Opening: Harmonic Tremor
The Living Art Museum is pleased to present Harmonic Tremor by multi-disciplinary artists Ben Frost and Francesco Fabris. The exhibition opens on Friday March 20th at 8pm with a live performance at 8:30pm (duration 50 min). Curated by Þorsteinn Eyfjörð.
Harmonic Tremor emerges from several years of fieldwork in Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula where a series of eruptions between 2021 and 2023 reshaped the terrain. The work encounters the Earth as a sounding body, where landscape is not treated as a static object of observation but as an unfolding event. Sound functions here both as memory and as an immediate physical force; a document of geological rupture and a medium through which that rupture is re-animated directly into the present.
Loudspeakers diffuse a spatial composition woven from hours of field recordings. The sound in motion - gathered by the artists through various techniques including full spectrum analogue tape recordings, geophonic infrasound data collection, and intimate application of contact microphones placed directly to the newly cooled lava - moves like a tectonic drift, enveloping in a field of shifting resonance.
Over the course of the exhibition eight speaker cones, each filled with lava collected from the eruption sites, transform the exhibition space into a resonant chamber of geological sequence. Fine particles of lava placed in the speakers are gradually pushed outward through vibration, spilling across the floor. These moving grains form unstable drawings that slowly evolve and accumulate, exposing layers of sonically charged strata; reflecting a process of deep time that shapes the surrounding landscape not only of Iceland but beyond, through millennia. The landscape is not merely heard but is itself the act of hearing.
The Living Art Museum is pleased to present Harmonic Tremor by multi-disciplinary artists Ben Frost and Francesco Fabris. The exhibition opens on Friday March 20th at 8pm with a live performance at 8:30pm (duration 50 min). Curated by Þorsteinn Eyfjörð.
Harmonic Tremor emerges from several years of fieldwork in Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula where a series of eruptions between 2021 and 2023 reshaped the terrain. The work encounters the Earth as a sounding body, where landscape is not treated as a static object of observation but as an unfolding event. Sound functions here both as memory and as an immediate physical force; a document of geological rupture and a medium through which that rupture is re-animated directly into the present.
Loudspeakers diffuse a spatial composition woven from hours of field recordings. The sound in motion - gathered by the artists through various techniques including full spectrum analogue tape recordings, geophonic infrasound data collection, and intimate application of contact microphones placed directly to the newly cooled lava - moves like a tectonic drift, enveloping in a field of shifting resonance.
Over the course of the exhibition eight speaker cones, each filled with lava collected from the eruption sites, transform the exhibition space into a resonant chamber of geological sequence. Fine particles of lava placed in the speakers are gradually pushed outward through vibration, spilling across the floor. These moving grains form unstable drawings that slowly evolve and accumulate, exposing layers of sonically charged strata; reflecting a process of deep time that shapes the surrounding landscape not only of Iceland but beyond, through millennia. The landscape is not merely heard but is itself the act of hearing.
