Dear Rohrpostler,
it is my pleasure to invite you to the presentation of my recent work
(collaboration with Fabian Bleisch) "Edison" at DOCK 11 Theatre.
Friday, March 7th - Saturday, March 8th: 3:00 - 10:00 pm
Sunday, March 9th: 1:00 - 8:00 pm
Free Entrance
DOCK 11
Theater
Kastanienallee 79
10435 Berlin
Best regards,
Sibin Vassilev
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EDISON, 2013
Sound-light installation
Length: 09:40 min
Variable dimensions: between H 4.90 m x W 5 m and H 5.50 m x W 7.50 m
48 light bulbs, glass, 7 loud-speakers, cables, 2 computers, light and sound
patches
In the installation Edison (2013), more than a century after the mass
distribution of electric light bulbs, Sibin Vassilev and Fabian Bleisch explore
once more the controversial links between politics, ideology and industry.
Using light, different sounds, and voices, they create an installation that is
about the topical issue of replacing the old electric bulbs by energy-efficient
light bulbs.
In the installation light bulbs hanging from the domed space light up and go
out, thus forming ever changing, abstract rhythmic constellations. As the
visitors walk among them, sounds and voices can be heard coming from different
directions. The sound composition is particularly dramaturgic and rather
staged: there are various sounds being heard, they stop, or flow into music. A
recorded voice switches on, and we recognize an expert commenting on the issue…
The work relies as much on the verbal communication to the viewer as on the
associative one. The sounds bring the viewers back to the mechanical era of the
industrializing society and then into the present again while documenting and
referring to the “language” of radio and television broadcasts.
The installation by Sibin Vassilev and Fabian Bleisch is a work as much about
the real harm of energy-saving light bulbs as it is about the market that has
become a factor regulating our conditions of living and ruling the actual
political choices. While resembling a “documentary” theatre of lights, voices
and sounds the work manages to stimulate an emotional and critical distance of
the viewers. In a rather Brechtian approach the artists further distance
politics from its actuality into a different but also political realm such as
the theater or the exhibition space.
Excerpts from a text by Vladiya Mihaylova
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