Studio Showing: A Language of What May Not Be Said by Lundahl and Seitl
Studio Showing: A Language of What May Not Be Said by Lundahl and Seitl
September 28 - October 1, 2022
At the advent of the endemic, the artists have chosen to present two artworks that, each in a different way, explore how technology makes us and lay the ground for our human umwelt: how it connects and disconnects us from each other and other life-forms and processes. To experience the artworks you will use VR technology, sightless goggles, and three-dimensional sound in headphones, and you will get an instructed choreography of movement and synchronized touch from a guide.
The program is part of Lundahl & Seitl´s engagement with the MIT ACT program by invitation from Urbonas Studio.
The Memor:
‘“The Memor” is a space that evokes the human ability to move beyond the present. The first encounter is with a stromatolite, a fossil that predates the human experience by 3.7 billion years. 3D-printed objects act as triggers in a series of environments: a piano workshop, a benevolent abyss, complex rooms where Virtual Reality can be defined as an ability rather than a form of technology. The capacity of memory allows the human mind to experience music rather than perceiving one tone after another. “The Memor” is a choreographed room that passes through the visitor’s body like a song.
Symphony of a Missing Room:
In "Symphony of a Missing Room," the value of agency and guidance is constantly negotiated in a dance of listening, adapting, and responding, not only to the immediate movement of your unseen guide but also to the objects and events from the past that have been integrated into the works’ choreographic score. As triggers for future experiences, these objects and events are now surfacing and played out horizontally in the present relationship and friction between visual and auditory organs and the nerves of the skin between the two bodies temporarily becoming the artwork.
A multitude of ideas, experiences, thoughts, and reflections echoes inside the Symphony as an endless conversation between presences and absences.