The Sculpture Sinks, Thinks, Sings occurs within an architecture that disrupts Bergen's urban landscape temporarily: one of the cruise ships docks in the city's harbour.
Through a blend of words, sounds, objects, recordings and artifacts, the audience is invited to experience a reiteration of the artists' voices amidst this maritime, disruptive setting, evoking a sense of double disturbance, parasitism, parallel frequencies or possible shadows.
Cascella and Hurth invite aboard MS Nord Norge on Saturday, September 3rd for a conversation in three gestures. The conversation revolves around the materiality in their writing, where elements such as surface, voice use, disturbance, resonance and shadow are central. By channeling the voices and presence of Clarice Lispector, Roberto Calasso, Pauline Oliveros, Agnes Martin and Robert Ashley into their own movements and accents, the artists impose sonic demands on the material leading to a form of disappearance of the material.
The Sculptor Sinks, Thinks, Sings is the first public outcome of the LYD Writing Research Residency that Cascella and Hurth undertook in 2015/2016. The residencies were initiated by Cascella in 2015 with the aim of exploring a number of intersections and interactions that may occur between listening, reading, writing, translating, recording, silencing, conversing, with focus on performative and collaborative approaches and with emphasis on discursive and reflexive aspects.
Commissioned by Lydgalleriet.