SHO(U)T

The point of departure for this exhibition is a new interactive installation by Vincent Elka: SHO(U)T. SHO(U)T reacts to the different emotional layers of the human voice, which results in an interaction between man and machine. The verbal accumulation in the physical space can, in Elka’s words, be regarded as an emotional Esperanto, a language that everyone feels, speaks, and understands.
The installation resonates in a further selection of artists who examine the relationship to authority, how to deal with and react to it. The work Zalgiris by the young Lithuanian Ugnius Gelguda refers to a renowned pitched battle, and thus to one of the reference points in the nation’s memory. Gelguda reacts against the mechanisms and machinations of the collective. Gal Kinan uses the militaristic, patriarchal tradition of Israeli culture as his point of departure, in order to examine the relationship between the individual and the state by means of kinetic objects and drawings. The computer-controlled objects of Rob Zimmermann in turn investigate the relationship between technology and human nature, between mechanised actions and the function of rituals as an organising framework. In the space of a few years, the brothers Simon and Tom Bloor have developed an oeuvre in which their interest in social radicals is the connecting theme.