{"id":2386,"date":"2018-04-17T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T21:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.kim.lv\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2019-01-14T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:56:30","slug":"indrikis-gelzis-blind-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/en\/indrikis-gelzis-blind-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis &#8220;Blind sounds&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"&#8221;I had not met my friend Vasiliy Voronov for several months, therefore our first conversation after his return from the very musical city of Saint Petersburg, which took place as we sat down on a bench at the park next to the Academy of Arts, started as an exchange of information between two spies from the \u201cart industry\u201d. I was telling him about the new staging at our National Theatre by the Russian director Kiril Serebrennikov and was rather ironically referring to his idea to relocate the play \u201cVoiceks\u201d to an art gallery that displays three urinals serving as a reference to \u2018contemporary art\u2019. I sneered at the fact that it would soon be almost a century since the readymades of Duchamp, and that theatre that would claim to be something more than just a reproduction of tradition, should show a more thorough understanding of art. Vasiliy noted that I tend to be too keen on generalizations, while I eagerly went on about art, theatre and music \u2018in general\u2019, saying that the coming of music into art has been fruitful partly due to performance and video, and the use of art in music largely being done for illustrative purposes. Whereas theatre, unless it acts \u2018in the mode of stage frame destruction\u2019, reproduces trivial, even banal notions about art. In the same breath I added that literature usually is not any better, which is testified by the \u2018old-fashioned\u2019 paintings, which are painted or even just contemplated by the protagonist in the world of Hemingway\u2019s novel \u201cIslands in the Stream\u201d Thomas Hudson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Philosopher J\u0101nis Taurens in April 16, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blind sounds consist of four videos that form a united exposition. Three musicians are placed into three different music instruments \u2013 accordion, piano and drums \u2013 and are playing them. Opposite to the projections is shown the forth video that displays a conductor. A visible image and an audible sound are two different perceptions. The image falls silent when the ears are shut; the sound gets blind when the eyes are closed. Moreover, we are not capable to see the sound of the image and to hear how it looks. It seems that one is not aware about the existence of another.<\/p>\n<span class=\"indent\"><\/span>The blind sound does not show the end, the mum image does not reveal it. When the sound of accordion dies away, all that remains, is a mute frame \u2013 it can\u2019t express anything about the sound\u2019s ending or the location of it.<\/p>\n<span class=\"indent\"><\/span>It seems that one must stay outside these phenomena since the audible sound does not arrive from the visible image, and that is why it is so important not to lose the inner figure of the conductor and to move the blind sound silently back on the right track.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis<\/span> is a video artist. He has participated in several group shows in Germany, Netherlands, France etc. Recent exhibitions include solo show \u201cLost in eyeshot\u201d (C\u0113sis, summer 2012); exhibition \u201cRecognize the opponent\u201d (Zwolle, Netherlands, Beelbuis Filmfestival); Latvian video art evening in Saint-Ouen, France.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;I had not met my friend Vasiliy Voronov for several months, therefore our first conversation after his return from the very musical city of Saint Petersburg, which took place as we sat down on a bench at the park next to the Academy of Arts, started as an exchange of information between two spies from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29","category-kim-exhibitions","category-past-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis &quot;Blind sounds&quot; - Kim? 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