Zvuky Prahy / Sounds of Prague

terénní nahrávky, zvukové umění, rádio, zvukové procházky
field recordings, sound art, radio, sound walks

DOX Center for Contemporary Art in Holešovice

Creator: alexander (Alexander Honzák)
Submitted: 2009-05-18
Recorded: 2009-04-22
Licence: Creative Commons Licence
Download: 090515222249.mp3

Lecture of an art historian at the Center DOX in Holešovice. He was holding a talk about the rite de passage in the work of two artists exhibiting there. His tempo was merciless and listeners could barely catch some words and meaning. By merging two sound tracks, the result reminds me the extatic oraculum of a schaman, which connects the issue of the talk and the form in the dialectic unity.Actually on the website of DOX one can read:“Today, when more and more people tend to think dangerously alike, art’s capacity to suspend, even for a moment, our habitual ways of seeing may be its greatest value”.