FLORIAN HECKER | Various Videos
—Event, Stream, Object— introduces a new dimension to the art of sound. An intersection of space, sound, and sophisticated technology, the exhibit uses a Meyer Sound system to challenge one’s ability to “describe what we hear, when, where and from whom it is heard.” An installation at MMK, Frankfurt’s museum of modern art, which commissioned the exhibit
Footage from Florian Hecker’s installation at Sadie Coles HQ gallery in London (14 October to 22 November 2008). Comprised of two compositions broadcast through separate, custom made loudspeaker sets, Pentaphonic Dark Energy sets out “to manipulate psychoacoustic effects in order to distort and shift spatial perception”, building upon his previous musical work and artistic collaborations.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, committed to commissioning and the production of unconventional contemporary art projects, is contributing two new provocative works to Fare Mondi // Making Worlds, the official exhibition of the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, curated by Daniel Birnbaum. No night No day, an abstract opera by Cerith Wyn Evans and Florian Hecker is performed off site on three nights only (June 46) at the Teatro Goldoni.