In 2018 Outset Estonia supported the presentation of Marianne Jõgi’s outdoor installation Interaural Contour I at Battersea Park during the London Art Night festival.
Outset Estonia supported Interaural Contour I when it was first opened to the public at the Estonian Open Air Museum in 2017. In London, the installation for Art Night was created in collaboration with curator Hanna Laura Kaljo. The immersive sculpture was accompanied by composer Ülo Krigul’s sound piece Water Itself. Interaural Contour I was an architectural installation, an acoustically active environment, whose mathematical structure promoted relaxation, wellbeing, and supported learning. Substantiated by neuroscientific research and drawing from artist Marianne Jõgi’s background in music theory, sculpture, and engineering, the event offered a particular sensorial experience. Pointing to the connectivity between our inner vibrations and those in outer space, the project invited the viewer to consider the reciprocity between the psychological and physical, the personal and environmental, as ultimately sustaining an healthful, earthly dwelling. Marianne Jõgi’s project was presented by the artist, composer Ülo Krigul, curator Hanna Laura Kaljo and the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center.
Art Night is London’s largest free contemporary arts festival. Each year the festival partners with a leading cultural institution and curator, focusing on a different area of London to explore its distinctive identity, culture and architecture through various forms of art. The 2018 edition transformed the Thames riverbank between the South Bank and Battersea Power Station with Ralph Rugoff and the Hayward Gallery team have curating the projects by 12 internationally renowned artists in the main program.
Marianne Jõgi (b. 1983) lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia. She received her MA degree in installation and sculpture from the Estonian Academy of Arts and is currently a PhD student at the Tallinn University of Technology, where she is researching architectural acoustics and novel environmental technologies. Her spatial works provide conditions for viewing the world through a blend of architectural form, cyclical interactions between the human and the cosmic, and the concept of life-supporting mental and physical environments. She has taken part in exhibitions and creative projects since 2005. In 2013, Jõgi was awarded the Young Artist Award for her installation Inaudibles.
Interaural Contour I was on view at Battersea Park in London, England during London Art Night from July 7 to July 8, 2018.
