KJELL BJØRGEENGEN/AERNOUDT JACOBS |
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In the autumn of 2007, a joint project by the Norwegian artist Kjell Bjørgeengen and the Belgian artist Aernoudt Jacobs has been shown in Bergen Art Museum’s Tower Room. A new, white floor will be laid over the old one, housing a partially sunken grid of sound speakers – some with a frequency so low that the sound will only be recognizable as the shaking of the floor, others with a high-frequency buzz. In addition to the sound, the exhibition will consist of nine large, rectangular flat screens, which, lacking frames and retaining their industrial look, will be divided among the three walls that face the viewer at the entrance to the room.
In the exhibition, the visual will no doubt seem less obtrusive than the audial. The visual elements originate from an oscillator synthesizer, which produces sound waves and then converts them into visual patterns. These patterns comprise the pictorial matter that is subsequently modified by Jacobs’ sound, each of which has a duration of 18 minutes. The sound from the speakers in the floor is first sent out into the exhibition space and then looped back, so that what we hear has already been colored by the architecture. In the exhibition itself, however, both the sound and images are replayed rather than live. The video imagery, in other words, doesn’t originate from a camera but from internally generated image processing in black and white, which renders varying visual results by means of a predetermined procedure. Although the 18 minutes of imagery has been selected from a larger amount of material, it is the procedure itself that determines what we see. At the same time, a large amount of labor has gone into finding the point at which an image is stable enough to tolerate being exposed to external disturbance. The site-specific installation that Kjell Bjøgeengen and Aernoudt Jacobs have created together for the Tower Room is based on more concrete experiences of the room’s, or more accurately the rooms’, architectonic and acoustic qualities.In the autumn of 2007, a joint project by the Norwegian artist Kjell Bjørgeengen and the Belgian artist Aernoudt Jacobs has been shown in Bergen Art Museum’s Tower Room. A new, white floor will be laid over the old one, housing a partially sunken grid of sound speakers – some with a frequency so low that the sound will only be recognizable as the shaking of the floor, others with a high-frequency buzz. In addition to the sound, the exhibition will consist of nine large, rectangular flat screens, which, lacking frames and retaining their industrial look, will be divided among the three walls that face the viewer at the entrance to the room. |
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