[ GUNST ]

soothing olours
radia #403: don't panic + radia #260: the village is quiet
[pls. scroll down for english version]

eine farbtherapie der besonderen art. denn letztlich funktioniert sie über raum und klang.
wie das geht, zeigt zunächst chris farmer, der in seiner performance "don't panic" die harmonie der urbanen landschaft zunächst in zeichnungen und dann in klänge transformiert.

im anschluss wird das prinzip in einer ausstellung mit aquarellen des australischen künstlers patrick hartigan fortgeführt.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten

[english]

a very special colour therapy. for in the end, space and colour are its tools.
but how does this work?

"A live perfomance by Chris Farmer in the Radio Panik studio, based on a previous work he did a few months ago for a german galery (Expo Berlin). The work he did in Berlin resulted in an improvised performance which was an electronic, harmonic and visual echo of the surrounding urban space. In Brussels, Chris Farmer proposed to the Radio Panik listeners to recreate the poetic and harmonic experience of that particular urban landscape, which he recorded and translated with his sound recorder and coloured pencils." [R.P.]

find out more about chris farmer's work at chris-farmer.hotglue.me

afterwards, we listen to the water colours australian artist patrick hartigan has drawn from quiet villages:

"Australian artist Patrick Hartigan exhibited a series of water colours in 2009 entitled 'The Village is Quiet' – a show which was complemented by the publication of a series of short stories and a limited release dvd under the same title. Producer g.bert invited Hartigan to record a reading of a selection of the stories as a gesture toward a continued multiplication of media in Hartigan's work through (and despite) which the 'village remains quiet'.
Hartigan's facility in isolating and expressing the subtleties and idiosyncracies of the simple everyday life of an unnamed contemporary Slovakian village in fact borders on a mythical expression – a kind of singular exemplarity. Littered as his work is with post-soviet remnants (the public address system that still 'broadcasts' via loudspeakers, for example) and the consequences of EU expansion (the evident desertion of youth), Hartigan's village and its eloquent quietude speaks a kind of obscure generality (seen, as it is, through the eyes of an antipodean outsider finding feet and language in the village's almost empty streets and homes)." [S.M.]

credits:
miss.gunst would like to thank the following artists and sound collectors:
jovica for the space machine, corsica s for some beautiful radiator sounds;
chris farmer and radio panik, brussels, for a colourful urban landscape;
partick hartigan and radio one 91fm, dunedin/new zealand, for audible water colours from a quiet village;
as well as radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.

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