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Locatie:KADOC (Grote Kapel), Vlamingenstraat 39
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Accessibility:This location is wheelchair accessible.
The installations of the French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot are minimalist investigations into sound and space, often fostering altered perceptual states of suspension and meditation. In clinamen, floating white porcelain bowls slowly circulate in a sunken pool, moved by a hidden pump. The sounds of the collisions produce a percussive soundscape of unexpected musicality, while their movement is a mesmerizing invitation to contemplation. Boursier-Mougenot’s large-scale installations often bring together natural and manufactured elements, such as zebra finches and amplified electric guitars in his emblematic work From Here To Ear. Similarly, in clinamen, the artist combines a composed structure with the indeterminacy of bowls floating around in a random, unpredictable manner, depending on the shape and size of the pool, the temperature and speed of the water. Previous iterations of clinamen have been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou-Metz and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. For Hear Here, Boursier-Mougenot and STUK have built a new version designed especially for the round KADOC Chapel.
2012 — ongoing
Water pump, liner, 80 white porcelain bowls
Courtesy the artist & Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Special thanks to: KADOC, KU Leuven & Dienst Cultuur KU Leuven