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Watou, Poperinge, Belgium
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Speaker
Watou, Poperinge, Belgium
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$10K - 50K
There is a staircase in the greenery of Flanders Fields. It circles upwards all the way above the treetops. Downstairs you look in one direction. When you climb the stairs, you can look at the landscape in all directions. Speaker plays poetry on three levels. This results in a different relationships to the voice and words. Socle, an architecture studio operating from New York and Brussels, thrives in an environment of art and culture and is a firm believer in the 18th-century British poet William Cowper’s principle of ‘Variety is the spice of life’. Speaker let’s one see and hear that different perspectives can be staged; each time different readings of the same poem. In the context of the Watou arts festival, the conversation with Socle started on how sound and silence can best be experienced spatially. Due to Covid-19, the dialogue took a different turn. From indoors to outdoors. The staircase is a primal element in architecture. However, at Watou the stairs have no purpose other than the experience.
Speaker intersects at architecture, exhibition design and installation art:
Architecturally, Speaker functions as a shelter and outlook tower. The second step extends into a bench offering shelter from the elements. On top, the railing closes the rise up and creates a viewing platform overlooking the surrounding landscape. As an exhibition design, Speaker presents a poem from poet Armando. The column of the staircase incorporates three built-in speakers, on different heights. From it, the poem ‘The Street and the Bush’ – read by artist Anouk De Clercq – about guilty landscapes is heard. As installation art, Speaker offers the visitor a multi-sensorial and interactive experience. Inside the greenery, the atmosphere feels closed off. Climbing Speaker feels liberating. It creates an atmospheric contrast, that pulls the visitor out of the landscape.
Speaker intersects at architecture, exhibition design and installation art:
Architecturally, Speaker functions as a shelter and outlook tower. The second step extends into a bench offering shelter from the elements. On top, the railing closes the rise up and creates a viewing platform overlooking the surrounding landscape. As an exhibition design, Speaker presents a poem from poet Armando. The column of the staircase incorporates three built-in speakers, on different heights. From it, the poem ‘The Street and the Bush’ – read by artist Anouk De Clercq – about guilty landscapes is heard. As installation art, Speaker offers the visitor a multi-sensorial and interactive experience. Inside the greenery, the atmosphere feels closed off. Climbing Speaker feels liberating. It creates an atmospheric contrast, that pulls the visitor out of the landscape.
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