Yiddish from poets such as A. Leyeles, Abraham Sutzkever, Itzik Manger, and Celia Korn. The aim is to create a moving atmosphere and a physical plasticity – a visual displacement of sound in the Auditorium of Haus der Kunst.
Admission to the performance is free. Seating is limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.