Channa Boon: Modular Khachapuri

dinsdag 21 april 2020

Modular Khachapuri

Ceramics used with pouring technique, fired at different temperatures, 65 different sound objects. Produced during a residency in the EKWC in The Netherlands.

KHACHAPURI is a growing community of ceramic, acoustic objects, inspired on the Georgian dish ('Khachapuri': a pointy bread with an egg in the middle) that together form a percussion instrument. Due to the production process, each object differs in tone when struck. Bread and the oven were sacred in the early agricultural cultures of the Neolithic; the symbolic consumption of the body of Christ in the form of bread and wine (the body and blood of Christ) stems from here and is connected to the original symbols of the Mother Goddess. Sound also 'played' an important role in the Neolithic. This can be found, for example, in the hypogeum on Malta; one around 2500 B.C. man-made underground space in which extreme sound resonances are possible and which is part of a large Neolithic temple complex. By playing the Khachapuri, the 'bread' is 'consumed' by the body on a different level; on a more subtile, acoustic level, that of sound.

Live performances: Theater Scheltema (020202020 space event), TESTCASE EKWC and Kunstinstituut MELLY Rotterdam (during 'My Oma').

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.

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dinsdag 21 april 2020

Modular Khachapuri