_ /bəˈloʊ/ is an exterior sound installation, featuring a pipe emitting an audio file emerging from the ground. The audio file is a lecture from the book How to Analyze People on Sight, written in 1921 by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict.
Above the Below
_ /bəˈloʊ/ is an exterior sound installation, featuring a pipe emitting an audio file emerging from the ground. The audio file is a lecture from the book *How to Analyze People on Sight,* written in 1921 by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict.
The morphology of the artwork forces the listener to assume uncomfortable positions to listen to the file. It takes a while to understand the seven hour file is, in fact, a lecture of a book about the analysis of *poses & postures,* and for the listener to grasph they are probably being analyzed by someone else.
In the words of the Benedicts: “For life is largely a problem of running your own car as it was built to be run, plus getting along with the other drivers on the highway. From this book you are going to learn which type of car you are and the main reasons why you have not been getting the maximum of service out of yourself.”
Credit: Mathieu Zurstrassen
Project Credits / Acknowledgements
Production: M. Zurstrassen, 2019
This work was made possible thanks to the support of *La Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles*
This project is co-funded by the European Commission´s DG CONNECT, in the framework of the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union under the S+T+ARTS programme´s Regional STARTS Centers.
Biography
Zurstrassen bestows added symbolic and philosophic value to his work by tapping into the invisible quality and relationships created between sender and receiver. He uses the codes of craftsmanship to solve aesthetic issues that are often at the border of the indefinable. Mathieu combines the ambiguity of materials with a poetic streak, both delicate and humorous.
