A Land Unknown (Providence)

Site-specific art installation by Cyrill Lim & Marcel Zaes

Lim & Zaes' installation brings together various visual, tactile, auditory and man-made phenomena, all of which unfold on and around the surfaces of the materials on display. The works are sculptural, yet serve as placeholders for what is missing. They open themselves up to the visitor's actual and imaginative perception. In a sense, these works can be uncharted territory for both the artists and the visitors.
[video]https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/eyizcdphi2ml8o5vtybcw/ALU_combined-with-titles-small.mp4?rlkey=sr0xhoypqf7gpscgrpv34yb82&raw=1#t=1[/video] [video]https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o3z1l90cvc0sparaa6gy6/ALU-editing-v2-with-titles-small.mp4?rlkey=sq56c8ugpsypdgee6id0badbj&raw=1#t=1[/video] A Land Unknown is an installation consisting of three works, one visual-auditory, one purely visual and one Cahier d'Artistes, although not all three works have to be shown together and each work stands alone. In the installation, however, they all refer to each other.
The visual-auditory work consists of identical rectangular surfaces, for example made of paper, plaster or cardboard, which are arranged or defined in relation to each other in the room. They are equipped with a loudspeaker, amplifier and audio player. The audio files are recordings of a performance in which the material on which the sound is played is stroked across the surface with a circular gesture, using the hand in a fixed rhythm and in a fixed form. This 13-minute action is recorded for each material and played back via the loudspeaker over the same material. Depending on the space and material, the arrangement of the rectangles can change daily.

The purely visual work consists of rectangles of the same format made of different materials with a specific surface structure. This surface structure is filmed and projected onto itself using a projector. Slight shifts in the light and the movement of the video create an unstable, three-dimensional new surface.

The Cahier d'Artistes consists of pencil drawings that capture the ideas of the work and the artists in an abstract form as a kind of input for visitors. It also includes texts by author and art critic Nora Kahn.

Exhibited Jan/Feb 2020 at the Granoff Centre, Providence, RI.
Supported by the Brown Arts Initiative and the Canton of Zug

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