COMMING SOON
Before the official opening of new exhibitions, we invite our members to a preview!
Who suffers the consequences of the green movement? Hear the way 250-metre tall wind turbines blend with everyday sounds and impact on a local community.
Zifzafa is an Arabic word describing a wind that shakes and rattles everything in its path. Lawrence Abu Hamdan has created a work which demonstrates the effect that more than 30 planned wind turbines will have upon the inhabitants of the occupied Golan Heights.
Via a kind of computer game, the public can move through the landscape and hear the sounds made by 250-metre wind turbines. Abu Hamdan also includes a video of saxophonist Amr Mdah, playing from the balcony of one of the area’s small houses. The music blends with the noise of the turbines, children playing, bees buzzing and birds singing. In this way, Abu Hamdan creates an acoustic image of the local environment.
As well as being a powerful installation in itself, the work also addresses important critical questions to do with the green movement and those who suffer in the transition to so-called clean energy. This is especially relevant in connection with the current anti-wind turbine protests here in Norway/Sápmi. Zifzafa at MUNCH will include a Sámi voiceover.
The exhibition is curated by Tominga O’Donnell.
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