Silent Forest, by Dr. Nigel Helyer

Silent Forest

by Dr. Nigel Helyer

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Silent Forest proposes that we listen to a cluster of silences decreed by political and military power and is constructed as a tracing of colonial and neocolonial relationships that link cultural form with political force. The installation, together with its accompanying radio broadcast, weave a sonic web between a natural environment under chemical siege (the defoliation of the Mekong Delta) and the high culture of Western Opera, here exemplified by the French built HaNoi Opera House. The massive deployment of dioxin defoliants in VietNam to create an Ecological silence is metaphorically linked to the prime function of the HaNoi Opera, employed as both a sign and transmitter of the colonial process and charged with the task of extinguishing the traditional with the Imperial.

The sound-installation consists of two multi-source sound delivery systems – one modelled on early warning sirens, which act as an incongruous image to ironically link the technologies and soundscapes of Warfare with the technologies of Music culture. The second gallery space houses a sonic forest pregnant with absence.

Dr Nigel Helyer (aka DrSonique) is a contemporary polymath whose work links Art and Science, or more accurately Poesis and Techne in a strong embrace of the environment, identity and cultural history. He has an international reputation as a sculptor and sound-artist who creates large scale sound-sculptures, environmental artworks and inter-active bio-art projects that prompt the community to engage with their cultural histories, identity and sense of place. His works are an open invitation to examine the abstract conditions of our world and our complex relationships to it.

Helyer web-archive — www.sonicobjects.com

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released June 23, 2020

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