solo (Košice)
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For this site-specific realization of Bernhard Gál’s intermedia installation solo, six old phone booths located on Hlavná ulica, Kosice's main street, are transformed into sound and light experience stations, offering an intersensorial experience within public space. The title of this installation refers to the intimacy of this situation – being inside a phone booth, the visitors get confronted with their own perception and state of awareness. Each phone booth shows a designated colour, accompanied with corresponding sound works by Bernhard Gál, based on environmental recordings from Košice, as well as selected aphorisms by the Slovak writer Róbert Gál. All windows are covered with colour and transparency films, resulting in changing light, translucency and mirror constellations, depending on the time of the day. For related works see a.o. RGB (2001), Klangbojen (2003), becuadro (2008), mil águas (2009), Sterngucker (2011). solo (Košice) 6 transformed phone booths, colour and transparency films, lights, timers, audio system, loudspeakers Commissioned by the Festival Sound City Days | Košice 2013 - European Capital of Culture. Location: Hlavná ulica, Košice, September 20-23, 2012 Text contributions & Voice: Róbert Gál Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum Bratislava.  solo (Košice) is featured in Gal's book & DVD video Zwischenbrücken, edition spce | Gromoga, Austria 2015. |
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