Shifting Perspective: Oliver Beer in conversation with Alexandra Gilliams

Oliver Beer speaks with Alexandra Gilliams for XIBT Magazine.

Oliver Beer's installations, performances, and sculptures welcome the possibility for new perspectives. They are invitations to listen carefully to the world around us, to question and enhance our senses, and distract from the cultural and sensorial signifiers that we have long been conditioned with. We can, for example, hear the spaces within buildings, in addition to observing them, in a way similar to understanding how the interior architecture of a violin resounds its notes. Since he was a child, Beer has had the uncanny ability to walk into a room and detect its resonant frequencies ...