Tarek Atoui
WITHIN
February 18–March 25, 2017
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
10 rue Charlot
75003 Paris
Event schedule
(in the presence of a sign language interpreter)
Limited access due to the nature of the events
Please confirm your attendance—rsvp [at] crousel.com or call T +33 1 42 77 38 87
Galerie Chantal Crousel
February 18 at 4pm, 6pm & 8pm: Opening performances, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
March 4 at 5:30pm: Conversation with Tarek Atoui & Council, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
March 11 at 4pm, 6pm & 8pm: Performances, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
March 25 at 4pm, 6pm & 8pm: Closing performances, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
IRACM / Centre Pompidou, Paris
March 18 at 8:30pm: Performances, IRCAM Live, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
May 5: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Rosas, Brussels
May 12: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Palais Dynastie, Brussels
May 19: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
May 26: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Wiels, Brussels
Tarek Atoui’s project WITHIN tackles the ways in which deafness can influence our understanding of sound performance, its space and instrumentation. Initiated in 2012 and enhanced by the collaboration of the curatorial duo Council (Sandra Terdjman & Gregory Castera), WITHIN carried on its evolution with the project’s invitations and exhibitions: Sharjah Biennial (2013), Berkeley Art Museum, USA (2015), Experimental Music and Performing Art Center – EMPAC, USA (2015), ZKM, Germany (2016), and more recently at the Bergen Assembly, Norway (2016).
For the Bergen Assembly, where Tarek Atoui was also artistic co-director, the artist developed new instruments which expend the notion of hearing, beyond orality. The design of the instruments and their playability are the result of workshops and residencies where Tarek Atoui progressively made an instrumentarium in cooperation with acoustic instrument-makers, speaker designers, software engineers, composers, and deaf and hearing people. In September 2016, the instruments were brought together for the first time in Sentralbadet, a forsaken swimming pool located in the center of Bergen in Norway where composers and musicians, both amateur and professional, deaf and hearing people, were welcome to take possession of the exhibition space and test these instruments, playing them separately or as
an ensemble.
The exhibition WITHIN at the Galerie Chantal Crousel culminates in a new chapter after the Bergen edition. The instrumentarium will become a sound installation replaying some of the past performance recordings and offering its audience new sound apprehension methods, whether they are physical, tactile, visual or aural. For the project’s Parisian iteration, the instruments will also be activated during workshops, rehearsals and performances which will take place at the gallery and outdoor, with the collaboration of the INJS (National Institute for Young Deafs in Paris), the Centre Pompidou and IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music). The latter two are also co-producers of a new instrument soon to be finalized and created for WITHIN.
On account of the evolving nature of WITHIN, the Galerie Chantal Crousel will also present the early rehearsal of its performances at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels (May 2017), in partnership with WIELS.
