Kontrollstation (2014)

Kontrollstation

The performance "Control Station" deals with the role of acoustics and the opportunity to shape rooms by intervening with the existing background noise.

The auditory part of this work consists of three sections, each of which are sound collages, spoken and sung passages. These passages explain Leclaire's thoughts about the content of the sound piece. Within a latex installation, the space is divided into an indoor and an outdoor space. The viewer is outside the latex construction, while Leclaire performs inside it. The latex material, which is made from liquid latex, plastic wrap and iodine bitumen, has a skin-like structure and appearance. Inside the thin latex material lights are installed, which respond to sound. The sound of the performance lights up the latex installation from the inside, so that the construction seems to pulsate like an internal organ and becomes something like a uterus. The spoken and sung text deals with the hypothesis that sound has a huge impact on the perception of space. "I can change a room only by speaking. Nevertheless, the space that forms, is my very own personal space and the space of my counterpart is not properly assessable for me." The light installation additionally depicts this.