Day Break Rhythm Silence
In ‘Day Break Rhythm Silence’ Ektor Ntourakos focuses on an inner courtyard of one specific housing complex in the south of Rotterdam, which facilitates private and rental households and small businesses, to explore the emergence of a new type of public space. By using the tools and methods of field recording Ntourakos captures sounds from the courtyard to reflect on the importance of an auditory conceptualisation of public space. He collaborates with Bram Ieven, for the processing of the collected data, in a sound piece which consists of field recordings and ambient syntheses to highlight the sonic compositions in the social exchanges between the residents, but also between the residents and the material environment, as constitutive elements of public space.
The exhibition induces the visitors to conceive public space as a fluid and ambient social scape with an affective, aural presence that can invade even the most private spaces and institute its public and social rhythms at the heart of our own private lives.
October 2022, solo show @PuntWG, Amsterdam, the Netherlands