Crossover, 2008 site-specific sound installation, HSS sound system (ultrasonic high directional sound speakers), software: Symmetric Deconstructor 1.0, PC, digital sound card, metal tripods, live sound environment (via condenser microphone), dimension variable; Crossover Studio, 2007-2008 DV-video, colour, sound, 20’40’’ loop

Crossover is a device for capting, deconstructing and reconstructing sound presences. By means of a system of ultra-sound directional loudspeakers, conducted through the software Symmetric Decosntructor (created by the artist in collaboration with sound engineer Jesús Gestoso), a sound spectrum is divided in four and projected on a targeted spatial zone. When the visitor comes to the area of wave crossover, the schizoidly sound is reconstructed in his perception. However, what he can hear is the reproduction of a distant phenomenon, words or noises. A violent shock occurs between two different contexts, a presence lacking its corporality appears in a phantom-like manner. Functioning always as a live installation, Crossover brutally dismantles the relationship between landscape and consciousness.

This video traces three critical moments in the research for Crossover, which started through the summer 2007. At Bilbao studio, Spain, one can see the acoustic engineer Jesús Gestoso adjusting the Symmetric Deconstructor software for its Crossover application using omni-directional speakers. In Toulouse, France, the visit of HSS factory and test of directional systems with the chief engineer of the workshop. At Ivry-sur-Seine, the visit of the space by Germán Navarro, in the company of ANNE+ directors, and the negotiations with a commercial engineer about sound systems to be used for the site specific installation.

Make a Forest (Larrabasterra) Richter’s Display, MAF Étant Donné, MAF Shelley, 2008 HDV-video, 4’33’’ and digital photography (16:9) edition 1/3 + 1AC

The projection comprises five tracks corresponding to several moments or formulations of the project: two video sequences (Make a Forest (Larrabasterra) and Mikele Shooting Videos) and three photographic moments (Richter's Display, MAF Étant Donné, MAF Shelley). It focuses elliptically on the conditions of perception of "nature" to the extent it is transformed by our contemporary experience of technology. The fixedness of images acts as a vector of the forest's noise (silence), interweaving with the camera's silence (noise) while recording. Several levels of discourse manifest and superpose; the evidence of representation covers that of the (technological) device that makes it possible; the image is framed by the blindspots allowing it to appear.

Erroll’s Colored (Make a Forest series), 2008 lambda print, 190 x 125 cm

This is the only image not appearing in Make A Forest video - it is, thus, an almost allegorical representation of the blindspot allowing the construction of landscape. The texture of the image highlights the repression of the technological in the perception-construction of landscape. The connexion between Crossover and Make A Forest is structured by critical relationships between presence, perception, technology and representation. While Crossover is invisible presence, Make A Forest is visible absence. In the opposition between representation and situation codes, both projects cross paths. Make A Forest is not a metaphor, there is no subordination vis-à-vis Crossover - it is, rather its counterpoint.

Inigo Cabo (1970). As an artist and theorist, Iñigo Cabo has published critical works as Nueva Objetividad (Espais prize, 2001) and organized large multimedia projects, in order to generate cross-disciplinary platforms of collective production. Among his most recent projects, we could mention Workshop #2 at Musica Ex Machina Festival (Bilbao, MEM - Quito, UTE, 2004), Closing Time (Université de Paris I La Sorbonne - Biennale de Paris; Bilbao Arte Fundazioa; Universidad Autonoma de Quito, 2006-2007), or Visual Appointments (Fondation BilbaoArte, Bilbao, 2007). He has received the support from institutions like Fondation La Caixa (Barcelona), Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst-DAAD (Berlin) or Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao). He works as a teacher at Bilbao Fine Arts School and as artistic director of the new Alhondiga Bilbao Center.

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