The Ising Project. Last Call.

A piece of ice is melting at the Onassis Stegi 5th floor. Till 29 February.

The installation by Anna Pangalou, "The Ising Project", will be hosted at the Onassis Stegi, only for a few days.

PHOTO: YIORGOS MAVROPOULOS

The Ising Installation

The installation, presented at Onassis Stegi, is part of "the Ising project". It explores the ice melting, through sound. Large pieces of ice, ligthened and connected with microphones, melt slowly, creating an impresive soundscape, the music of nature.

Visit the "Ising" installation, till 29 February 2020 at the Onassis Stegi 5th Floor.

The Ising Project in 3 parts

The "Ising project" is a three part multimedia project. Moving between the concert hall, the polar ice cap, and the gallery, the cycle employs sound, sculpture, video, and photography to convey the power and responsibility of every human to shape our world. This project makes visible how our existence - our breath innervates the national geography both in a beautiful and terrifying way.

The first component of the tryptic is a multicontinent performance tour.The first part of the performance is the preparation of the actual in situ performance. In this part found visual, sonic, meteorological and geographical data from the Arctic is used. An experimentation on the sonic behavior of a piece of ice. Each performance of this part depends on the place, time and condition of the environment in order to find tune their associations with the relevant parameters.

The second component of the cycle is a 21 day performance piece at the North Polar ice cap. During this performance, Pangalou will retrieve a piece of ice that has detached from a local iceberg and place it on a platform. For the next 21 days, Pangalou will sing to the ice - a body of water in a different form. The artist intends to formulate a sculpture with the warmth of the exhalation created by singing. The performance is based on an interactive score, depending on the data of the environment.

The third component of the Ising tryptic will be a second multi continent concert tour in which Pangalou will perform with her live voice against an electronic new music composed environment generated from both the sounds made to sculpt the ice as well as music formed by the data she gathered from her in situ performance.

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