Listening as a form of connection
Sound also plays an important role in transmission.
Sound only exists when it moves and is heard. It travels between bodies and across distances and can create temporary communities. The carillon of Park Abbey has fulfilled this role for centuries: its sounds marked moments of prayer, celebration, mourning and encounter, connecting the abbey with its surroundings.
In the exhibition, voice, music and vibration once again become ways of creating relationships.
- With Carlos Casas, listening becomes an ecological exercise. Bestiary (2024) — first presented at the Venice Biennale — brings together moving images and spatial recordings of, among others, bats, bees, dolphins, donkeys and elephants. The human being is no longer automatically placed at the centre of the world.
- Sound is also central to the work of Salvadoran-American artist Guadalupe Maravilla. La alegría del fuego(2023) combines sculpture, ritual and resonance. His so-called ‘healing machines’ use vibrations to create bodily and collective experiences around migration, trauma and recovery.
- With Eunjo Lee, sound becomes part of a virtual landscape. The Hesapia Trilogy (2024–2025) uses 3D technology and game engines to build digital worlds in which myth, ecological uncertainty and visions of the future merge.