Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
The Lovers
The Lovers is a spatialized sound installation broadcast through a series of speakers distributed throughout Calgary’s downtown Civic Plaza Parkade Park. Designed to act as an ambiguous, temporary monument, The Lovers combines the sounds of bells and human voices and will transmit a message for the listener to slowly and carefully decode. The composition was recorded in both Berlin and Calgary, with members of the Calgary Boys’ Choir (which once counted Nemerofsky as a member) lending their voices to the project. The Lovers has been produced for Nuit Blanche with support from Esker Foundation, Calgary.
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay is a Montréal-born artist and diarist currently based in Berlin. His creative gestures in video, sound, and text contemplate the history of song, the rendering of love and emotion into language, and the resurrection and manipulation of voices – sung, spoken, or screamed. Nemerofsky’s work has been exhibited in diverse contexts across Canada, Europe, and Asia and has won prizes at festivals in Canada, Germany, Poland, and Portugal. His work is part of numerous private collections as well as the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
