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Galerie Ecart

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5 Responses to “Galerie Ecart”

  1.    Casey Says:
    February 18th, 2008 at 7:41 am

    I haven’t been able to find a lot of information about the Galerie Ecart, but from what I have found it seems to be a group that works with sound, not visual, or video art. The different performances listed on Close Radio, Evidence of Movement, are very different. Some feature conversations of people, others are “collages of noise,” and others are recordings of rowing a boat, or riding a motorcycle. I am just now being exposed to video art and am still confused and amazed by it, so now imagining sound art, art without images, is really making me think about what art is. Obviously, it isn’t just something that is made for others to see. I think it is very exciting that it can take on so many different forms. I would really like to be able to hear what the Galerie Ecart is doing, as long as it is not only in French.

  2.    Chard Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 11:10 am

    While I have to agree with Casey on the lack of substantial information on the Galerie Ecart (this blog being in the top 5 search results) I begin to imagine what the radio broadcasts were like. The .pdf file provides the briefest of descriptions and for the most part I can “hear” what the audio could have sounded like. I imagine this monotone voice reading Endre Tót’s “I Am Glad if I Can Say a Sentence One After the Other” (#49 on the list) and for the orchestra of cars, I have heard cars before, I can imagine the slamming of doors or the blaring of horns. While I find the titles or works clever, I am not particularly interested in them as works of art, possibly because I cannot experience them as the artists intended. I think these works are a great example of how artworks change when they are viewed/experienced through a filter (TV, internet, magazines,…).

    Personally, I find some of the works(or at least their titles and descriptions) to be amazingly clever but I wonder if hearing them would weaken the effect.

  3.    Kaitlyn Says:
    February 21st, 2008 at 7:53 am

    I am not sure how I feel about the whole “sound art” business. Why all of a sudden makes the sounds of cars so special? We all hear them everyday and it’s not like this video art puts them in a new light, or gives the viewer and alternate way of viewing them. Instead we go from hearing cars outside, to hearing cars inside on our radio. Many people are annoyed by some of these sounds and now it is “art.” I also do not like how we were just blogging about the Dream video art and how it brings the viewer to a whole new, deeper level and now is this noise. I think I just do not find it to be “fair” to call them both artists, when all one is doing is capturing noise from around town.

  4.    Isabel Says:
    February 22nd, 2008 at 7:02 pm

    Definitely this exhibition is completely different to me, in reference to art. It is fascinating how sound makes us engage, in what is being presented to us, very differently than visual elements. Sound makes us use other parts of our brain in analyzing things. I think that this approach to art is different and I think it is part of what the Fluxus movement in which everything is valid in art-making.

  5.    Elcorin Says:
    July 9th, 2009 at 6:02 am

    Everything dynamic and very positively! :)

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