SO FAR BY NOW
2018
Multi channel sound installation
Loop, duration: 7’53” min
Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More
Riga International Biennial
Riga, Latvia
Curated by: Katerina Gregos
Comissioned by: Riga International Biennial
So Far By Now is a narrative sound installation created specifically for a desolate library room of a former Biological faculty of a university building which functioned as the main venue for the 1st Riga Biennial. Set in this melancholic room two voices linger and entwine, drifting in between the empty shelves they unfold a narrative in canon. Together they create a continuously descending loop with a hint of optimism that fails to materialize.
The voices can be though of as a leftover presence, from people and books that once occupied the library and now hauntingly linger on. The looping piece can be seen as a symptom of knowledge production, a balancing act between the grounding and security of understanding, to that of being lost within a cacophony of noise. With each acquisition of information, a multitude of questions reveal themselves, and yet again, we are forced into the unknown.
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Voices:
Zoë Poluch
Hans Rosenström