RainZonanceS3 - Project Room#2

A Soundscape Installation Art Project by Antonis Antoniou - Melita Couta, Harris Kafkarides (PARAVAN)

RainZonances3 is taking over the main exhibition gallery of NIMAC. The artists Antonis Antoniou and Paravan (Melita Couta and Haris Kafkarides) will collaborate to build an installation which will present three basic elements, a soundscape environment, a platform / stage area (both in the metaphorical sense and actual) and a series of parallel events with invited artists.

Interested by our experiences of urban spaces, that being their identity, history, social activity, physical boundaries, interaction systems and behaviour rules, the artists will transfer and reconstruct those experiences in the NIMAC. These urban situations will not just go through a simple documentation and reconstruction but they will be recreated in such a way that they will present a new perspective, an altered reality, a meta-situation from our established knowledge of their existence. The audience is invited to use their senses in a more balanced way and to break away from the prevailing sense of vision. As Canadian R. Murray Schafer (researcher of soundscapes and creator of the specific field of study) points out, there is a need, especially by westerners, to ‘clean’ the sense of hearing (‘clairaudience’) and to free it from the limiting monopoly of vision. Moreover, isolating the sense of hearing from that of vision is a way of defeating the mechanism that, according to composer Bill Fontana, listening is tightly correlated to visual cues.

More specifically the artists chose five public spaces with strong characteristic environments in order to transfer the sound environment that derives from those spaces into the gallery in real time. Detaching an acoustic or any other environment from its original source, and displaying it into another (i.e. arts space), produces multiple effects, perspectives and dynamics such as dislocation, a highlighted condition worth to be observed, memory engaging, major contrasts in aural architecture principles, subconscious triggerings, educational etc. The sound will "fill up" the space through a surround system/speaker matrix, thus challenging the void of the gallery's architecture by materialising in space and creating an "invisible scenography".

Rainzonances3 is aiming to be a platform, which continuously changes and transforms. Every week a special event will take place with the participation of invited artists who will be asked to interpret in their own way and react to the thematic space of the soundscape as well as to the installations in space.

Saturday 3 July - 14.00
Theme: “Vegetables and retail konfouzio”
Invited artist: Phanos Kyriakou

Tuesday 13 July - 21.00
Theme: “Troullos and psalm ambience”
Invited artist: George Ioannou

Tuesday 20 July - 21.00
Theme: “Auto - citizens”
Invited artists: Ariana Alphas and Pascal Caron
Performance: Saturday 24 July - 21.00

Tuesday 27 July - 21.00
Theme: “With a naked ear”
Invited artists: Constantinos Evangelides,
Colin Somervell, Lefteris Μoumtzis, Euripides Dikaios

Friday 30 July - 21.00
Theme: “Groovy party time”

Opening Hours
Tuesday - Saturday: 10:00-15:00 & 17:00-23:00