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‘ASSEMBLED PATTERNS’, Athens, Nea Ionia,  2023
residency Yellow Brick studio’s

Is a research of sounds in the public space of Athens shaped into field recordings that have been assembled in an audiowork and tells a story about the city. The work was shown to the public in the form of an installation that consisted of a table that acted as a workspace but also as a pedestal to exhibit the work. The installation was extended by speakers and fans that produced the sound during the two listening sessions that took place on the evening of the open studios.






Aaron Daem and Evelyn Vanoverbeke are artists based in Brussels, sharing their fascination for urban environments and alternative forms of note-taking e.g. field recording, cognitive mapping and associative writing. During this presentation we immerse ourselves in the space of Yellow Brick that for some hours is transformed into a safe public space inviting us to sessions of deep listening. “Assembled Patterns” is a work in process, rather than a finished piece, an assemblage of questions that the artists pose to themselves both regarding methodology of research but also of a collaborative experience of artistic production.

Emerging in a city like Athens and Nea Ionia, where even the boundaries between municipalities are literally invisible, is chaotic and it would be superficial to claim that there is one single sound that represents all these multiple layers engraved in the urban environment. However the methodology followed scratched these layers revealing facts and provoking reflections. During the one month long residency at Yellow Brick in Nea Ionia they worked in search of the “Athenian” sound, researching the documentation of language, urban “noise” and its absence.
From the sound inside the church of St Panteleimon, the echoes of sound of the city mix with the voices of the people inside, with children’s voices from the playground, creating a noisy environment in a topos of prayer and pre-supposed silence, making us wonder about the essence of lack of sound and the distance or closeness to the reality that this can create. At the same time, their persistence and committed research around certain axes like the green line of the overground train enriched this sound archive with an alternation of the parallel sounds, the one that one can see (the train) and hear and the invisible one, the water running through the river underneath it. It is in this constant shift of the visible and the invisible sound resourc that the sound pieces invite us in. Sounds that one can find familiar or not, can imagine their origin and can possibly give a personal visual identity.

At the same time their co-working methodology, common pace and working pattern is also integral and primary in the space. The visual manifestation of this collaboration is the platform built by the two artists as a working table. This functions both as a collector of accumulated knowledge, recordings of voices and sounds, notes and images but also as the common ground of collaboration. It is this common ground that with two equal sides it can also easily recall the popular phrase “what do you bring on the table?” Bringing their personal practices with different departure points and past manifestations, they chose this platform as a space of mutual exchange and common growth, using sound as their common means as it is new but also superficially invisible.














CREDITS

text by Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou
pictures by Alexandra Masmanindi

This residency was supported by the Flanders Government, department CJM (Culture, Youth and Media).