The exhibition “echo*” interlaces the creative practices of Martin Beck and Sung Tieu. The exhibition creates an surroundings the place the resonance of sound meets the solidity of institutional infrastructure, delving into temporal and spatial contexts on the similar time.

Central to the exhibition is a collaborative sound set up by Beck and Tieu within the hall enveloping the Kunstverein’s fundamental exhibition house. The set up options an intricate community of 28 audio system organized to provide a steady sonic surroundings. The soundscape, alternately programmed by each artists, ranges from the chirping of crickets and howling bursts of winds to the tumult of a thunderstorm, every including its narrative and emotional depth into the house. This ensuing expertise is as fluid and shifting because the historic and political contexts Beck and Tieu draw from of their particular person works offered in the primary exhibition corridor.

Sung Tieu, identified for her minimalism-critical strategy, explores the tensions arising from design and its social utility. Her installations compel us to think about the unseen layers of political narratives woven into on a regular basis areas. Tieu contributes two digital clocks, every set to totally different time zones linked to incidences of Havana syndrome across the globe. As a brand new fee, she produces a text-based work as a part of her sequence Newspapers 1969–ongoing that interlaces private biography and the kunstverein’s institutional mechanics. The newspaper serves as a sculptural and textual aspect blurring the strains between the archival and the speedy, the factual and the imagined.

Martin Beck’s follow is deeply engaged with processes of imaging, broadening our understanding of visible and auditory cultures. The primary reference level for his most up-to-date physique of works is a sequence of 11 vinyl information titled environments launched between 1969 and 1979 as psychoacoustic instruments designed to boost productiveness and well-being. Beck probes these claims, laying naked the rhetoric of a then-nascent trade. Constructing on this exploration, he contributes 4 large-scale drawings adorned with fern foliage that probe the themes from websites to sounds, duties, and time. Extra works minimize into the file sequence’ covers to spotlight the visible and verbal dimensions related to the paradoxical pressures of self-care and self-control in modern capitalist tradition.

This juxtaposition of Beck and Tieu’s works permits for a mirrored image on how psychological and bodily areas are constructed in addition to for understanding echos as not simply an auditory however a historic and cultural expertise.

Curated by
Mirela Baciak

at Salzburger Kunstverein
till September 8, 2024