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Yoel Díaz Vazquez | Cuban
Noise Tower | 2006-2011 | Video installation | at the Casa de la Música de la Fundación EPM
In this work, the artist invites rappers from the underground scene in Havana to speak their mind about life in present-day Cuba through sung interventions filmed in domestic settings. The resulting discourses are invariably critical and express the thoughts of an ample cross-section of the Cuban youth.
The footage is shown on dozens of monitors piled up in the form of a tower, each showing the intervention of one rapper. When approaching the installation environment, the sounds and images from the televisions strike the visitor as something of a cacophony. Getting closer to the tower, his or her attention automatically funnels to a smaller number of stimuli, which stand out from the others. In its physical configuration, the work is a metaphor for the conflict between a public context, in which discourse is reduced to mere noise, and a more private situation, where people can speak and be heard. (From the MDE15 Short Guide)
