Channa Boon

donderdag 11 april 2024

Ensemble HAHA - Helicopter The Hague, Summer 2022

dinsdag 12 mei 2020

ATTUNEMENT

Following ceramic acoustic bodies that linger and play in a forest in The Netherlands on a Spring day.
Filmed in Park Reigersbergen in The Hague.
Camera: Channa Boon
Sound: Channa Boon
With thanks to the European Ceramic Work Centre, Holland
Magda Guruli, Tbilisi, Georgia, Park Byoung - Uk, Seoul, South Korea.
Made for LINKED OBJECTS, 9Dragonheads Korea, Spring 2020

dinsdag 21 april 2020

Modular Khachapuri

Ceramics used with pouring technique, fired at different temperatures, 65 different sound objects. Produced during a residency in the EKWC in The Netherlands.

KHACHAPURI is a growing community of ceramic, acoustic objects, inspired on the Georgian dish ('Khachapuri': a pointy bread with an egg in the middle) that together form a percussion instrument. Due to the production process, each object differs in tone when struck. Bread and the oven were sacred in the early agricultural cultures of the Neolithic; the symbolic consumption of the body of Christ in the form of bread and wine (the body and blood of Christ) stems from here and is connected to the original symbols of the Mother Goddess. Sound also 'played' an important role in the Neolithic. This can be found, for example, in the hypogeum on Malta; one around 2500 B.C. man-made underground space in which extreme sound resonances are possible and which is part of a large Neolithic temple complex. By playing the Khachapuri, the 'bread' is 'consumed' by the body on a different level; on a more subtile, acoustic level, that of sound.

Live performances: Theater Scheltema (020202020 space event), TESTCASE EKWC and Kunstinstituut MELLY Rotterdam (during 'My Oma').

woensdag 26 juli 2017

Stand Up Satellite

What if a satellite disk does not transmit any far away signals, but stays in the hood and becomes each time more self observed and narcistic when we approach it? If we give it a closer listen, is it the rhythm of our own veins that we hear or our ancestors speaking to us? With whome do we communicate, if we do, at all?
duration: 12'
performers: Channa Boon: voice, Donia Jourabchi: feed back
© Channa Boon 2017. In collaboration with Helicopter The Hague

woensdag 14 december 2016

Sonata Obscura

An orchestra pit is dug out, a piece is played
at the beach and Neolithic sculptures are their witnesses
one channel video - installation, loop, 7':00"
ceramics, wood, carpet.
composition Siglinde Burghouts
performers: Siglinde Burghouts, Channa Boon
audience: Sara Pape Garcia, Jan Huygen with many thanks to Thom Vink
© Channa Boon 2016. In collaboration with w139

zaterdag 28 november 2015

La Pizia e la Marangona

Lecture performance.
An unsuspected visitor provides a completely different take on the lecture a professor is giving. Time becomes more relative than the lecturer ever imagined to argument.
S.a.L.E. DOCKS Venice, Magazinni del Sale, 56th Venice Biennale 2015
composition: Arnold Marinissen
lecturer: Alberto Peratoner
singer: Juliane Dennert
concept, direction, libretto: Channa Boon
total duration: 45':00"
With special thanks to Fondazione Cini Onlus Venice and S.a.L.E. Docks, Magazzini del Sale, Venice.

vrijdag 18 september 2015

COUNTDOWN

The nuclear family is threatening humanity.
It is as destructive as an atomic bomb.
© Channa Boon 2015. In collaboration with Jay Rosenblatt
with courtesy to the EYE Film Archive Amsterdam
Premiered in the EYE Film Museum Amsterdam

zaterdag 24 mei 2014

I am blended by the prism of sunlight that shines through the crystal of your soul

Channa Boon © 2014 video installation - HD video film (6'00"), slides, glass prism, slide projector, video projector,
rotation motor. dimensions projections: 4 x 2.5 mtrs

donderdag 5 september 2013

Sasha

TRAILER
A doctor is send to see his patient: a Russian painter suffering from a serious identitiy crisis.
While the patient's state is worsening, the doctor gets lost thanks to a series of confusing situations.
Shot in Vilnius, Lithuania. With thanks to the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius and Virginija Januškevičiūtė.

zondag 1 september 2013

Sasha

Film about a Russian painter who is suffering from a serious identity crisis.
© Channa Boon 2013. HD video, total duration: 30':00". Filmed
in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Premiered in the EYE Film Museum Amsterdam

maandag 5 november 2012

Salar de Uyuni - Bolivia [trailer]

Trailer van ...from their planet...
filmed in 2007 Salar de Uyuni
© Channa Boon 2012
part of ...from their planet... a tryptich in collaboration
with Sara Rajaei and Antonella Kurzen produced in 2008.
Total duration: 32':00"
Curator: Harm Lux, Berlin.
toured through Europe from 2008 till 2013
Juraplatz, Biel, CH
GfKFB, Kunst Am Flutgraben Berlin
Potzdam Biennale Poland
The Hague Filmhuis The Hague
Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover

woensdag 9 april 2008

Limpiar el Museo

Limpiar el Museo / Cleaning the Museum © Channa Boon 2008

short film and performance during and made for
'El Quinto Pasajero'
taller internacional de arte contemporáneo -

Museo Tambo Quirquincho, La Paz, 2007

curators:

Valeria Paz, Bolivia, Harm Lux, Berlin

Filmed in Museo Tambo Quirquincho, La Paz and the

Salar de Uyuni, Uyuni, Bolivia.

woensdag 2 januari 2008

...from their planet...

KunstFabrik Am Flutgraben, Berlin, 2007

Walchetürm, Zurich, 2009
video tryptich: Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, Kerala, South India, Isfahan, Iran
curator: Harm Lux - Saltmen harvesting salt
during rain season, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

dinsdag 4 december 2007

DIN 1164

General Public Berlin
To - Shi In / Man in the City: 2 channel video installation
32':00" video PAL
filmed in Sincheon appartment complex, Seoul, South - Korea
while being demolished