Oliv­er Beer

Oliv­er Beer works at the inter­sec­tion of archi­tec­ture, sound and image, explor­ing the con­nec­tions between space, objects and acoustics. Informed by his train­ing in fine art, musi­cal com­po­si­tion and film the­o­ry, his projects – often tak­ing the form of large-scale instal­la­tions, live per­for­mances, sculp­ture and video – are research based and use orig­i­nal tech­niques to test and manip­u­late the expe­ri­ence of sound. Inter­est­ed in the res­o­nant fre­quen­cies of objects and archi­tec­ture he devis­es work that stim­u­lates the unique voice of emp­ty space. His ongo­ing ​‘Res­o­nance Project’ (2007-) has trans­formed the Cen­tre­Pom­pi­dou, MoMA PS1, and an Ottoman ham­mam, dur­ing Istan­bul Bien­nale (2015), into ​‘archi­tec­tur­al instru­ments’ pro­duc­ing audi­ble com­po­si­tions born from their inher­ent notes. Per­formed by trained singers, often along­side ​‘two dimen­sion­al sculp­tures’, instal­la­tions and films, which splice through recog­nis­able objects and nar­ra­tives, Beer encour­ages a re-assess­ment of sen­so­ry per­cep­tion. As he has said of his sculp­tures, ​‘These…are a way of hear­ing with our eyes – or see­ing with our ears.’