Esther Venrooy

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• All That Matters is Where I lay my Head
• There is Nothing Connected, Nothing Distinct
• Gsätzli
• The Unseen and the Visible
• Closer to Me Than I Am Myself
• Who Will Compose My Distracted Thoughts?
• Certain altérations sont bien sûr essentielles
• Dans le vide en le silence
• Nos Silences Nos Paroles
• We Meet on Empty Walls
• Shift Coordinate Points
• The Listening Reader
• Of Course Static and Moving Are Possible
• After Image
• Refrakt
• Vessel
• Du Hast Kein Flussigon
• Time Three Point Five
• Not Here ... You Can Look Any Place
• And a Heavy Blue Silence Fell Klunk
• A Shadow of a Wall
• Transfiguration of Steel
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Transfiguration of Steel

Three transducers, wooden panels and beams

in collaboration with Hans Demeulenaere

Ateliers Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

(21 November 2009 – 21 January 2010)

I created the audiovisual installation Transfiguration of Steel during a three-month residency at Ateliers Frankfurt between November 2009 and January 2010. The work was created in collaboration with Hans Demeulenaere and was inspired by the IG Farben Building (or Poelzig Building) at Goethe University Frankfurt. I became fascinated by the immense reverberation in the cafeteria, formerly IG Farben’s exhibition hall. Field recordings made in the cafeteria of the IG Farben Building are mixed with electronic tones and noises generated by computer, which result in a sound work with inner complexity and constantly changing patterns. The title refers to the tubular steel construction technique  first pioneered in this building.

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