The Danube’s Impulses

‘The Danube’s Impulses’ will be exhibited at SCCNS Fabrika in the District on 18 October, as part of the Kaleidoscope of Culture.

The work presents a sound eco-map of the Danube, in the form of an in-site audio-visual installation in a space where the user, travelling through different locations on the riverbank, gets to know the environment and space well. By using authentic sound recordings of the Danube’s course through Vojvodina, the artist singles out the most impressive and ecologically and biologically diverse locations on the banks of the river. Original sound recordings are used for the exhibition. These sounds are then transformed into a visual experience, i.e., graphic representations of water waves.

The project is available in original as well as the adapted form for users with disabilities. The goal of the project is to provide the users with a therapeutic and tactile experience through audio-visual techniques while guiding and introducing them to the new media approach to art. The artist points out the importance of art as a means of rehabilitation in the education and upbringing of children with disabilities and people with disabilities. Their emotional well-being in practising visual arts, as well as musical art disciplines, is manifested through the control of emotional outbursts and raising self-esteem. Art provides people with disabilities and developmental difficulties with opportunities to communicate and cooperate with people without disabilities, which, in a social context, is no less important.

The project is part of the ‘Artists. Now!’ national call for artists, launched by the ‘Novi Sad – European Capital of Culture’ Foundation within the Kaleidoscope of Culture.

From the very beginning, the implementation of the ‘Artists. Now!’ call has been supported by IDEA, which is part of the Mercator-S company.

The partner of the Visual Arts Week is DDOR.