Zago will perform three actions –Reemplazo de silencios, Conferencia y Anulación de la transparencia [Replacement of silences, Conference, An Annulment of Transparence]–which will develop around Murmullo [Murmur], an installation consisting of substituting the windowpanes in the facade of the Casa Nacional del Bicentenario for sounds these panes can transduce from the inside.
The window panes will be removed from their original location and be relocated in different strategic points of the building. The ambient sound that will filter through them will be hyperamplified using piezoelectric sensors and emitted outside, where a wooden platform supporting speakers will be replacing the previous facade.
Two operators will be in charge of the Replacement of Silences, working from opposite ends of the installation. The one located outside will record the sound emitted by the speakers. Then, once inside, he will play the recording close to the windows. The second operator will replace the first and will reiterate the action. This gradual repetition will generate layers of recorded sound and silence, filtered and played by the window/facade.
For Conference, the artists will ask to the physic Pablo Ernesto Riera to prepare and give a speech connecting concepts of his field of expertise with the installation, using key words such as transparence, silence, and entropy as a basis to approach, rationalize and predict how this device works and what phenomena it will generate. Finally, for Annulment of Transparence, a wooden box will be built to cover one of the window panes located in the patio.
A window is a visual trap. By establishing a different relationship between the inside and the outside, mediated by an abstract, out-of-control sound flow, a change generates in the ordinary value system. This will modify the viewer's configuration of meanings and behaviors, by blocking the hegemonic technology of the eye.
Murmullo
Dates: April 28 through May 15 (except Friday May 1, and Monday May 11)
Time: 5 to 9 pm
Venue: Casa Nacional del Bicentenario
Admission: Free and open to all
Coproduced by Casa Nacional del Bicentenario - Argentine Ministry of Culture
Curated by Liliana Piñeiro
Acción #1 Reemplazos de silencios
Date: Monday May 4
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Casa Nacional del Bicentenario
Admission: Free and open to all
Acción #2 Conferencia
Date: Tuesday May 12
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Casa Nacional del Bicentenario
Admission: Free and open to all
Acción #3 Anulación de la transparencia
Date: Friday May 15
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Casa Nacional del Bicentenario
Admission: Free and open to all
Leonello Zambón 1970, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He participated of TRAMA, a cooperation-and-discussion program among artists (Buenos Aires, Argentina); the LIPAC platforms at the Centro Cultural Rector Ricardo Rojas (Buenos Aires, Argentina); the Fundación Telefónica's Interactive Art Workshop (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and as cultural agent of the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas (Buenos Aires, Argentina) He is also member of the independent art collective CIRCUITO C!N¡CO, and co-founder, with Sebastián Rey, of Sonido Cínico, which focuses on the development of sound labs and explorations. He is part of the project El Gran Aula, mobile constructive device made up of a series of modules which allow the development of cultural actions jointly with social and educational institutions of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires; together with Roger Colom, they are founding members of MPC (Parallel Ministry of Culture, as per its Spanish acronym), together they are also part of the art collective, COZA. He participated of the following festivals: NuMAn Festival of New 'Anexact' Music (Malba, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014); Acoustic and electric considerations on time, of Sonoimágenes Festival (Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014), and Festival SeSoS de la Música Energúmena, organized by the Parallel Ministry of Culture, and the Social Sound Secretariat (Club Cultural Matienzo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014). Chief among his exhibitions are: LINDE/MIT (Time Exchange Models) (Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014); Otros usos instrumentales. Sonido Cínico + Monteaudio (Contemporary Art Museum of Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2014); Linde - Cidade Especular (Galeria Xico Stockinger, Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2014); COVER - Un piano fantasma (Club Cultural Matienzo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014), and Recorridos sonoros. Huésped Documental, at the exhibition Discursos Encontrados (Contemporary Art Museum of Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2014).
Eugenia González 1983, Montevideo, Uruguay.
She lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Arts at the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay). She is currently in charge of the artistic direction of the Contemporary Art Museum of Montevideo (MACMO, as per its Spanish acronym), and is the editor-in-chief of Museo magazine. Since 2006 she works collectively with the artist Agustina Rodríguez. Through actions and interventions, the artist explores the structure of relations and the way artistic fields operate in order to upset modern categories of exhibition, renown, work of art, and role of the artist. Her actions cause a powerful physical/real impact. Chief among her solo exhibitions are Exposición sin acceso (Montevideo, Uruguay, 2012); Variables (Hall of the 54th Visual Arts National Award, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2010-2012); Remate a caja cerrada (MEC Platform, Scheps Workshop, Faculty of Architecture, UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2009); Toll MVD (Toll Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2008-2009); Interferencias en el sistema (non-conventional space, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2007), exhibition set up at an abandoned shipping line office; Manual práctico para artistas, en Nuevas vías de acceso II (National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2007),and Contenedor/Container (Institute of Art Pedagogy at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany, 2007).
González and Zambón work together under the name ZAGO, articulating both of their work to generate imperceptible movements.
1st Performance Biennial
April 27 thru June 7, 2015
Argentina 2015
2015 Biennial