The kinetic sound installation A Large Inscription by the Montréal-based Canadian artist Adam Basanta consists of four elements: a microphone mounted on a rotating microphone stand, a motor, two guitar amplifiers, and a field of gravel.In a constant rotary pattern, the head of the microphone draws a circle in the gravel. This minimalist assemblage, or a “durational performance for a machine” as Basanta himself calls it, negotiates the elementary concepts of time, space, matter, and sound, charging itself with dichotomies. While A Large Inscription conjures the image of Buddhist Zen rock gardens, places of silence and meditation where time seems to have come to a stand still, its harsh abrasive energies dominate on an acoustic level in a continuous drone that unfolds in its very sluggishness.

Admission free!
Curated by Shilla Strelka (artistic director, Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche)