Growlers, Cracklers & Bursters at CIAP

Artists: Anna Godzina, Christoph De Boeck, Daan Gielis, Ersi Varveri & Lynn Depreeuw, Esther Venrooy, Floris Vanhoof, Imge & Sine Özbilge, Jonathan Paepens, Karina Beumer & Peter Lemmens, Koba De Meutter, Lydia Debeer, Maika Garnica & Willem Coenen, Robert Soroko, Willem Boel, Winnie Claessens

Exhibition title: Growlers, Cracklers & Bursters

Curated by: Louise Osieka

Venue: CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium

Date: May 3 – June 30, 2019

Photography: Michiel De Cleene / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and CIAP, Hasselt

Noise is fulfilling a connecting role in the new group exhibition at CIAP. The participating artists are not all per se sound artists but are interested in expanding their visual practice into the auditory realm.

Growlers, Cracklers and Bursters are just a few of the unique names the Futurist artist Luigi Russolo (1885-1947) gave to his experimental noise-making machines. Together with his other so-called intonarumori , they made up a cacophonic orchestra with which he, at the turn of the twentieth century, had the ambition of reflecting the new world of machines. With this innovation Russolo can be considered the grandfather of the movement we today refer to as noise music.

In analogy with Russolo’s orchestra, this exhibition has been conceived as a score in the space. All the works and sounds are distinct and autonomous, yet enter into a dialogue, willy-nilly, with each other and with the visitors. This group exhibition took shape in an associative manner and was designed orchestrally in dialogue with all the participating artists.