frequent frogs in captivity
(2024)
sound installation
7 wax tubes, glass mirrors, 15 wax discs, 2' 59'' loop, stereo headphones (dimension variable)
Photos © Violetta Valkolbinger
The installation belongs to a body of work concerned with the phenomenon of entrainment. Entrainment descrbes the temporal adjustment of a rhyth to another rhythm and is of great interest to chronobiologists and ecologists.
In its indoor iteration "in captivity" the piece consists of a group of orange wax tubes exhibited in the shop windows of the gallery space and of scattered wax discs accompanied by a pair of headphones.
The distribution of the wax discs follows the correlation between intercall interval and stimulus period, plotted in Figure 5, on an imaginary cartesian plane projected into the exhibition room. The composition interweaves field recordings of the lily pond frogs with imitations of these calls produced with a Sirin Moog synthesiser. Windows of overlapping sounds are interrupted by silences filled by a shot of brief sounds whose timing is based on the distribution plot of figure 2 of the article Zelic & Narins (1985).
Video © DORFTV
This work was exhibited as part of the group exhibition: "Heterotopia: A Relational Space Created by Practice" together with fellow researchers of the PhD Research Collective.
The PhD Research Collective of the University of Arts Linz is a bottom-up structured doctoral program for artistic research. The eight members of the collective, whose backgrounds range from art practices to theory, explore exhibition making as a method to relate to each other’s cosmos of thinking.
Participating artists: Carolyn Amann, Amir Bastan, Marta Beauchamp, Emanuel Gollob, Martin Höfer, Eva Kadlec, Caroline Salfinger, Samet Yalcin
Heterotopia: A Relational Space Created by Practice took place as part of the Kunstuni Kampus exhibition of Ars Electronica Festival, 4.–8.9.2024, Seilerstätte 1, 4020 Linz