Progress Barks (2022) by Rubén Grilo and Robert M. Ochshorn is an exhibition installation linked to the series of performances Interval #1* where the turn tightens, a cowbell, with Noela Covelo Velasco.

where the turn tightens, a cowbell is a programme dedicated to practices related to sound. It traverses everything that happens between speaker, place and body: it involves every part and questions for whom these structures we call sound systems serve and where they are going.

In the room on the ground floor of the centre, a technical configuration has been installed. The abrupt sounds that can be heard come from the piece by Rubén Grilo and Robert M. Ochshorn, Progress Barks, a system of speakers that questions what a machine does when it is taught to bark.

Progress Barks has been produced by Lo Pati - Centre d’Art Terres de l’Ebre, Amposta

Rubén Grilo (Lugo, 1981) is an artist who currently lives in Berlin. His work examines in depth the potential of art for exploring our relationship with technology. Grilo has shown his work at Lo Pati - Centre d’Art Terres de l’Ebre, Amposta (2022); at CentroCentro, Madrid (2019); at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (with Metaphysics, 2018); at Union Pacific, London (2016); at the 13th Berlin Biennale (2016); at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2015) and at CSS Bard, New York (2011), among other places. He received the Fundación Botín grant (2013) and was a resident at Gasworks in London (2015) and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (2011-2012). His first monograph, Worn Not, was published by Puente Editores in 2024.

Robert M. Ochshorn (California, 1987) is a software engineer, cultural theorist and media researcher based in Brussels and New York. He develops unusual digital interfaces for observing and activating sound, video, touch and language. He is interested in how new communication tools enable new social practices and vice versa. Ochshorn is co-founder and CEO of Reduct.Video.