Negative spaces are never blank. Just as there is no space around objects, only objects in space, there is no gap between sounds, since there is no possibility of silence. Instead what we hear is the reassuring throb of frequencies we are schooled to call ‘background’.
Join us for the first in a series of events co-presented with Liquid Architecture.
Sound artist Tara Transitory and performance artist Sara Mikolai will perform in ACCA’s empty galleries in between exhibitions.
Tara Transitory is a transwoman exploring the intersections of gender, noise and ritual through performance and the collective trance. Originally from Singapore, she considers herself a nomad.
Sara Mikolai is an artist of Tamil and German descent, who creates experimental situations/performances and rituals.
For Negative Volumes, Tara will perform a personal ritual, at once an erasure and an assertion of the body, where noise acts as an expression of unwanted things, a social static, like the strobe light that moves through and irradiates her body as it renders her performance invisible. Sara will perform in deep darkness, upsetting the hierarchy of senses, dissolving her body into the spectacle.
In this program, there’s no figure and no ground. There is no negative space. An empty institution is never completely empty. Instead, it becomes a means for throwing light and shade.
Negative Volumes invites a queering of the spatial politics of the invisible and visible, of the notions of audible and inaudible, and a questioning of the categories of the one and the other. We aim to enter the space opened up by this voluminous negation. How we structure sonic experience can provide models for how we structure community. The world is fucked. But, the gallery is empty. What will we do now?
Audiences are warned that this performance includes strobe lighting and low lighting.
Presented by Liquid Architecture and ACCA in association with Listen.
