BRANDON LABELLE

Proposal to the Mayor II (Culture and Communication)
April 17 to June 6, 2009
Ybakatu Gallery
Rua Itupava 414
Curitiba, Brazil
http://www.ybakatu.com.br/

Extending past work exhibited at Ybakatu - Proposal to the Mayor I was presented in 2003 - LaBelle presents two new projects that explore aspects of sound, architecture and the urban life of Curitiba. Working with a group of participants, the artist developed a work based on interpreting sound through physical models: sending recordings of his apartment in Berlin to architects, designers, and artists in Curitiba, he requested the participants to listen to the sounds and make a physical model of his apartment in response. The models become a means for bringing the act of listening forward into the spatial imagination. The models are further presented as proposals for future buildings in Curitiba. As a second work, the artist presents a portable object for the presentation of an exhibition of frequency: experimental audio works by different artists and composers from 1950 to the present. Basing this work on the artist Bruno Lechowski, a Polish artist who in the 1920s presented his paintings in a portable tent structure in Curitiba, the work acts as a mobile museum able to locate audio within public space. The mobile museum is proposed as a permanent addition to the network of museums in the city of Curitiba.

http://www.errantbodies.org

Participants:
Coletivo Interluxartelivre
Guilherme Caldas
Joana Corona and C.L.Salvaro
Liz Sandoval
Malu e João de Lara
Margit Leisner
Mário Sampaio
Paulo Chiesa e alunos do curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da UFPR
Roberto Arad and Rafael Lino