2021

A multichannel sound installation, at the Duo exhibition ‘Bigger than the door frame’ with artist Nadia Adina Rose (Alfred Cooperative Institute for Art and Culture, Tel Aviv).

channel no. 2 (of 9) – Mouth’s Fence

9 channels sound installation, 2.5/2.5/2.5 m, loud speakers, contact speakers (exciters), headphones, stools. Installation documentation

In the spring of 2021, Covo invited Rose to record a soliloquy, a monologue in which the speaker talks to herself, verbalizing thoughts intended for herself only. The voices of Rose’s thoughts serve as the raw material for the multi-channel sound installation “Gam Gam ve Gam” in which Covo plays within the physical, architectural and cultural space which is created between the internal dialogue and the sampled sound, between stuttering and eloquence. Rose’s voice emits from nine speakers of differing dimensions placed on the edges of the exhibition space. They create a random vocal composition of changing narratives. Rose is a poet and yet she has difficulty speaking. During her childhood and youth, she stuttered and even spent several years in silence.

Excerpt from the sound edit (channel no. 2 – Mouth’s Fence)

Exhibition text

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Graphic interpertation of one of Nadia Adina Rose’s soliloquies