BOJAN GAGIĆ / MIODRAG GLADOVIĆ (HR): LUMINOACOUSTICS
26.9. ● 20:00-24:00h ● Oktogon ● Nuit Blanche*
On the occasion of Nuit Blanche, a sleepless night of contemporary art organized by Rendez-vous, festival of France in Croatia, Croatian artists Miodrag Gladović and Bojan Gagić will hold a workshop of luminoacoustics, a performance technique based on the conversion of light into sound through the photovoltaic effect of solar panels. The workshop will result in an artistic intervention: using the technique of luminoacoustics, the artists and the participants will devise imaginative ways of intervening in the public space of Octogon, a well-known Zagreb passage.
Oktogon will become a polygon for a subtle game of light and sound. The basic idea is minimalistic: at first sight the space will seem the same, but it will actually be expanded or augmented by the usage of light generating sound untypical for that space. The subtle intervention will occasionally take the form of a short performance – an intensive play of lights – after which it will get quiet again, covertly teasing the passers-by.
Miodrag Gladovic, Bojan Gagic
INTERVIEW with Miodrag Gladovic
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR LUMINOACOUSTICS TO A RANDOM PASSER-BY?
Where I’m sitting now, under these lights, there’s sound, but we cannot perceive it. And then you put a solar panel, it transforms light into sound and you become aware of the fact that sound has been present the whole time, you were just not able to perceive it.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS FORM TO TALK ABOUT REALITY?
Well, engaging with sound was a logical step after engaging with music. I can fully express myself through sound, but that doesn’t mean that I use this form to talk about reality?! And I am always interested in new ways of producing sound and enabling the perception of sound in the situations in which human ear needs to be helped by technology in order to perceive it. Regardless of the simultaneous overlap of different media, I think that the ultimate goal of luminoacoustics is sound. Everyhing else (lights, video…) is, in fact, means for creating sound. Visual inscentive for sonorous/sound result.
WHY SHOULD WE, AS AUDIENCE, CARE ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE DOING?
My unchanging goal is to transfer the feeling that I have when I create something – to the other person, the audience. It’s generally a really good feeling. Why not try?
IF YOU HAD ANY MEANS AVAILABLE (‘IDEAL WORLD SITUATION’) WHAT KIND OF PROJECT WOULD YOU DO?
Solar eclipse at Zadar seafront. Also luminoacoustics. I would create a diversion by setting up solar panels at the „Sun Salutation,“ which would immediately be heard as a very loud and strenuous sound on the speakers. I would have a large graphics, the diameter of the Sun, rolled in a carpet.The whole performance would consist of unrolling the graphics – some kind of bizzare moon – along the Sun, which would be slowly getting obscured. Simultaneously, I would reduce the sound to silence, and at the end, only sea organ would be heard. I’d really like to do that.
WHAT THREE THINGS NEVER FAIL TO BRING YOU PLEASURE?
Why are you asking me this? The first thought is: my children.
I always feel satisfied when I imagine some kind of project that even to me sounds impossible, and when it comes true. Sometimes it turns out even better than what I imagined. I feel really happy then.
Lightune.G: Lighterature No.5 from Bojan Gagic on Vimeo.
BIOGRAPHIES
Bojan Gagić is a multimedia artist, lighting and sound designer. Miodrag Gladović is an electroacoustic engineer, a musician and a producer. They were awarded third prize in the prestigious Margaret Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition in Atlanta in 2012 for their work on the development of luminoacoustics.
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* Događanje organizirano u okviru manifestacije Rendez-vous, festival Francuske u Hrvatskoj (www.rendez-vous.hr).
