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"Dark Snow #2", wall painting, exhibition "La Nube Loca", Espacio La Rebeca, Bogota, 2004

"Soundsystem (la rebeca)", sound installation, exhibition "La Nube Loca", Espacio La Rebeca, Bogota, 2004

This piece mixed my interest in site-specific installation with the collection of music as a parallel activity to "visually based" creation. The house where La Rebeca gallery was located had a third floor that was mostly used as a storage space, with low ceilings and divided in two rooms. I made two holes in two corner features, which contained a real (but visually virtual) empty space between the roof and the wall; in these holes I connected two speakers, which transformed the space, and eventually the whole house, into sound containers. I then collected 4 hours of music from my personal collection, made them into one Mp3 CD that played constantly these 4 hours. As music went through and into architecture one could not be sure if the role of sound and music was one of enjoyment or one of real interaction, as louder the base sound was, walls vibrated.

Extract from press release: "Felipe Mujica’s Soundsystem is part of a series of work that examines music as a medium that is both culturally and historically overdetermined but than can be utilized visually for its diverse possibilities of spatial materialization (understood as sculpture or installation). In contrast to sound art which establishes a formal or even antagonistic relationship to music, Mujica is interested here in constantly signaling back to the cultural function of his sources—he primarily uses sounds that have already had widespread circulation via CDs, records, radio, television, etc, and that make reference to previous historical situations, or simply reflect personal tastes. Felipe Mujica lives in Brooklyn, New York where in addition to being an artist he considers himself to be a low-fi DJ."