Shih Chieh Huang creates sculptural ecosystems using computer parts and common objects, such as plastic bags and bottles, which he animates in installations that mix a machine aesthetic with an organic impulse.
dennis and erik oppenheim, a feed-back situation (1971)
“I originate movement which Erik translates and returns to me. What I get in return is my movement fed through his sensory system.”
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Lee Jung, an artist from Seoul, Korea, has recently exhibited a series of gorgeous photographs of light installations in an artist statement at ONE AND J. Gallery. Lee explains how she was influenced by the Roland Barthes essay, A Lover’s Discourse, that tells the story of the ineptitudes of people in love. Lee responds to Barthe’s character who searches on end for signs that he is in love, imagining sweet nothings as glowing neon city signs that express cliche statements of both happiness and hatred that she had come across in television, movies and on the internet. The deserted locations of the signs and the resounding emptiness of city lights create these beautiful photographic moments.
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Joachim Koester, Tarantism (performance still)
Tarantism is a condition in Southern Italy resulting form the bite of the wolf spider, known as the tarantula. The bite causes numerous symptoms from nausea, difficulties in speech, delirium, heightened excitability and restlessness in the victims. Their bodies are seized by convulsions that previously could only be cured by a sort of frenzied dancing. This ‘dancing-cure’ emerged during the Middle Ages and eventually evolved into the highly stylized dance for couples which today is known as the The Tarantella. In his film Tarantism Koester has set out to explore the original promise of the tarantella phenomena: a dance of uncontrolled and compulsive movements, spasms and convulsions. The film is structured like a game, utilizing this idea to generate the movements of the dancers. In six individually choreographed parts the dancers attempt to map the fridges or “terra incognita” of the body. (via)
This was a man, dressed as a plant, making pigeon noises at people walking by. I said hello, asked if it was okay to take his picture, and then asked why he was dressed as a plant. He said, “I’m just working through some stuff. Thank you for asking. No ones asked yet.”
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