WESTERN FRONT – Cordillera

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Cordillera

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Cordillera was an installation by Hildegard Westerkamp presented as part of the festival Music From the New Wilderness. Text-based wall works and an original composition based on the poems of Norbert Ruebessat came together to create an acoustic environment in Western Front’s gallery.

A row of posters printed with poems are hung on a wall with push pins. The first poster reads the echo, returning from the valley, does not recognize my voice, the wind will not release the presence of a breathing thing, sheer rock is faceless fact, waterfall thoughtless waterfall, tightens, tightens, bends from the mountainlip, leans into air, burns into gravity, there where the fish feed silent, as bubbles.

Eight posters with text are mounted in a row on a wall on top of a long strip of dark paper. A speaker is positioned on a plinth draped in fabric on the floor in front.

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1980

Music From the New Wilderness

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Hildegard Westerkamp: Cordillera, installation view, May 16 – 23, 1980.
Hildegard Westerkamp: Cordillera, installation view, May 16 – 23, 1980.

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