Philippe Cavaleri (Be)

Two wooden cabins containing dozens of Buddhist prayer boxes, welcome you in the centre of the lawn. A sound environment broadcasted from various points of the court meets their strange singing polyphony.

The act of praying for the artist holds a fascination beyond all knowledge available… Monologue or dialogue of the deaf? If the sum of all noise was silence, the sum of all prayers would then be thought, the emptiness of the mind, a radical meditation? … And when the word is no longer sufficient in its redundant insistence, machines then speak, repeating endlessly what no longer fill any silence, no loneliness…

Production : Centre culturel de Huy, Transcultures

This installation is presented in two parts :

I. Language classes, on vinyl records, turning on players.

Some grooves have been erased from the surface of the record.
But there remains: loops, residues, silences, voices (women/men/children), sound effects, jingles, beeps, all at the same time. (Simultaneity of information).

II. Creations, in exposition boxes.

Vinyl records with the wood glue, a negative copy of language courses, with the residues of the removed matter of the surface of the language courses. Poetry of suspended silence. (But containing information that is on pause.)

Production : Transcultures