Avalanches from Afar

From 21:00 to 9:00 the following day (ongoing)

VENUE: Casino Display, 1, rue de la Loge, L-1945 Luxembourg

In Avalanches from Afar, artist-in-residence Serene Hui presents a hybrid work on the borderline between immersive installation and soundscape. Described as a ‘non-performance’, the piece is a 24-hour meditation on the subtle tension between speech and silence.

Avalanches from Afar has its roots in a reflection on the limits of language and the disruption of direct communication. Drawing on literary references such as Jean-Dominique Bauby's Le Scaphandre et le Papillon, personal stories and Jean-René Toussaint's ‘Stemwerk - Primitive Voice’ method, the artist explores how words, sounds and silences weave together to create a unique space for sensory experience.

The long duration encourages a total letting go, allowing the audience to connect deeply with the fragments of language, sounds and silences that make up the surrounding atmosphere. 

Serene Hui is an artist based in the Netherlands and Hong Kong. Her practice is currently invested in epistemological colonialism for the ways it affects social structures, languages, psychology, and its potential susceptibility for manipulation. Hui’s works are research-focused and multifaceted, engaging primarily with installation, audio and live works, printmaking and text.  

Lam Lai is a composer and music theatre maker based in the Netherlands. By rethinking the concept of music, she explores the interplay of sound, space, and narrative, expanding the boundaries of performance to create spaces where diverse listening experiences coexist in harmony with other art forms. Her interests as a composer extend beyond instrumental music to multidisciplinary works that incorporate electronic soundscapes, theatrical expression, and immersive spatial sound installations. She uses technology as an expressive force within her narratives, insouciantly alternating between profound listening experiences and dynamic spatial encounters.

Photo © Serene Hui