White Box is pleased to present WHITE NOISE III: Pandora’s Sound Box for PERFORMA 09 opening on Monday, November 2nd and on view through November 22nd. PERFORMA 09 is the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance.
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White Box is pleased to present WHITE NOISE III: Pandora’s Sound Box for PERFORMA 09 opening on Monday, November 2nd and on view through November 22nd. PERFORMA 09 is the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance.
Pandora’ s Sound Box is an interactive multimedia exhibition conceived to destabilize and reactivate our vision of the current global political landscape through performance, sound, video and site-specific installations. The exhibition demonstrates a kind of experiment of the associative imagination by which the viewer may explore other dimensions of experience while simultaneously becoming a performer. The title of the exhibition was inspired by Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s controversial 1929 film Pandora’s Box, which exposed and explored the fear of female sexuality. Although considered thirty years ahead of its time, Pandora’s Box was banned by Hitler upon its release and classified as “degenerate art.”
Pandora’ s Sound Box deals with the identification of fear in contemporary society, i.e. fear of war, terrorism, immigration, and the media, as conveyed through the strong material presence of sound. The exhibition in the main gallery space features work by Pierre Bismuth, Agnieszka Kurant, Matthieu Laurette, Oswaldo Macia, and Carlo Zanni. WHITE BOX PROJECTS space will feature special changing installations by Django Hernández, Davide Bertocchi, Robert Lazzarini and Olaf Breuning. Special performances by Michaël Aerts and Vadim Vosters, as well as Tanja Ostojic will take place as part of the exhibition.
