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Cerith Wyn Evans & Florian Hecker:
No night No day

Yet, in the tradition of performative productions, Wyn Evans and Hecker work on visualizing, proposing, testing and expanding the medium’s possible present and past image(s), revisiting some of the radical innovations, which happened in music, dance, art and acoustics in the past fifty years. Though accepting the space’s inherent parameters, they propose to examine and experiment with the diversely coded visual and auditory layers of performative and spatial expressions, offered through the used referential materials. From Japanese Bunraku and Noh theatre, passing through the films of Peter Gidal (No Night No Day, 1997), Kenneth Anger (Rabbit’s Moon, 1950) and Guy Debord (Hurlements en faveur de Sade, 1950); the structural sonic conceptions within Iannis Xenakis’ S.709 as well as Herbert Brün’s Dust, Jens Blauert's The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization and the auditory Gestalt phenomena as described by Albert Bregman. Integral to the work is the simultaneous and constant revelation of certain production mechanics such as of the stage, the performance and the performer-audience relationships. It is this very screen where the major principles or rules of perceptual organization of the interweaving structural elements apply to both, vision and hearing.

ARTISTS: Cerith Wyn Evans, Florian Hecker

Produced by Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary for the 53rd International Art Exhibition / La Biennale di Venezia
Fare Mondi // Making Worlds, curated by Daniel Birnbaum
Duration of the Biennale: June 7 - November 22, 2009

GALA PREMIERE of No night No day:
Thursday, 4 June 2009, at 8:00 pm
ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES
Friday, 5 June and Saturday, 6 June, at 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm
free admission (limited to Biennale preview-card holders and subject to seat availability)

LOCATION: Teatro Goldoni, Venice