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October 2016
LOVE SONG @ Artarea Gallery (Tbilisi, Georgia) |
Love Song is a large accumulation. Four Belgian organizations selected 1000 artists, composers, musicians and writers from around the world, and send each of them by mail a compact recording device. Those artists make a recording of their ‘love song’ on the small recorder and send the device back. Each of them also have a few additional mechanisms, which they can send to other artists.
If the universality of the love song is the key to its popularity, and that popularity leads to his huge spread, will there be anything left of its meaning and impact? What is a love song? Whom does it affect, and for whom it is intended? Wherein lies its affect? For the answers, or at least the experience of those questions, the uniformity of our device offers an egalitarian product that allows a collective diversity of interpretations, a Litmus test. |
This diversity even enlarges by the decentralized and rhizomatic selection procedure that connects disparate networks. And all this within a remarkable economy: the cheap devices function double – as recording and as performance. Place and time are no obstacle because we only work by post routes and directories.
Although they only contain a recording, the compact devices are picked up and held against the ear, an intimate proximity. Pressing ‘play’ on the little machine offers the listener an evocation of the performance of the author. One-to-one, individually picked up from the noise of many. From the hundreds recordings, every message can be filtered out by itself. How close does this stay – or how far does it drift apart from the idea of a love song, interpreted by hundreds unique perspectives?
Although they only contain a recording, the compact devices are picked up and held against the ear, an intimate proximity. Pressing ‘play’ on the little machine offers the listener an evocation of the performance of the author. One-to-one, individually picked up from the noise of many. From the hundreds recordings, every message can be filtered out by itself. How close does this stay – or how far does it drift apart from the idea of a love song, interpreted by hundreds unique perspectives?
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Concept: Serge Verstockt
Production: ChampdAction |
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