Emmanuel Da Costa (Fr)

1 November 2019 City Sonic

Synapse (creation)

Emmanuel Da Costa uses photography to question our relationship to reality. Often, the shooting is a first sketch, a search base completed by the creation of sound environments, printed images, installations. By mixing his searches, he tempts to elaborate new stories, to counter evidence imposed in our screen world.

In the Synapse installation, Emmanuel suggests listening to photography. Echoing the physiological process, he wants to place it between the visible and the invisible, to invoke another sensitive and less immediate approach.

Synapse is composed of four metal plates which become turntables that emit parasitic noises.

With the support of Transcultures and ARTS² (IDM workshop), as part of the Émergences sonores et numériques program.
Acknowledgements to Silvain Vanot.

Biography

Emmanuel Da Costa first studied and conducted research in information and communication science and communication at Rennes 2 University, before joining the School of Visual and Plastic Arts in Mons. His heterogeneous background leads his work between multiple territories. Often, shooting is a first sketch, a search base. Then, the continuity of his work takes different forms. It revolves around the creation of sound environments, still and moving image, or installation, depending on the relevance of each medium. Tools that he seeks to make exist in his connection to contemporary image are these: The question of documentary, veracity of images, and the stories of the world, to dissect “the real” through scientific research, but also through political resistance.

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