'THE APPARENT SILENCE OF TINGUELY´S AQUATIC MACHINES'
The Apparent Silences of Tinguely’s Aquatic Machines 60:00 min Performance, 2018
The Automatons Jean Tinguely Fountain
Basel, Switzerland.
Photo: Julian SalinasEmilia Álvarez (b.1985) Artista Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian artist.
The Apparent Silences of Tinguely’s Aquatic Machines 60:00 min Performance, 2018
The Automatons Jean Tinguely
FountainBasel, Switzerland
Photo: Julian Salinas
Emilia Álv
arez (b.1985) Artista Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian artist.
CREDITS
Performance by Emilia Álvarez
Camera by Julian Salinas
Video and sound editing by Emilia Álvarez
With the support of URRA – Atelier Mondial Switzerland
(Edition 1/4) 1st Visual Arts Acquisition Prize, Espacio Finnegans (1st Edition)
ABOUT
During the action I enter into the Fountain wearing a waterproof suit, a radio signal system incorporated inside the suit and a Hydrophone (microphone for water), which allows sending and playing live and raw audio signal with the sounds produced under the water of the Fountain, generated by the mechanisms in operation of the kinetic sculptures in the density of the water. The signal was received by wireless headphones that I had delivered to the audience outside the fountain, seeking to explore a new perception in how to perceive, experience and contemplate the apparent environment.
Conceptually I seek to generate a visceral decentralised experience of a body, connected in a network that exceeds the physical field. Taking the environment and the public space as an animal-technological body, composed of organs that can be linked to each other through listening practice and sound. For that with the movements of my body and my translation inside the fountain I seek to enter into communication with the sculpture-machines in an attempt to listen to their internal voices, with the idea of becoming one more kinetic sculpture within the Fountain and the landscape and produce a continuous communication network inside and outside.
In the technical aspect of this project, I took the Fountain as a water stage and each machine sculpture as a musical instrument. Each sculpture has a motor and a movement that produces a particular sound pattern under the water, as if one was the kick, another the drum, another the hit hat and so on. Giving a sonorous expression of the techno and noise genre with voices in its most abstract expression.
The Apparent Silences of Tinguely’s Aquatic Machines, Video registered 3:05min
Group exhibition Slowly Arriving
Curators: Alexandra Stäheli and Ines Goldbach
Kunsthaus Baselland, 2021
Basel, Switzerland
Photo: Gina Folly
Emilia Álvarez (b.1985) Artista Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian artis
The Apparent Silences of Tinguely’s Aquatic Machines
Waterproof Suit
2018
Emilia Álvarez (b.1985) Artista Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian artist.
DRAWINGS
Research process drawings: machine mechanisms, water choreographies, movements, rhythms, and passages at the Tinguely Fountain, Basel, Switzerland
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The Apparent Silences of Tinguely’s Aquatic Machines Aquatic Choreographies II
Black graphite on white paper
350 × 500 mm
2018
Emilia Álvarez (b.1985) Artista Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian artist.
Emilia Álvarez Artista 1985, Buenos Aires Argentina.
The Apparent Silences of Tinguely’s Aquatic Machines Aquatic Choreographies I
Black graphite on white paper
8 pieces, each 297 × 420 mm
2018
Emilia Álvarez (b.1985) Artista Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian artist.
The Apparent Silences of Tinguely’s Aquatic Machines Aquatic Choreographies I
Black graphite on white paper
8 pieces, each 297 × 420 mm
2018Emilia Álvarez (b.1985) Artista Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian art
Emilia Álvarez (b.1985) Artista Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian artist.
'THE APPARENT SILENCE OF TINGUELY´S AQUATIC MACHINES. mutation I'
THE APPARENT SILENCE OF TINGUELY´S AQUATIC MACHINES, Mutation 1 Projection in dome
Galileo Galilei Planetarium
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022
Emilia Álvarez (b.1985) Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian artist.
The Apparent Silence of Tinguely’s Aquatic Machines, 2022
Projection in the 3D dome of the Galileo Galilei Planetarium, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curated by Melina Berkenwald
HD video 1920 × 1080, WAV audio incorporated
3:05min
Video credits
Performance by Emilia Álvarez
Camera recording by Julian Salinas
Video editing and sound by Emilia Álvarez
(Edition 1/4) 1st Visual Arts Acquisition Prize, Espacio Finnegans
ABOUT
Performance performed in the empty pools located in the outer basement of the Galileo Galilei Planetarium in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The sound is extracted from the performance made in the Tinguely fountain in Basel Switzerland and is reproduced from the empty pools of the subsoil using them as new resonance boxes, generating a mutation of the sound as an organism that continues alive and in movement. Playing a Live set of Techno.
Emilia Álvarez (b.1985) Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian artist.
MUTATION I, 2022 Performance
Galileo Galilei Planetarium
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Emilia Álvarez (b.1985) Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian artist.
