Daniel Kiczales: Orientations
Petach Tikva Museum of Art | Until 28 June
Orientations combines Daniel Kiczales’s (b. 1980) various practices—composition, video, and sound—with a multi-participant performative act. Created during the current war year, the work is a visual, vocal, and lingual journey of two choirs moving through the landscape at this time. The role division between the choirs is intentionally simplistic and predominantly gender-based: one consists of twelve women of different ages, producing pre-lingual sounds while traveling in a taxi van on bumpy roads. The jolts of the ride affect the production of the voice and countenance. The rough road becomes a major instrument on the musical and expressive levels, when observation is directed inward, into the crowded space of the vehicle. The women’s choir is affected by a terrain yet unmarked, unpaved, unsettled, and unmapped. The bumpy road becomes a musical score of tremors, rhythmic textures, and leaps, which are an integral part of singing based on loss of control; singing that sometimes sounds like crying or lamentation, at other times like a hysterical, possessed chant, and at yet others like stuttering or garbled speech. The resulting experience is one of disorientation, as the viewers have no idea where they are or where they are headed. The situation is tantamount to blindness or getting lost.
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