MONOLITH / 12 : 32' : 00''
audiovisual installation 2021
HETEROTOPIA: A REAL PLACE WHERE INCOMPATIBLE RULES AND REALITIES COEXIST WITHIN SOCIETY — SUCH AS PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS OR GRAVEYARDS.
- MICHEL FOUCAULT
HETEROTOPIA: A REAL PLACE WHERE INCOMPATIBLE RULES AND REALITIES COEXIST WITHIN SOCIETY — SUCH AS PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS OR GRAVEYARDS.
- MICHEL FOUCAULT
HETEROTOPIA: A REAL PLACE THAT FUNCTIONS AS AN “OTHER SPACE,” WHERE INCOMPATIBLE RULES AND REALITIES COEXIST WITHIN SOCIETY — SUCH AS PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS OR GRAVEYARDS.
- MICHEL FOUCAULT
CONCEPT / SOUND :
Jelena Pavlović
*For the full experience, turn on sound.
Like a monument erected in the name of someone who is no longer there, the audovisual work reflects on presence in an era of contemporary displacement and mediation. Drawing on Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, Monolith constructs an acoustic other space during night - for 12 : 32' : 00'' .
The installation operates simultaneously as surveillance and activation. Six speakers and a distributed network of microphones form a circular sonic field that captures and redistributes the sounds of the space in real time. Visitors enter as both listeners and sources: every movement, whisper and breath is absorbed and returned as trace, merging human presence with the living soundscape of nature.
In the absence of light, the monument stops being an object and becomes an event.
Presence is no longer seen — it is felt.