Double Bill: Rotunda / Public Attention
Didianne Leusink / Roman Tkachenko in collaboration with Goya van der Heyden and Anllel MariaExpected end time: 21:30 hour
Nieuwe Gallerij
Two young artists, two short performances – one evening packed with new talent.
During this special double-bill, you’ll experience two performances by promising artists.
In Rotunda , Didianne Leusink explores how glass, tape and other analogue systems interact. Through live experimentation, a constant dialogue emerges between control and chance, listening and action.
*Public Attention* is an audiovisual performance featuring video footage and spatial sound recordings, captured during political demonstrations.
Rotunda
Rotunda is constructed around a metre-long tape loop featuring recordings of hand-blown glass plates. Air bubbles, distortions and irregular grooves produce a variety of sounds: from subtle crackles and vibrations to deep, sustained tones. The title refers to a circular space in architecture. This principle of circling, repetition and circularity is also reflected in the work. Both the tape loop and the glass plates are constantly moving in circles, creating ever-changing combinations of sounds.
In *Rotunda*, Didianne Leusink explores how glass, tape and other analogue systems interact. Through live experimentation, a constant dialogue emerges between control and chance, listening and action.
The audience is invited to move freely around the space. Every movement reveals new details and perspectives within the ever-changing soundscape.
Rotunda was developed by Didianne on commission from Intro in Situ and Het Concreet.
Public attention
How is sound used to control public space, and how can collective sound-making become a practice of organising, resisting and reclaiming it?
Public Attention is an audiovisual performance that takes the form of a hearing, built from cases where sound in public assembly has become subject to restriction, dispute and control. The performance starts from a 2021 climate protest on Burgemeester van Grunsvenplein in Heerlen, where restrictions were imposed on live music and performances, and connects it to historical and contemporary cases of sonic restriction, imposed silence and weaponised sound. Through activist testimonies, Hildegard von Bingen’s letters, protest songs and other sonic evidence, the hearing develops into an appeal for the place of sound within public assembly and collective political expression.
In this way, Public Attention explores how collective sound can bring people together, create shared attention and connect people.
Credits: Public Attention – Roman Tkachenko in collaboration with Goya van der Heyden and Anllel Maria
Intro in Situ is a production company for pioneers in sound and music and presents a number of talented artists every year at Cultura Nova.
