Audio
Without Us is an audio installation which stretches the restriction of the ‘now’ and takes the listener into the same room in another time. The work allows the listeners to witness what has already happened and is yet to happen here without us.
Context
“Without Us was first created in the ‘Tearoom’ of KANAL-Centre Pompidou. The museum was allowed to open its doors, but the Tearoom remained closed due to Covid-19. The abandoned Tearoom looked like an art installation within the museum, a piece that served as a reminder of ‘the café’. At that time, cafés and restaurants had been closed for months in Brussels, and it was forbidden to sit at any of the Tearoom’s tables, though they were still there. I replaced the existing QR codes from the Tearoom’s menu with QR codes for the audio work, allowing visitors to listen to the piece on their smartphones.”
In collaboration
Guy Gypens, Magali Halter, Hannah de Meyer, Hannah Loewenthal, Sébastien Perreux, SoAP Maastricht, KANAL-Centre Pompidou
Presented
2021 22 – 25 Apr It Never Ends, KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels (BE)
2021 17 – 21 Aug Clash, Noorderzon, Groningen (NL)
2021 24 – 25 Sep Openbare Werken, Kunstencentrum Viernulvier, Gent (BE)