Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water
Oliver Beer – Resonance Project: The Cave, 2024
2024
HD 8-screen immersive video and sound installation
Venue
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Metropolitan area
Born in 1985 in Pembury, United Kingdom
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom and Paris, France
Since 2007, composer and multidisciplinary artist Oliver Beer has explored acoustic resonance through The Resonance Project. This series integrates voice, body, and architecture in compositions designed to reveal and amplify the natural resonant frequencies of diverse locations, from a hammam in Istanbul to the Centre Pompidou’s tubular walkways.
Oliver Beer was granted exceptional access to the Palaeolithic caves of the Dordogne, known for some of humanity’s earliest artworks, where he discovered a connection between the cave paintings and the site’s acoustics. Composed in and for the Font-de-Gaume cave, Resonance Project: The Cave features eight performers — Jean-Christophe Brizard, eee gee, Mélissa Laveaux, Mo’Ju, Hamed Sinno, Michiko Takahashi, Rufus Wainwright, and Woodkid — who sing their earliest musical memory. As an immersive experience, the eight-screen video installation invites viewers to experience the cave’s unique acoustic environment and the musical heritage that spans time and cultures. In a tunnel beneath the exhibition space, Beer presents his Resonance Paintings, created by moving pigment with sound waves, without any direct contact with the canvas. These paintings, shaped by the vibrations of the singers’ voices, reveal abstract forms that normally remain invisible and that fill the air in the cave.
Duration : 30 minutes – The video starts every hour on the hour, and every half-hour
Co-production by Oliver Beer and Anna Lena Films / Florence Cohen
With the support of Fluxus Art Projects, Mondes Nouveaux and the Ministère de la Culture, Centre des monuments nationaux, Fondation des Artistes, French Embassy in Australia and the galleries Thaddaeus Ropac and Almine Rech
Courtesy of the artist, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery and Almine Rech gallery
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