26.01, 17:30 > 22:00
27.01 > 31.01, 12:00 > 19:00
01.02, 12:00 > 16:00
In this sound installation of Maryia Kamarova, found objects and electroacoustic mechanisms are arranged into a temporary world inhabited by miniature hybrid beings. Neither robots nor animals, they move without purpose, yet with persistence. Their voices are fragile, and at times they fall silent, as if trying to remember all the other once useful things – wires, spools, buttons, fragments of ceramic and plastic.
«Well, what’s your name?» you ask him. «Odradek,» he says. «And where do you live?» «No fixed abode,» he says and laughs; but it is only the kind of laughter that has no lungs behind it. It sounds rather like the rustling of fallen leaves. And that is usually the end of the conversation. Even these answers are not always forthcoming; often he stays mute for a long time, as wooden as his appearance.» (The Cares of the Family Man, Kafka)
Concept, realisation: Maryia Kamarova
Coding, object behaviour: Victor Outters
Special thanks: Dominik t’Jolle, Miloš Vojtěchovský
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Maryia Kamarova is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is situated on the borders of performing arts, scenography, sound and installation art. She is interested in creating spatial settings that foster a sense of curiosity and attention toward everydayness. By staging and repurposing commonplace objects and technology, Kamarova’s works emphasize material agency and creative capacities of the nonhuman world.
She performed internationally in Europe and overseas at Archipel, Rewire, Reveil, Sonic Acts, Lisboa Soa and others. She is a co-founder of PYL collective and is a member of the Q-O2 art team in Brussels.