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.
Display by Lucas Uhlmann, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Display by Lucas Uhlmann, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Display by Lucas Uhlmann, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Display by Lucas Uhlmann, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Display by Lucas Uhlmann, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound performance by Laurent Güdel, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound performance by Svetlana Maraš, photo: Giona Mottura
Sound performance by Svetlana Maraš, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound performance by REA, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound Performance by Radial + Sudden Infant, photo: Giona Mottura
Sound Performance by Radial + Sudden Infant, photo: Giona Mottura
Sound Performance by Cocoon (Optical Sound), photo: Giona Mottura
Sound Performance by Paradis Noir (Optical Sound), photo: Giona Mottura
Sound Performance by Blacknox (Optical Sound), photo: Giona Mottura
Sound performance by Extrastunden, Nlenitav, Sacha Blank, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound performance by Extrastunden, Nlenitav, Sacha Blank, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound performance by Félicia Atkinson, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound performance by Félicia Atkinson, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound performance by Lionel Friedli, Gilles Furtwängler, Louis Schild, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound performance by Lionel Friedli, Gilles Furtwängler, Louis Schild, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound performance by Lionel Friedli, Gilles Furtwängler, Louis Schild, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound performance by PURPURA, photo: Giona Mottura
Sound performance by Axelle Stiefel, photo: Giona Mottura
Sound performance by Axelle Stiefel, photo: Giona Mottura
Sound performance by Claudia Söckli + guests, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound performance by Claudia Söckli + guests, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound performance by Claudia Söckli + guests, photo: S. Verdon / CAN
Sound performance by David de la Cendre, photo: Guillaume Baeriswyl
Sound performance by SOUHARCE, photo: Guillaume Baeriswyl
Sound performance by JMO, photo: Guillaume Baeriswyl
Sound performance by Effractiion vacances, photo: Guillaume Baeriswyl
