Almost unsellable, yet very expensive, space-specific and space-consuming: sound-based art is still classic avant-garde, welcome to an audit, a new discovery or just another group exhibition that resists its own format.
The term avant-garde is taken from the military: the vanguard. Being part of the vanguard is about foresight and tactics at the same time: a state of perceiving synchronously the alienated and familiar. In an artistic context the term is used condescending or exalted, referring to deep hate or love, and it is here sound art fits in.
It is ten years since Lydgalleriet showed the group exhibition Zuper Klassik Freaky Avant Garde, where the starting point was to experiment with the noisy characteristics of sound art and the impossibility of curating an exhibition consisting of many sound-based art works. In response to the quotation 'in the face of the Art, Silence is the only possible response', an exhibition was curated by people in Lydgalleriet's extended repertoire, with the idea that sound art was the freak of the art field.
There will be a special event with Blue Rinse on the opening night (April 5th) with live acts by Giuseppe Pisano, Mariam Gviniashvili, Adivan (Ida Nerbø and Ivan Paulsen) and Arthur Hureau.
Curated by Admir Korjenic and Julie Lillelien Porter.