Maria HASSANI, "CANCELLED"
- idzia13200
- Jul 10, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 31
Maria HASSANI, CANCELLED
📍The Landscaped Park, Luma Foundation, Arles
▪️ iDzia installation : the sound, multicasting for sound creation
The Gardens of the Luma Foundation in Arles served as the setting for a unique artistic experience, showcasing the sound work of artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi. For this occasion, Fohhn LX11 speakers were placed on the grass, amplifying the impact of the performance within this natural and welcoming environment. These speakers, with their precise diffusion capabilities, provided an immersive sound experience, perfectly aligned with the work created by Hassabi during her residency at the Luma Foundation.
Maria Hassabi, an artist renowned for her exploration of the limits of the body and movement, spent three months in residence at the foundation. At the end of this period, she presented her performance titled CANCELLED, a conceptual work that combines the body, time, and immobility in a deep reflection on the human condition. CANCELLED challenges the notions of time and human dynamism, exploring the idea of prolonged immobility and slowness as ways to address questions of perception and the transformation of the body in space.
The performance was built around the concept of the absence of rapid movement and the importance of stillness in the creative process. By playing with extremely slow tempos, Maria Hassabi created a work that plunges the audience into a reflection on the passage of time and how the human figure evolves and interacts with its environment. This experience highlighted subtle contrasts between the stillness of the body and the enveloping sounds created by the multidirectional sound diffusion, allowing the audience to perceive nuances invisible to the naked eye but powerfully present through the sound.
The sound installation by iDzia played a key role in enhancing this work. With multidirectional sound diffusion, the spectators were immersed in a rich acoustic atmosphere, creating a resonance that reinforced the hypnotic effect of the performance. The sound diffusion technology enabled spatialization of sound, which accompanied and amplified the experience of slowness and immobility, making the performance even more poignant.
Thus, Maria Hassabi's CANCELLED was a unique experience where sound, stillness, and movement intertwined, offering the audience a profound reflection on time, the body, and human perception in an environment filled with calm and serenity.
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