Negating Blank II – A Response in Sound

Ongoing sound installation accompanying the solo exhibition »Negating Blank II: Performacy« by painter/performance artist Dolanbay.

Sound is immanence in the paintings in silence…

»A persona without identity, with no concept or idea, as raw material, reduced into an act in a mode of performativity. A perpetual movement of lines are released, one after another, upon the canvas. The act is not conditioned, it is both differentiated and repetitive, occurring as movement in continuity. Indifferent to the actual time and space, it flows in simultaneity and gradually generates its own presence through longevity. [...] Each of the dripping lines is opposing generality and each painting occurs through repetition. The surfaces resemble a unique sounding instrument, as if silent sounds were concealed in liminal space. The inner space is waiting to be unfolded and the sounds of the lines are waiting to be revealed in a participatory act.« Dolanbay, 2024

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 installation accompanying »Negating Blank II: Performacy« is sensitive to the shared performative underpinnings of painting and sound art doing. Imbued with the composer’s experience of the artworks, it expands the compressed temporal and spatial layers of the paintings into time-based media.