Omnivoyeur and Electrical Walks Bangkok Electromagnetic Sound and Visual Project

12.03.2018

Sub-Series

39 pictures

Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

Christina Kubisch

Event Date: 01 April – 04 September 2016
Location: Main Gallery, 7th floor
Curated by Pichaya Aime Suphavanij, BACC Head of Exhibitions, the project consisted of two components; the first part is an electromagnetic walk of Christina Kubisch guiding audience through city with a map and custom-made headphone catching magnetic sound that are inaudible to naked ears, and the second part is the installation of field-recorded images of Miti Ruangkritya providing a reflexive urban context. The installation of images will be synaestheticized with sound recomposed by Christina Kubisch in which the audience could activate via audio-guide to audibly move about crafting their own listening and seeing experience in the exhibition space.
The juxtaposition of Christina Kubisch’s electromagnetic audio piece and Miti Ruangkritya’s visual language proposes a trans-media narrative that becomes alternative perceptions to our urban ritual of street walking in Bangkok. It accentuates the presence of media through the art of sound as well as the profound context forming contrapuntal aspects to experience the city. The works prolong perceptibility of the audience to mark the omnipresent of media in our increasingly technological environment. Hence, the title Omnivoyeur, a psychoanalytical concept “ I see the world but I am looked at from all sides” by Jacques Lacan, the project offers a reverse in action through the artworks where the audience is encouraged to become more instrumental in perceiving both politics and poetic of media hidden in their urban everyday surrounding.

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