![]() Her book Sound and Affect: An Anthropology of China’s Sound Practice (Zhejiang University Press, 2017) explores the concepts of freedom, affect and sound through anthropological research on China’s sound culture. Sound studies scholar, art anthropologist, sound event organizerĪcademically trained in performance studies, Adel-Jing Wang is an associate professor in the College of Media and International Culture at Zhejiang University. (Charlotte Hug, Slipway to Galaxies (2011), Live Performance and Installation, “Mercurial Touch”) Guests (Charlotte Hug, opening performance at CAA, Hangzhou) ![]() ![]() The intervals between the cultures offer new spaces for thought and creativity. The musical result will, however, always be sustained and imbued by the inner rigor or the sensuous pull of the formal language of the Son-Icons created in Europe and China. During her solo live-performance at the opening she navigates musically with voice and viola in the unknown space in between. ![]() In the exhibition at the CAA, she will juxtapose the drawings from Europe and the new Son-Icons created in China. The installation celebrates the transitions between land and water, day and night, life and death, as well as the transitions into the apparently impossible. A new deep relation and interaction between the ephemeral visual shapes and sounds evolves from these experiences. She draws with both hands and her brushes dance in the rhythm and pulsation of the visually uncharted territories.Ĭharlotte brings her art installation “Son-Icons – Visual Sounds” from Europe, which shows sound drawings. An essential inspiration is also the numerous Chinese persons painting with water on stone in public spaces in China – creating temporary calligraphy. Supported by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Councilĭuring her three-month artist residency in Shanghai and Hangzhou, Swiss inter-media artist and musician Charlotte Hug will create new Son-Icons inspired by her research in Chinese Calligraphy, artistic encounters with masters of Calligraphy, Chinese musicians and discussions with scholars and artists. Son-Icons – Visual Sounds from Europe and China Solo exhibitions at the Cité internationale des Arts Paris, at the Kunstkeller Bern, Swissnex San Francisco, the Sirius Arts Centre Cobh Cork Ireland and the Musuem of Art Luzern.Studio Residency Artist Charlotte Hug Solo Project These have resulted in spatial and video scores range of works from solo to orchestra pieces. Hug also composes with graphic musical notation. Hug is known for her solo performances in distinctive locations such as the ice tunnels of the Rhône glacier, the half demolished bunker in Berlin Humboldthain, the House of Detention, a 250 year old former prison in Farringdon in London, the hot healing sulphur springs beneath the former luxury hotel of Verenahof in Baden, Switzerland or the dockyard in Coph on the Irish Atlantic coast. In the visual arena, as well as in the musical context, her sound-drawings “Son-Icons” have found international recognition. What has resulted is an unmistakable and distinct tonal language. She also specializes in combining the sounds of viola and voice. She seeks to develop instrumental techniques to their fullest possible extent, which includes the “soft bow technique”, by means of which she can play up to eight voices on her instrument. Violist, vocalist, composer and artist Charlotte Hug lives in Zurich and on the road. Slipway to Galaxies is inspired and informed by sleeplessness, oscillating between visual experience and unfettered sounds, between the separation and collision of logic and emotion. Her playing became at once almost euphorically light and very powerful. She was not concerned solely with remaining awake for forty hours rather, she wanted to leave the comfort zone that sleep represents, and thus artistically penetrate the blind spot of night. The artist’s experiment on herself in the sleep laboratory was extended by a further experience with another encounter with extreme temporal and physical duress: Hug allowed herself to be immersed in water for 5 hours in a dockyard near Cork in Southern Ireland, as she stood in the Atlantic playing the violin and singing, and the waters rose up to her neck. She drew, played and sang uninterruptedly for forty whole hours. Hug submitted herself and her creative activity to forty hours of sleep-deprivation in the sleep laboratory at Zurich University. Swiss vocalist/violist Charlotte Hug will perform Slipway to Galaxies, a performance influenced by long stays in Ireland, and experiments in sleep research.
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