Negating Blank II – A Response in Sound

The third durational sound performance in a series of four, accompanying the solo exhibition »Negating Blank II: Performacy« by painter/performance artist Dolanbay.

Sound is immanence in the paintings in silence…

A subtle sound vibrates the space, emerging from and fading back into silence, at times accumulating into a gentle layered crescendo, then falling back into near inaudibility…. A sounding, resonating, vibrating silence… Like particles of dust quivering and dancing in the light of a sunbeam…

The sound works accompanying »Negating Blank II: Performacy« are sensitive to the shared performative underpinnings of painting and sound art doing.

Imbued with the musicians’ experience of the artworks, they expand the compressed temporal and spatial layers of the paintings into time-based media, revealing the sounds latent in these and responding to the exhibition context as a whole.