🗓️December 20, 2012 – March 11, 2013
RUSSIAN MUSEUM MARBLE PALACE
📍5/1, Millionnaya St, St Petersburg 191186 Russia
The exhibition aims to outline the territory where the paths of color and sound, optics and acoustics, music and visual art intersect. The display, which brings together various museum collections as well as artists, composers, and musicians from Moscow and St. Petersburg, is intended as a continuation of the experiments of the Russian avant-garde of the early 20th century, as well as contemporary efforts to spatially organize and visualize sound through exhibitions and multimedia events held in recent years in different cities across Russia.
Compared to these previous projects, the exhibition at the Russian Museum features a larger number of participants and a broader range of trends and phenomena. Alongside multimedia works, it also presents artworks in traditional techniques and forms (painting, graphic art, collage, sculpture).
The exhibition includes original, nontraditional musical instruments, video projects by composers, examples of sounding sculpture, light-and-sound experiments, visually acoustic objects and installations. For the first time, it also showcases projects based on translating sound impulses into images and movement into sound, as well as video performances and “sounding” costumes.