Litanies in Zero Kelvin, by Girilal Baars (II)

Installing a musical performance in an atypical surrounding is a way of challenging the concept of performance art. The conceptual, sensual and visual elements of the experience must be taken in account. The obscure inside of the White chapel illuminated in the night creates out of the black box an experience of a shining iconostasis. Through this archway, then, the voices of different traditions reaches us, as through the medium of the artist. The physical experience of standing in the misty, chilly, darkness of the cemetery contribute to the uncanny feeling of standing in a twilight zone, very far from the white cube of a traditional modernist art museum. And eventually, this adds dimensions to the bracketed question in the work title: How to Clear Your Voice?