Anechoic Chamber episode 13: Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand

Welcome to the 13th episode of Anechoic Chamber; free-form audio and insights from the margins of art and culture. Our guests for this edition are Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, a partnership known for their advancement of scientific creativity - that is to say, for a series of works that are aesthetically engaging while also being informed by a high level of scientific rigor, and in particular by a specialist knowledge in the limits of perceptibility. The duo’s fascinating art events, with alluring titles such as “Mucilaginous Omniverse,” or “Sonolevitation,” are almost unparalleled in the modern art world, owing to their rejection of that milieu’s largely linguistic approach to propagating itself and a clearer focus on art as phenomenological study. More importantly, though, they earn their distinction by exploring the so-called “objectless universe, “ exposing audiences to physical phenomena in various transitional states or states of incompleteness. In some cases, their commitment has led to historic firsts, such as the largest display of sonoluminescence ever displayed (this being the emission of light bursts from imploding bubbles within an acoustically excited liquid). Through these actions, Domnitch and Gelfand have also touched upon the sensory condition of synesthesia and raised the question of perceptual modalities beyond the five so-called classical senses. We hope you find the following discussion of their methods and inspirations as stimulating as we do. Additional sounds from the artists' installation / performances "Force Field" and "Mucilaginous Universe," and "Specification Sixteen" (audio by Richard Chartier & Taylor Deupree) from "Camera Lucida" DVD Artist links: www.portablepalace.com Anechoic Chamber links Donate via Paypal: tbwb@protonmail.com general host activities: www.thomasbeywilliambailey.com