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Nikita Gale invites you to imagine a post-apocalyptic world in which humans no longer exist. What would this world sound like? As Gale puts it: “Any fantasy that humanity may have about its future is circumscribed by the reality of rising sea levels and an increasingly hotter atmosphere.”.
The drums, snares and cymbals in DRRRUMMERRRRRR are placed in such a manner that each drumkit cannot be played by one person simultaneously. Instead they are played by water. Using the sound of streaming water on the drums, Nikita Gale wonders how silence, sound and visibility can be combined with questions about the climate.
Gale has made various versions of the artwork DRRRUMMERRRRRR between 2019 and 2021, but created a extended, space-filling version of the installations for Nest in Laak.
With a background in anthropology and archeology, American artist Nikita Gale (1983) questions the role of power in policial, social and economical systems by looking at objects and...More
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Nikita Gale invites you to imagine a post-apocalyptic world in which humans no longer exist. What would this world sound like? As Gale puts it: “Any fantasy that humanity may have about its future is circumscribed by the reality of rising sea levels and an increasingly hotter atmosphere.”.
The drums, snares and cymbals in DRRRUMMERRRRRR are placed in such a manner that each drumkit cannot be played by one person simultaneously. Instead they are played by water. Using the sound of streaming water on the drums, Nikita Gale wonders how silence, sound and visibility can be combined with questions about the climate.
Gale has made various versions of the artwork DRRRUMMERRRRRR between 2019 and 2021, but created a extended, space-filling version of the installations for Nest in Laak.
With a background in anthropology and archeology, American artist Nikita Gale (1983) questions the role of power in policial, social and economical systems by looking at objects and...More