PERFORMATIVE SOUND INSTALLATION
27. - 30. 04. 2022
Morphine Raum
Köpenicker Str. 147, Berlin
DOORS 19:30/ CONCERT:20:00
27.04............Pierre Bastien & Marina Cyrino
28.04...Vinyl -terror & -horror & Marina Cyrino
29.04..............Lisa Simpson & Marina Cyrino
30.04...........Electric Indigo & Marina Cyrino
Sina Ataeian Dena - 360° audiovisual
27. - 30. 04. 2022
Morphine Raum
Köpenicker Str. 147, Berlin
DOORS 19:30/ CONCERT:20:00
27.04............Pierre Bastien & Marina Cyrino
28.04...Vinyl -terror & -horror & Marina Cyrino
29.04..............Lisa Simpson & Marina Cyrino
30.04...........Electric Indigo & Marina Cyrino
Sina Ataeian Dena - 360° audiovisual
Plants Remember You if You Mess With Them Enough
Plants Remember You if You Mess With Them Enough
“Plants Remember You if You Mess With Them
Enough” is an interactive audiovisual installation created by
Marina Cyrino and constructed in collaboration with Rabih Beaini at Morphine
Raum, Berlin.
It is a speculative fabulation around the sounds and
memories of plants in interplay with humans and machines.
The kinetic installation is based on the natural
acoustic sounds of dry tree leaves and on moving shadows. Motorized
wheels touching different leaves generate different rhythmical and
visual patterns. Plants scream and sing and beat.Tree branches and other materials were carefully collected by the
artist in the city of Berlin and surrounding woods.
The installation
will be presented at Morphine Raum in four evenings, in which Marina Cyrino will play the installation together
with the audience. Each evening, a very special guest artist is
invited to perform an experimental concert. Electric Indigo, Pierre
Bastien, Vinyl -terror & -horror and Lisa Simpson will interact
with the installation in their own way, bringing their singular
qualities to the sonic and visual result.
The outcome is a hybrid artistic form that is
simultaneously instrument, installation, performance and shared space
that engages together specialized artists and the general public.
general public.
Plants have evolved between fifteen and twenty distinct senses,
including analogues of our five: smell and taste (they sense and
respond to chemicals in the air or on their bodies); sight (they
react differently to various wavelengths of light as well as to
shadow); touch (a vine or a root knows when it encounters a solid
object), are some examples.
The title of this
project comes from an article published in the New York Times by
JoAnna Klein, which describes the experiment of Dr. Monica Gagliano
and colleagues at the University of Florence. The researchers worked
with the Mimosa pudica species, more commonly known as the
“touch-me-not”, which curls up its leaves in response to physical
stimulation. After repeated exposure with no major harm, the plants
no longer recoiled. Even after a month left alone, the plants
remembered actions which weren’t harmful and ignored them.
Plants remember you,
if you mess with them enough.
Although it has been
revealed in recent years that plants are capable of seeing, hearing,
smelling and even remembering, they are still usually thought of as
silent.
Plants do scream.
Gefördert vom Musikfonds e. V. mit Projektmitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen des Sonderprogramms Neustart Kultur