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SIRIUS ARTS: Robert CurgenvenPailliún Aeir i bhFoirm Oscailte Cóbh

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Robert Curgenven’s Pailliún Aeir i bhFoirm Oscailte Cóbh (Cobh Open Form Pavilion of Air) is a floating roof of sound extending over the Naval Pier in Cobh, and is accessed via a smartphone, headphones, and the echoes.xyz app. This work is inspired by Polish architects Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s “Open Form” architectural concept (ca. 1959), and is one of 15 locations in 9 countries in the pan-European “Open Form Pavilion of Air” series. All these works use sound and site-mapping to offer a playful renewal and reframing of public space as an essential place of engagement for the community.


LAUNCH 

Naval Pier (between SIRIUS and the Promenade; access via the stairs to the right of the Promenade)
Thursday, 7 September
7pm EVENT

SIRIUS
Saturday, 16 September
3-5pm
Free; no booking required

Robert Curgenven, Louise Cotter and Jeffrey Weeter discuss the architectural references informing Curgenven’s “Open Form Pavilion of Air” series, notions of the aural and the spatial, the relationship between sound and the built environment, and the evolution and needs of public space as a civic realm.

Louise Cotter is an architect and a partner at Cotter & Naessens.
Jeffrey Weeter is an artist and the Head of the Department of Music at University College Cork

Pailliún Aeir i bhFoirm Oscailte Cóbh (Cobh Open Form Pavilion of Air) is commissioned by SIRIUS, Cobh, and presented as part of Sounds from a Safe Harbour, Cork City.
 
Robert Curgenven, Pailliún Aeir i bhFoirm Oscailte Cóbh (Cobh Open Form Pavilion of Air), 2023. Sound, duration variable. Courtesy of the artist
The Pailliún Aeir i bhFoirm Oscailte Cóbh (Cobh Open Form Pavilion of Air) can only be accessed on-site. By walking through different zones along the Naval Pier while using their smartphone, the echoes.xyz app and headphones, visitors become participatory listeners, producing a composition in real-time. Their navigation creates a unique choreography via GPS, combining and changing sounds mapped along the Naval Pier through the app. They hear the harbourside location become transformed by the many sounds forming this floating acoustic architecture, revealing an immersive, profoundly spatial and physical experience.

Robert Curgenven produces albums, performances and installations emphasising physicality, our embodied response to sound and its correspondence to location, air, weather, and architecture. His festival appearances include the Sydney Festival, MaerzMusik in Berlin, and Cork Midsummer Festival, and he has produced works for the National Gallery of Australia, the National Museum of Poland, and the National Sculpture Factory in Cork.
 
Robert Curgenven, Pailliún Aeir i bhFoirm Oscailte Cóbh (Cobh Open Form Pavilion of Air), 2023. Sound, duration variable. Courtesy of the artist
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