Je d'espace - Gaëtan Rusquet

Je d’espace

digital art — Installation — Performance — sound experiment — 2009

Je d'espace is a sound installation - sometimes performed - which dematerialize reality to the sight through a physical device that, with the use of sub-bass and it's mecanical effect(the vibration), transforms the limits of the matter.

In a dark room, at the center of the space is a four-sided column made of one way mirrors, echoing the shape of the space, this column can contain a body. Inside the column is a bass box. The bass box only produces sub-bass sounds. Those sounds are varying according to the position of the spectactors and the distance between them and the central column. The reflection on its surface changes shape depending on the vibrations. For the last presentations, Gaëtan Rusquet was standing inside the volume while changing the sound parameters as to establish a sort of dialog with the audience.

The installation exists through the gaze and movements of the spectators. It also exists for its own sake because of the dialogue and responses it provokes. Using physical devices, The installation overcomes our senses and questions our cognitive understanding of reality through vibration.

CREDITS

Concept: Gaëtan Rusquet with the support of the theater la Balsamine in Brussels, Les laboréales in Brussels & Mons, LARAS (the Arts & Sciences Research Lab High Engineering Institute) in Brussels, and the CECN (Center for the Contemporary and Digital Writing's).

SHOWS

05.2009 - Danse Balsa-Marni Festival, brussels(BE)

05.2011 - Les laboréales, Maison Folie, mons(BE)

05.2011 - Les laboréales, House of Performing Arts la Bellone, Brussels(BE)