Oorwonde - a tactile experience

Laura Maes

The exposition focuses on Oorwonde, a specific practical experiment within the research project Sounding sound art. The work, which falls somewhere between a sound installation and an interactive performance, consists of specially constructed stainless steel operating table upon which visitors, or ‘patients’ are invited to undergo ‘aural surgery’. Next to the concept and construction of Oorwonde, related practices are discussed in terms of their use of subsonic sound in interactive works or installations. The exposition introduces contextual information in regard to the artist’s broader work on the question of what constitutes ‘sound art’, while it’s main purpose remains the description and analysis of this new sound work, as a piece of artistic research.

I wish to thank the University College Ghent to financially support my artistic research.

Many thanks to dr. Godfried-Willem Raes (HoGent) for his guidance and amongst others, his welding skills.

My deepest gratitude goes to the Logos foundation, without them the practical realization of Oorwonde would not have been possible.

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