Un acierto y un error en Soundworks del ICA. El acierto; haber comisariado una interesante selección de artistas que han creado obras sonoras inspiradas en el trabajo Days de Bruce Nauman, que se exhibe estos días en el Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo de Londres y, sobre todo, hacer accesible todo este material en streming para que lo podamos disfrutar con el tiempo y la atención que se merece.

Y el error… Aprovechar esta producción para llenar una de las salas colocando un banco que contiene en el centro un Ipad desde el que podemos acceder al contenido virtual. De nuevo la obsesión por llenar el espacio expositivo y justificar una producción con la necesidad de un resto material.

One hundred new sound works have been produced by artists from all over the world. Selected by our curators and art institutions worldwide, the artists have been invited to submit a sound work, taking its stimulus from themes evoked in Bruce Nauman’s Days, presented concurrently in the lower gallery, as part of our season on sound.

SOUNDWORKS embraces the ephemeral nature of sound, and presents an online platform that doubles as a virtual exhibition space. This site aims to make the works internationally accessible, a place to explore the genre as a medium which is simultaneously inclusive, interactive, and subversive. It includes a wide range of audible approaches by artists who have been working with the medium for many years, as well as artists taking their first venture into the sonic arts.