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Tarek Atoui: The Whisperers Live by Tarek Atoui (b.1980.Lebanon) NOV 12 2022@The Flag Art Foundation

Sat.Nov.12.2022. 6:30pm/ free @The Flag Art Foundation https://www.flagartfoundation.org Tarek Atoui (b. 1980, Beirut Lebanon) is an artist and composer living and working in Paris, France. His work stems from performance and investigates how sound can be perceived with sensory organs other than the ear, how sound acts as a catalyst for human interaction, and how it relates to social, historical, or spatial parameters. The point of departure for his works is usually extensive anthropological, ethnological, musicological, or technical research, which results in the realization of instruments, listening rooms, performances, or workshops. Atoui has presented his work internationally at the Sharjah Biennial (2009 and 2013); dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel (2012); 8th Berlin Biennale (2014); Tate Modern, London (2016); NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2018); Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2018); 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Okayama Art Summit (2019); Sharjah Art Foundation (2020); Fridericianum, Kassel (2020); and Bourse de Commerce–Pinault Collection, Paris (2021). He was appointed co-artistic director of STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam in 2007, and of the Bergen Assembly in Norway in 2016. The 2022 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize exhibitions will be the artist’s first solo museum exhibitions in Texas and New York. The Whisperers began during the pandemic as a series of workshops Atoui conducted with his son’s kindergarten class in Paris. “[…]Instead of shifting my practice to the net and making it virtual,” states Atoui, “I started to think, what audiences are still available in the context of lockdown.” Working with four and five-year-old students, the artist found ways to generate collective discoveries through four exploratory questions: How can we amplify spaces by using speakers and microphones immersed in solids, liquids, and gasses? How can we create non-repetitive sounds using objects that rotate or spin? How can we use our bodies to articulate sounds through gestures and performance? How can we translate sounds into sources of motion and energy? “These sessions brought me back to the basics of my practice and made me reconsider elementary things: how I work with speakers, how I work with microphones, with rotation and turntables and records, with sound in air, sound in water, sound in metal, etc.” A continuation of a project presented at the Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong (2021), Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris (2021), and The Contemporary Austin (2022), The Whisperers is an open-ended and cumulative investigation of sound and the ways it shapes perception. Atoui’s practice is rooted in experimentation and collaboration, and investigates how sounds can be experienced in multisensory ways, how sounds act as a catalyst for human interaction, and how sounds can relate to and be informed by social, historical, or spatial parameters. Creating assemblages of custom-built materials he calls "tools for listening," his modules combine wood, brass, water, bronze, glass, and stone to explore each material's acoustic and conductive properties and to build sonic environments within the gallery space. An exhibition catalog co-published by The Contemporary, FLAG, and Radius Books is forthcoming in 2023. Atoui and FLAG would like to recognize all those individuals who helped realize The Whisperers: research and production by Igor Porte, Alan Affichard, and Thomas Besset; sound composition by the artist and Jad Atoui; Studio recordings by Jad Atoui, Anthony Sahioun, and Charbel Haber; instruments by Daniel Araya, Sergei Filatov, Boris Shershenkov, Thierry Madiot, Serge Durin, and Igor Porte; bronze work by Coubertin Foundry; brass work by Mathieu Noblet; wood work by Julien Joubert and Loïc Martin; Tarek Atoui studio management and production by Pauline Roches; and sound artists and collaborators Jad Atoui, Chuck Bettis, Robby Bowen, Nava Dunkelman, Susie Ibarra, and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.