8ight, INFINITE LOOP

  • Klangkunst / Sound Art
  • Installation / Ausstellung

OPENING - group exhibition

Fri, 31.01.2025, 18:00 - 21:00 | PROJEKTRAUM Kunstquartier Bethanien

8ight, INFINITE LOOP - 01.-04.02.2025 PROJEKTRAUM, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin OPENING 31.01.2025, 18h
© 8ight, INFINITE LOOP - 01.-04.02.2025 PROJEKTRAUM, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin OPENING 31.01.2025, 18h

8ight Infinite Loop

The exhibition unites works by eight artists who have previously presented individual installations at frei-raum.berlin, each piece reflecting the central themes of systems and infinity through the progressive growth of acoustic sources.

The works span from Daria Redkina's "Air'Finite," where weather balloons transform into musical instruments through electro-mechanical systems, making air audible through breathing sounds and reed vibrations, to mergrim's "51.428571428571429," born from mathematical imperfection. Here, seven speakers arranged in a circle emit a loop every 5.14 seconds, producing an ever-evolving sonic landscape. This mathematical approach converges with Cem Çakmak's "Beating Variations, 60-80Hz," where you physically experience bass frequencies through two modified floor panels, becoming part of the wave patterns generated through acoustic interference.

The concept of cycles unfolds in Varoujan Chetirian's "The Distance Between" for five sound sources, where sound journeys through space and time. Echoes and reverberations bridge past and present, while archival voices and current field recordings from a decaying Armenian space center permeate the room. The Acoustic Heritage Collective's "Notes on Narrow Backroads" weaves a spatial narrative inspired by *Matsuo Basho's* travel writings through six sound sources. The installation creates a polyphonic landscape that shifts with every movement in the space.

In "Bells and Cannons," Özcan Ertek presents three large brass discs resonating with field recordings of church bells and cannon shots in endless sonic cycles. This rhythmic installation dialogues with "Diaphonie_K∞" by Ernesto Longobardi and Anna Turina, where two Kodak Carousel projectors generate perpetual Red Yellow Blue (RYB) sound patterns, creating an ever-recurring choreography of light and shadow. Ani Samperi's "Tears of Ice": an experiential process where water drips from melting ice in an inverted oil barrel onto a silver platter, manifesting transience through resonance and feedback.

United in the Projektraum Kunstquartier Bethanien, these works will form an environment where each piece contributes to a larger system of meaning. The exhibition structure itself shall become a metaphor for infinity - not as an abstract concept, but as a tangible experience of cyclical processes, systemic interactions, and perpetual transformation.

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ARTISTS
#1: TEARS OF ICE by Ani Samperi (US)
#2: BEATING VARIATIONS, 60-80Hz by Cem Çakmak (TR)
#3: BELLS AND CANNONS by Özcan Ertek (TR)
#4: DIAPHONIE_K∞ by Ernesto Longobardi (IT), Anna Turina (IT)
#5: THE DISTANCE BETWEEN by Varoujan Chetirian (CH)
#6: NOTES ON NARROW BACKROADS by Acoustic Heritage Collective (ES/DE)
#7: 51.428571428571429 by mergrim / Takahisa Mitsumori (JP)
#8: Air'Finite by Daria Redkine (UA)

Information

Location:
  • PROJEKTRAUM Kunstquartier Bethanien
Time:
  • Fri, 31.01.2025, 18:00 - 21:00
  • Break:
  • Ground floor, on the right:
    Projektraum, Kunstquartier Bethanien | Mariannenplatz 2 | 10997 Berlin
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