Room 4 at CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel

Artists: Lucas Uhlmann, Laurent Güdel, Svetlana Maraš, REA, Radial, Sudden Infant, Pierre Beloüin, BlackNox, Cocoon, Paradis Noir, Extrastunden, Nlenitav, Sacha Blank, Félicia Atkinson, Lionel Friedli, Gilles Furtwängler, Louis Schild, PURPURA, Axelle Stiefel, Claudia Stöckli, David de la Cendre, JMO, Effraction Vacances, SOUHARCE

Exhibition title: Room 4

Venue: CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Date: November 22 – December 15, 2019

Photography: Sebastian Verdon / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel

Note: Exhibition booklet is available here

Room 4 is a space dedicated to sound performance, experimentation and diffusion.

This environment, designed by artist and designer Lucas Uhlmann, offers a setting for a profound hearing experience. In the enfilade of a bar, where the audience meets leaning on the counter, a hallway leads to a room with curved padded lines in which stools are scattered, ready to welcome listeners. The notion of time is very quickly altered and gradually adjusts to the rhythm of the sounds filling the space.

Everything here points to exceptional moments. The performers stand on the same level as the audience and offer them an intimate, sometimes gentle, sometimes brutal one-on-one experience ; moments of communion of which only the rumour of a place that would have existed will remain.

About twenty performances, developing over eight events between 22 November and 14 December, will make up the contrasting programme of Room 4.