Eye for Ear, Ear for Eye - by R Casteels

Casteels traces Baudouin Oosterlynck’s transformation from a performing artist to a performance artist, such that the “passive behaviour of (his) listener is completely transformed into an active search”. In sharing Oosterlynck’s intrigue in the relation between sound and non-sound – how we hear through silence, as well as questions on how we relate between what is seen and heard, Casteels had the opportunity to collaborate with Oosterlynck, who had in the 1980s created works of auditory illusion by using the peculiar acoustic properties of existing buildings, in “Sound Journey – from architecture to music”. See Architecture.