Created in 1995 by artists Barrão, Luiz Zerbini and Sergio Mekler, the Chelpa Ferro group presents in Jardim Elétrico a combination of objects, drawings and sound installations created from speakers, lamps, cables and electrical circuits.
This is the case of Jungle Jam, an installation created in 2006 for the exhibition with the same title, which took place at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), in Liverpool, England. The work is made up of thirty identical engines, arranged in a horizontal line on the walls of the exhibition space. Each motor is connected to a pin, and this to a bag. When activated, the motors rotate the pins and, with them, the bags, which hit the walls and produce sounds.
The command that activates the installation comes from a box lit by small lamps placed in a corner of the room, called by the header group. The device controls, via computer programming, the activation and shutdown dynamics of the engines. Like a conductor in front of an orchestra, the head activates the engines at different times, creating, from the same element, varied rhythms, timbres and sound textures.
In addition to Jungle Jam, Chelpa Ferro also presents a series of new works created from the same principle. This is the case of Jardim Elétrico (2008), the work that gives the title to the exhibition composed of colored lamps, speakers, nozzles and electrical circuits.
As stated by curator Moacir dos Anjos in his text for the catalogue, the Chelpa Ferro group “does not propose a unification of the meanings with which the world is understood, limiting itself to indicating the possibility of translating them into one another, without defined hierarchies and in an inescapably truncated way. Instead of advocating the erasure of the differences between the faculties of looking and listening, what the group does is offer, to anyone who approaches their work, a sensorial mix-up.”
Created in 1995 by artists Barrão, Luiz Zerbini and Sergio Mekler, the Chelpa Ferro group presents in Jardim Elétrico a combination of objects, drawings and sound installations created from speakers, lamps, cables and electrical circuits.
This is the case of Jungle Jam, an installation created in 2006 for the exhibition with the same title, which took place at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), in Liverpool, England. The work is made up of thirty identical engines, arranged in a horizontal line on the walls of the exhibition space. Each motor is connected to a pin, and this to a bag. When activated, the motors rotate the pins and, with them, the bags, which hit the walls and produce sounds.
The command that activates the installation comes from a box lit by small lamps placed in a corner of the room, called by the header group. The device controls, via computer programming, the activation and shutdown dynamics of the engines. Like a conductor in front of an orchestra, the head activates the engines at different times, creating, from the same element, varied rhythms, timbres and sound textures.
In addition to Jungle Jam, Chelpa Ferro also presents a series of new works created from the same principle. This is the case of Jardim Elétrico (2008), the work that gives the title to the exhibition composed of colored lamps, speakers, nozzles and electrical circuits.
As stated by curator Moacir dos Anjos in his text for the catalogue, the Chelpa Ferro group “does not propose a unification of the meanings with which the world is understood, limiting itself to indicating the possibility of translating them into one another, without defined hierarchies and in an inescapably truncated way. Instead of advocating the erasure of the differences between the faculties of looking and listening, what the group does is offer, to anyone who approaches their work, a sensorial mix-up.”