Channa Boon: Stand Up Satellite

woensdag 26 juli 2017

Stand Up Satellite

What if a satellite disk does not transmit any far away signals, but stays in the hood and becomes each time more self observed and narcistic when we approach it? If we give it a closer listen, is it the rhythm of our own veins that we hear or our ancestors speaking to us? With whome do we communicate, if we do, at all?
duration: 12'
performers: Channa Boon: voice, Donia Jourabchi: feed back
© Channa Boon 2017. In collaboration with Helicopter The Hague

Karen Barad

Trained as a painter, Boon produces films, installations, drawings, performances and objects that can function together as one work or exist as solitary pieces. While Boon engages with the body, space, the landscape, sound and communities in intuitive and cross-sectional ways, her writing and research functions as a reservoir of knowledge and direction within this practice. Her research is based on a trans-disciplinary practice, connecting the different fields of (embodied) knowledge with each other. The source image and material in the work consists of the zooming – in to a story, a history or a phenomenon at the one hand and the connection of this with the physical, the body and the now on the other. This ‘physical’, ‘body’ or ‘now’ is very much akin to the so called ‘thick present’ in the work of philosopher Karen Barad; an ongoing now-ness that is connected on a deep and complex level within the tissue of existence. For Boon this thick present is a tangible and a possible translation of a phenomenon that she calls the ‘Acoustic Body’; a heightened perception and experience of the human body, the landscape, space and the object, and thereby the perception that these are all carriers of energy and exchange and connect with each other on a subtle level. Boon uses the word acoustic because she registers this exchange on a sub-acoustic level; you could also call it vibration. Boon gives shape and highlights this 'sound' or sub-acoustic experience through her work.

Pagina's

woensdag 26 juli 2017

Stand Up Satellite