Making Space Tangible
Strijbos & Van Rijswijk: “We believe in the value of art as an open space of individual and collective imagination. Part of our research is how to rearticulate the potential of art as an open space, and the potential of each of us in terms of imaginative space.”
In Albert van Abbehuis Strijbos & Van Rijswijk will present several soundworks, like newcomer Quiver, and Rocking Chairs and Dadoc, as part of an ongoing research on art related to architecture, public space and the public itself. Art, less about objects and more about experience. The transition of object nature to space nature – in which the viewers own experience and reflexivity becomes the subject of the art and that idea of where meaning arises, where value arises – has shifted from thing to event.
The Quiver works are a comment to the environment in which they’re situated. By using the architecture of Albert van Abbehuis as a foil or as a vehicle to compose works visually and acoustically, Strijbos & Van Rijswijk investigates the distinction between imagination and body and architecture. Human perception and human experience are embodied. People begin to experience Quiver, Rocking Chairs and Dadoc only as they interact with them. The significance of these works come from the active participation of a viewer.
Credits:
Quiver #4, #5 en #6
concept, design & composition: Strijbos & Van Rijswijk
musictechnology support: Hans Timmermans (BoZ)
Rocking Chairs
composition: Strijbos & Van Rijswijk
design: Christian Grässli (CH)
interactive patchwork: Hans Timmermans (aka Buddha Building)
Dadoc
composition: Strijbos & Van Rijswijk
design: Christian Grässli (CH)
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Signal bij de Rotte
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Signal at Dusk
Cryptic connect land and sea with sound in Signal at Dusk, a captivating, boundary-crossing coastal opera set against the transitioning sunset sky by Dutch duo Strijbos & Van Rijswijk.
Your Trembling Mile
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Signal in Graz
Based on our landscape opera Signal and in preparation for a large-scale project together with La Strada Graz and the Festival of Regions in Upper Austria next year, we are developing a sound art work especially for our city in this time of challenges due to corona.