»MONOLINE« by Berit Greinke and Daniel Weiß (sound) is about the interplay of pencil drawings and sound generation.
»The invention not only enables one to observe and to read a drawing, but also to listen to it.
The artist‘s work is stylized as both laboratory research and work in progress, whilst the aesthetic spectrum of the drawing is enhanced by an acoustic dimension.« Tristan Pranyko
»I begin the drawings in the upper left-hand corner and end in the lower right-hand one. I painstakingly protect the sheets of paper. I vacuum up the graphite dust with a hand-held vacuum cleaner so as not to smudge the drawings when blowing the dust off. The more often I make the same hand movements, the cleaner and more precise the drawings will be. My aim is to get a precisely calculated value from the drawing – but my hand drawing balks against this technoid demand.
The formula for drawing involves no scientific precision, the resistance values achieved are in the range of hundreds of thousands of ohms. But still adhering to my self-imposed scientific rules, I obstinately continue to draw – a minimalist aesthetic emerges.
In the exhibition, the drawings finally go out of control. Their impulsively independent existence becomes evident: they react vociferously to the number of visitors in the room, to people’s proximity, they hiss in rainy weather or receive radio broadcasts. It is roaringly loud.« Berit Greinke
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