{"id":9595,"title":"Farafra","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2012-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne","cached_tag_list":"audio, installation, sound, audio track","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":13,"permalink":"farafra--2","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Installation","nl":"Installatie","fr":"Installation"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/021/085/large/Tordoir_photo_M_HKA38.jpg?1394715909","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"The Dutch artist Willem de Rooij is Narcisse Tordoir’s colleague at the Royal Academy in Amsterdam. De Rooij’s work endeavours to disrupt the art world’s prevailing conventions.\r\n\r\nFor *Farafra* he edited together different camel noises. When we listen to the different voices, the variety of their tonal range is striking. It is almost as if they are speaking their own language and trying to tell a story. The playful sound of these blaring camels, who clearly want to be heard, stands in sharp contrast to the tragedy of their existence. The camel, after all, is one of the biggest animals in the desert, an animal everyone fears. The sound it makes is close to a lament, leaving us with the impression that its story might be one of extreme loneliness.\r\n\r\nRepresenting a sound system in book form is far from simple. Willem de Rooij asked Narcisse Tordoir to choose a shade of green to represent his work. Tordoir opted for a shade of green from the work of Walid Al Shami, and de Rooij upgraded this green surface into a new work of art. "},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"De Nederlander Willem de Rooij is een collega van Narcisse Tordoir op de Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Via zijn werk probeert De Rooij heersende conventies uit de kunstwereld te doorbreken.\r\n\r\nVoor *Farafra* monteerde hij verschillende geluiden van kamelen. Wanneer we luisteren naar de verschillende stemmenklanken, valt de gevarieerdheid in hun stempalet op. Het is haast alsof ze hun een eigen taal spreken en een verhaal proberen te vertellen.  Het ludieke geluid van deze schallende kamelen die hun stem maar wat graag willen laten horen, staat in schril contrast met het tragische van hun bestaan. Het gaat hier immers om één van de grootste dieren uit de woestijn, waar iedereen bang voor is. Hun stem gebrul klinkt klagend. En het dringt tot ons door dat hun verhaal wel eens heel eenzaam kan zijn.\r\n\r\nEen geluidsinstallatie visueel weergeven in een boek is geen evidente taak. Willem de Rooij vroeg Narcisse Tordoir een bepaalde kleur groen te kiezen om zijn werk te representeren in dit boek. Tordoir koos hierop een tint groen uit het werk van Walid Al Shami. Waarop Willem de Rooij dit groene vlak opwaardeerde tot nieuw kunstwerk. "},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}