Friday, Saturday and Sunday @ IKOB – 06.09-08.09.2019
13 vinyl records, 13 glue casts, text
Four videos (colour, sound)
Four flat-panel displays, four headsets
Graphic Varispeed, a work in progress, is a collaboration between Martin Tétreault, a Montreal artist and turntablist, and Dieter Kovačič, alias dieb13, a Vienna-based artist and turntablist who cuts his own vinyl discs. The project began in March 2014 when Tétreault and Kovačič were on tour together in Europe. Dieter gave Martin a record that he had cut himself. Martin made a cast of the vinyl disc using wood glue, following a technique that he had developed. The next day, once it had dried, he gave it to Dieter. When he got back to Vienna, Dieter made a copy of the glue cast, and mailed the resulting vinyl disc to Martin. Martin then made another cast. . . and so on. The two artists have been exchanging vinyl discs and glue casts by mail ever since. As of September 1st, 2019, 13 iterations exist. The pair have yet to set a limit on how many will be made, nor on how long the exchange by mail will last. Perhaps they never will.
The work is now accompanied by four videos, allowing the visitor to see and hear four performances.
– The first was given by Martin Tétreault on April 18, 2017, at the premiere showing of the installation, as part of the exhibition Où sont les sons ? / Where are sounds? held at CENTRALE for contemporary art, Brussels, from April 20 to September 10, 2017; curator: Nicole Gingras.
– The second was given by dieb13 on August 23, 2018, at the second showing of the installation, as part of the exhibition trust*us: Die Kunst der Freundschaft held at Galerie 5020, Salzburg, from August 23 to October 6, 2018; curators: Karin Fisslthaler, Thomas Hörl, Peter Kozek and Lydia Nsiah.
– The third was given by Martin Tétreault on January 24, 2019, at a showing of the installation at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, as part of Persisiting Realities exhibition for the 20th edition of CTM, January 25 to March 17, 2019; co-curators: Nicole Gingras and Eric Mattson.
– The fourth was given by dieb13 on September 6, 2019, at a showing of the installation at IKOB Art Contemporary Museum, Eupen, as part of Meakusma festival.
Text by Nicole Gingras
en direct du festival Meakusma
http://www.meakusma-festival.be/
Martin Tétreault
(Ambiances Magnétiques - CA)
Turntable player, improviser, sound designer, and visual artist Martin Tétreault first started to play improvised music with the likes of Michel F Côté, René Lussier, Diane Labrosse and Jean Derome. His work with both standard and custom-made turntables has been widely recognized both here in Canada and abroad. He performs both alone or with other musicians, dancers/choreographers, poets and installation artists.
Between 1994 and 2004 he has played at various international music festivals and started to perform and record with Otomo Yoshihide, Xavier Charles and many other musicians. In 2004 choreographer Lynda Gaudreau commissioned Tétreault a piece for turntable quartet. Martin regularly works with Cas Public and Sylvain Émard Danse. His solo exhibitions include R_ _GO, Prises de son: couleurs et animées and Phonographes vinylisés. In 2015 Nicole Gingras authored a monograph devoted to his work, Des disques et un couteau.
Graphic Varispeed (2014–201_)
(MARTIN TÉTREAULT & DIEB13 - CAN/AUT)
Nico Bogaerts
Dublab Special
(Radio Panik - BE)
In 1992 Our Man From Brussels has been asked to join the new radio show called Moacrealsloa to spin records. All kind of never before heard sounds found there way to the Brussels air waves. Some experts invented the word “sonoclast” to describe the eclectic taste of this guy.
In 2017 he celebrated the 24th birthday of this show with an air wave marathon that ran for 24-hours straight. Dozens of guests and 19 live acts were present to made an unforgettable ear-gasm..
After more then a quater of a century, digging deeper then the deepest known underground, he still find the most incredible treasures from all around the world.
Hundreds of artists came to his show like Otomo Yoshihide, Aidan Baker, Hoppy Kamiyama, Carl Stone, Leo Küpper, Miki Yui, Okkyung Lee, Peter Cusack, Ryoko Akama, Awott, Bonnie Jones, Julia Kent, Baudoin Oosterlynck, Jean Claude Risset, ….. and an incredible list of interviews with artists like Steven Stapleton, William Bennett, Hermann Nitsch, Oren Ambarchi, Lee Ranaldo, Peter Rehberg, Thomas Ankersmit, Little Annie, Andrew Lilles, Marshall Allen, Baby Dee, David Thomas, Bruce McClure, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Lucrecia Dalt, …..
www.radiopanik.org