online version of the exhibition | recommended listening with headphones
na Úrodné půdě, Divadlo Na zábradlí, Prague, 21 October – 25 November 2020
The Takeaway exhibition presents four fragments of the current research of Martin Hurych, who studies at Institute of Sonology in The Hague and is presently focusing on making daily recordings and practising deep-listening. The name of the Takeaway exhibition is derived from the job where Hurych works. While delivering food he records the repetitive activities that often typify his four hours shifts. Afterwards, he analyzes and post-produces the recordings and experiments with his own methods of listening. His job at this takeaway company is still ongoing. During the Takeaway exhibition the website will be a private sonic archive of this business exchange.
In his work, Hurych undertakes a spying mission. As a driver, he is still under control of the employer. Each of his movements, as well as his speed and efficiency are monitored. However, the monitoring apparatus is missing the moment Hurych records himself. Encounter. Thanks. The short intimate moment in the middle of the impersonal metropole which emerges to the composition Dankjewel (Thank you).
In the piece called Birds, Hurych records birds in a city environment and then he selects shots from the captured videos, where he places the field recordings downloaded from the radio aporee (internet sound map aporee) instead of its original sound. In the series of videos birds are allegorically placed into different sound situations as if they patiently watch, listen and identify with us.
The Shift documents the process of the author's movement during his food delivery throughout the city. The Places are conversely the stop in an interesting sound situation and acoustic space.
All of the works are united by perceiving time. The change of perspective emerges in various frameworks in which Hurych investigates urbanism, one’s relation to a city, ecology etc.
Petr Erbes, Boris Jedinák, curators of the exhibition