just uploaded: ‘Schwarze Luft’
composition by Les Horribles Travailleurs
\ Image: Max Kuiper\ Black Air installation \ These are the complete sound works that were partly integrated into the ‘Black Air’ installation of z\w\a\r\t magazine. Segments and\or elements of these works were woven into the Air Noir sound work. Released on tape as part of z\w\a\r\t magazine nr. 29 – Black Air issue. Additional, elements where used for the sound performance by Les Horribles Travailleurs during the opening of the exhibition. \ z\w\a\r\t installation, which is part of the ‘Black Air’ group exhibition. Casino Luxembourg – Fo.rum d’art contemporain, 41, rue Notre-Dame, L-2240 Luxembourg Artists: Aldo Tambellini, Otto Piene, Ibrahim R. Ineke, Semiconductor, Ayako Kato, Max Kuiper, Lisa Slodki, Hans de Wit Curator: Amelia LiCavoli Exhibition from 05.10.2024 to 05.01.2025 “Black Air takes its name from a 1968 electronic environment of video and pneumatics by Aldo Tambellini and Otto Piene. In addition to this re-activation, a new publication, site-specific installations, and performances have been commissioned. Ibrahim R. Ineke’s painting and artist’s book set the human scale. Semiconductor maps scientific data from expanses of dark energy within superclusters of galaxies, and visualizes them as sculptural reliefs, accompanied by sound. Ayako Kato performs a physical exploration of metaphysical black air throughout space and time. Max Kuiper constructs a mixed-media installation of sound, video projections, and transparent sheets with encased materials and prints. A suspended video installation by Lisa Slodki depicts a series of dynamic vignettes captured during a search for ether. Landscapes by Hans de Wit indicate bursts of radiation, churning air, and biological antennae, suggesting that the earth’s surface is more like a lung than a hard crust. Together these artworks demonstrate the amorosity of black air—which becomes visible or tangible only through its interactions, relationships, and effects.” Source + more information:
Air is black. It is without colour, without luminosity, and without form. Its blackness is not void, but constitutes pure potential, raw cre
