Your Brain Has No Smell
2017/2019
36 min. audio installation
“But also, light will fall through closed eyelids like it does through a thin skull . So I know you still perceive light.
And colours change when you move ; orange, red, yellow … patterns and shades when trees interfere with the sun playing with that thin layer of blood that filters your view.”
Installation view at Helicotrema, Recorded Audio Festival, Teatro di Palazzo Grassi, 2017, Venice, Italy
Installation in three different clearings in the forest, each with a swivel stool and headphones at 6th International, multi-disciplinary site-responsive art biennale at I-Park, East-Haddam, USA, 2017
As installed in GET RID OF YOURSELF (ANCORA ANCORA ANCORA) at Fondazione Baruchello, Rome, 2019, a collective sound exhibition that took shape in the dark, curated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti in collaboration with Almare
Concept and script: Erica van Loon
Sound design, mixing and mastering: Malu Peeters
Voice: Emi Kodama
Editing script: Ro Heinrich and Heleen van Loon
Sources for the script were among others conversations with (neuro) anatomist Cindy Cleypool
Part of its development took place during residencies at Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol (CH) and I-Park, East-Haddam, USA.
🎧 Listen to an excerpt (recommended to listen on headphones)