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Part 4 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.
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Falling Rope. 2013
LED, LED controllers, LCD monitor, speakers, media player and cables
Haroon Mirza’s work attempts to isolate the perceptual distinctions between noise, sound and music and to explore the possibility of the visual and acoustic as one singular aesthetic form. Falling Rope was initially inspired by a 1907 photograph by Herbert Ponting of Shiraito (literally, “falling string”) Waterfall, in Fujinomiya, with Mount Fuji in the background. In Mirza’s installation, footage of a nearby waterfall with larger streams is projected onto the screen of a dismembered LCD monitor that sits on the floor; an upside-down speaker cone, shaped like a mountain peak, hangs adjacent. Three wall-based assemblages repeat the motif of falling. They also generate sound, which, along with the white noise of the waterfall’s gushing water, combine to form a rhythmic composition.
© Video: Binder & Haupt
© Text: SB11 Guidebook
Part 4 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.