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Salt-Sculpting
Salt-Sculpting
ohrenhoch presents on Sunday 4 and 11 January 2015, 2pm - 9pm:
Salt-Sculpting
(A Tribute to Max Eastley)
by Martyna Pozna?ska
Curator: Knut Remond
Martyna Pozna?ska on 'Salt-Sculpting':
Salt plays several different roles on the earth, in nature and in human life.
It can be a powerful destructor or a preservation aid, a savior, or a cure.
The glass tube contains the salt solution. The motor vibrates the string creating a drone. While the water evaporates throughout the days, the string gradually becomes a skeleton for the salt crystals to grow all over it.
This sound installation explores the process of transformation and change of the state of matter.
Allowing the liquid to evaporate from the salt solution, the growth of the salt crystals is enabled.?What seems to appear as dying/decaying is actually just a process of transformation into a new form. The salt elements gain their bodily presence. The particles previously convoluted individually in the solution, now intertwine strongly with each other creating a new force in the unity of the crystals.
The Salt-sculpting installation has been re-created in response to ohrenhoch-der Gerauschladen theme of the year 2015 - sound activism. The process of transformation enabled within the installation serves as a micro-scale observatory in which the visitor not only observes but also influences the process. Presence of the body in the space, every breath, movement or sound triggers a mutual exchange, contributes to the process of salt-sculpting. The change is not instantaneous or sudden it remains in the growth, it needs the right amount of time, it needs the right conditions. It is not spectacular but it emerges gradually. It leads us to the origins of the act of participation (lat. participare - to take part) and being in the world. In contrast the simultaneous solidification and fracture of personal and collective identity, and the advance of technology and bureaucracy combined with an increasing philosophical skepticism towards truth and subjectivity we experience nowadays.
The Salt - Sculpting is a combination of the fragility of sound and the strength of the crystal. It reflects upon power and vulnerability, gain and loss. It's an introduction to the poetics of change.
Special thanks to: Kris Poznanski, Jakob Motter, Dirk Zozmann, Hans Peter Kuhn, Peter Cusack, Ecki Guether and Thomas Eisl .
Martyna Pozna?ska is an artist who works with sound, image and performance. Her research focuses upon performative noise reduction, industrial and urban atmospheres (field recordings practice). In her installations she investigates the themes of remembering and forgetting, growth, decay and tranformation.
She studied voice at the Laboratory of Olga Szwajgier and Sound Art at The University of the Arts London. Currently she's a student of MA Sound Studies at the University of The Arts Berlin.
Commissions include Spor Festival 2013 (Dk), AudioArt Festival 2012 (Pl) and dance sound-scores for The Place (London), Dam Van Huynh Company. She has also shown her works at the ORF Graz (Au), ohrenhoch-der Gerauschladen in Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin.
In 2013 she was the recipient of a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture.
She lives and works in Berlin and London.
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