ARTIS Zoo, the Netherlands, 2019

Sheng-Wen Lo

You are invited to join us on 20 February for the public opening of the new Foam 3h exhibition with a musical performance by Yung-Tuan Ku.

<p>With this public opening, Foam 3h kicks off 2020 with Sheng-Wen Lo&rsquo;s (Taiwan, 1987) exhibition <em>Extendable Ears</em> (2019). This project shows how, for a month, Lo continuously exposed himself to ultrasound waves in order to investigate the subjectivity of sound experience. Ultrasound waves exceed the audible human capacity, but can be heard by animals such as cats and dogs.</p>
<p>During the opening of<em> Extendable Ears</em>, the Taiwanese percussionist Yung-Tuan Ku will perform the piece <em>Do you hear them sing?</em> The piece is inspired by and created for this exhibition. By using different objects that create ultrasound waves, like a snare drum and a bat detector, the percussionist lingers between the hearable and the inaudible. Afterwards, there will be time to view the exhibition, have a drink and meet the artist.</p>
<p><a href="https://foam.org/museum/programme/sheng-wen-lo-extendable-ears"><img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x298/4e538667d0/vlcsnap-2019-12-19-21h36m20s256_595x298.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="298" /></a><br /><sub><em>Sleep-time Recording,</em> 21-06-2019 &copy; Sheng-Wen Lo</sub></p>
<p><em>Extendable Ears</em> consists of Lo&rsquo;s documentation of his month-long experiment. His findings are reproduced in 360<sup>o</sup> photos, videos of his everyday activities, surveillance-style images of Lo sleeping, and photographic scans of the dream diaries he kept during the experiment and shortly before it began.</p>
<p>In Lo&rsquo;s view, human-animal relations reflect the values, attitudes and collective memories that people have with respect to their environment. Lo encourages audiences to discuss the relationship between humans and animals. His investigative, yet slightly absurd approach to these issues allows the audience to think about deeply serious topics from a humorous and playful point of view.</p>
<p><a href="https://foam.org/museum/programme/sheng-wen-lo-extendable-ears">&gt; Read more about this exhibition</a></p>
<p><em>This exhibition is made possible with the support of the Van Bijlevelt Stichting and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten.</em></p>
<p><em>Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.</em></p>


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<p><strong>Thursday 19 March<br /></strong>from 17.30 hrs onwards</p>
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Opening & performance: Sheng-Wen Lo

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<p>For one month, Artist Sheng-Wen Lo (Taiwan, 1987) exposed himself to ultrasound waves that exceed the human range to tackle the human-centric experience of noise.</p>
<p>In many of his projects, Lo discusses the relationship between humans and non-humans in contemporary societies. In <em>Extendable Ears,</em> he created a wearable device that enabled him to hear ultrasound waves in the way that some pets do. Although it is proven that these waves can cause damage to animals, humans are unaware that they produce these ultrasound waves. Lo wore the device day and night, and captured his daily experiences in videos, 360&deg; photographs, and photographic scans of a dream diary he kept during and just before his experiment.</p>
<p><img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x750/ae26e9f422/sleep-time_recordings__2019_c_sheng-wen_lo_595x750.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="750" /><br /><sub><em>Sleep-time Recordings, 2019 &copy; Sheng-Wen Lo</em></sub></p>
<p>ABOUT SHENG-WEN LO<br />Sheng-Wen Lo (Taiwan, 1987) is currently an artist-in-residence at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He obtained a MA in photography at the Academy for Art and Design St Joost in the Netherlands. He completed an MsC in Computer Science from the Computer Music Lab at National Taiwan University. Lo is creative director of Lightbox, a public photo library and a center of contemporary photography at Taipei. He was a nominee of the Foam Paul Huf Award (2019) and the Prix Pictet Photography Prize (2019), and a fellowship recipient of De Nederlandsche Bank and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds/Prince Claus Fund (2019). His recent works were shown in EYE Filmmuseum, World Press Photo, BredaPhoto, LhGWR and Fotofestival Naarden in The Netherlands.</p>
<p>Visit and revisit Foam 3h: Sheng-Wen Lo -<em> Extendable Ears, </em>other exhibitions and&nbsp;<a href="/nl/museum/programma/voor-leden">events</a>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<a href="/nl/over-ons/lidmaatschappen">Foam Member</a>.</p>
<p><em>This exhibition is made possible with the support of the Van Bijlevelt Stichting and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten.</em></p>
<p><em>Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.</em></p>


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