Mind the Gap, 2019

New artworks by Mia Thom as part of “PhotoPlay”

Fuga, 2019 (ongoing), Polaroid emulsion lift onto cotton paper, 8'x10'

Notes on Black Holes i, 2019 ,490mm x 640mm, Handprint on Hahnemuhle paper

Notes on Black Holes iii, 2019 ,490mm x 640mm, Handprint on Hahnemuhle paper

Notes on Black Holes iv, 2019 ,490mm x 640mm, Handprint on Hahnemuhle paper

Notes on Black Holes v, 2019 ,490mm x 640mm, Handprint on Hahnemuhle paper

Except from the artist statement:

In the photographic series, “Notes on black holes,” interdisciplinary artist, Mia Thom engages with various musicians to explores a rearranging and repositioning of performance through “listening first” and “responding with” (the environment). In this work, the performers respond through improvisation to a series of texts, images and sounds on black holes. Amoung these references is the first image of a black hole as released in April this year, which subsequently went viral. Thom considers our visual bias though exploring a response through sound; why do we believe something exists only when we are presented with visual evidence? Other reference includes the sound of two black holes colliding as well thoughts on “the cosmos without us”(Beier & Wallin, 2017). Made through the movement of sound production, lights are attached to co-ordinates on the respective instruments which, during the +- 10 minute exposure, burn into the light-sensitive film, leaving the traces of the invisible performer.

Imagine the lowest note in the universe

Swallow it whole

Hum the note Bb

Slowly descent

until your voice

dissapears

Count 57

Black hole sound-poem

Mia Thom