| 19 08 08 / Collaborative Exhibition LIP |
| Thursday, 28 August 2008 20:54 | |
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190808 Collaborative Exhibition at LIP  After a full week of presentation, workshop and discussion, a hectic night of performance, the participants and HONF members held a collaborative exhibition at Lembaga Indonesia Perancis, Yogyakarta (LIP) gallery. At LIP auditorium a recent work video screening from Jakub Nepral (Czech Republic). The works and project that were displayed at LIP auditorium were: Lightbulb | Interactive Installation | Miha Horvat (son:DA, Slovenia) Is | Sound Installation | Adam Sharples (metafunction, UK) Description/Explanation: A retrospective selection of previous works, “Is” represents 3 separate explorations into (un)naturally occurring soundworlds. Presented in a blacked-out auditorium to enhance the listening experience, sensory stimulation is focussed primarily on aural perception to immerse the listener in the soundscapes. The 3 works featured, “Chapter 4” (audio only), “Grab a Piece of Something you Think is Going to Last” & “Ballroom to Garden” (from the upcoming “Whittingham” album), explore soundworlds that have been greatly influenced by human activity. “Chapter 4” composed of electromagnetic noise and interference generated or picked-up by man-made appliances, “Grab a Piece...” which explores the natural soundscapes of Adam’s hometown of Preston, UK over the duration of a year; and “Ballroom to Garden” which aurally maps the gradual reclamation of a derelict mental hospital by the forces of nature. “Is” therefore not only offers listeners the chance to familiarise themselves with Adam’s work, but also provides a space for an active listening experience, to encourage aural sensitivity and to bring awareness to the sonic relationship between living beings and their environment in a visually dominant culture. Untitled | Interactive video environment, performance | no.e saKAna (USA), Leila Abuhilal (UK) Description/Explanation: no.e: Using the medium of multi-layered transparent textile installation, no.e saKAna transforms the projected video image into a multi-dimensioned environment. The visitor is invited to physically enter the projected image to explore it manifested as a multi-planar experience. Video is usually consumed by its audience as a non-interactive medium but the artist, through creating her transparent fabric textile installations, introduces the elements of texture and depth to the usually flattened video image; thus expanding the idea of the video as a one-dimensional medium. It is the artist's aim that the visitor experience the image from many perspectives and multiple planes--the ability to physically enter into the video artist's work enables the piece to be interpreted in many different ways--and also suggests that the viewer become more active with what the medium of traditional video presents; encouraging the viewer to realize there are many perspectives and possible interpretations of reality. Leila: Leila was invited to interact with saKAna’s installation, looking at ways a performer might experience the space, this included using movement, the impact the space has on a body, and what this impact can lead to. Leila is particularly interested in contemporary theatre’s work on the daily and extra daily activities that become art, how these integrate and where the barriers lie. During the exhibition she danced and moved in the space, invited audience members into it, both by acknowledging them and by her presence, meditated upon the multi-dimensioned image, which had the effect of inducing a trance like serenity and ‘safe’ environment, and experimented with the low-tech repetitive movements of Knitting; creating within the space a fabric that repeated the motif of the fabric installations that hung around her. Sixty Three Past… | Video Projection | Aldy (Bandung, Indonesia) Description/Explanation: A video mixing from old Indonesian pre-independence footages, my own footage and footages from a Bob Dylan movie called “I’m not there”, which I created and projected into no.e's interactive video environment. The video was a way for me to remind Indonesian issue for Independence Day of an expression to remembering something, which is very important for us. Serangga | Video Installation | Tengal (SABAW, Philippines) Pure Position | Interactive Audio Visual Installation | Julian ‘Togar’ Abraham (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) Experimental VJ | Interactive Video Installation | Benny Wicaksono (Surabaya, Indonesia) Talkactive | Sound Screening | Jerneja Rebernak (Slovenia) Description/Explanation: Landscapes can be viewed and experienced in a variety of ways, it depends also how you approach the situation, if you tiptoe and listen or if you lock your ears to the ground. In the exhibition space, sharing conversation often transforms into a lively discussion, where the artists amplify their voices and generate more sound in the space itself. on the contrary in the moment of contribution to talkactive, what is important to note is to listen many voices and to open your analog sensors - elaborating on commonalities and creating a closer, more intimate space where contingencies, concepts, metaphors and sculptures become shared experiences. Talkactive are recorded interviews of the many friends of Cellsbutton about the experience of the festival and the exhibition. Boys/Girls | Interactive Sound Installation | Andreas Siagian (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) Description/Explanation: An analog and digital sound installation composed to interact according to the amount of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide from the air and also from the sounds inside the space. Water is a very strong solvent dissolving many types of substances especially Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide (carbonation), which are known as "hydrophilic" (water-loving) substances. By using water as a medium to contain concentrated Oxygen and Carbon Monoxide, a pair aerated reaction tubes and a pair of quadraphonic transducers; I try to simulate the analog sounds of dissolved elements into water inside the reaction tubes. The analog sounds then manipulated by analog mixers and then mixed with a digital sound manipulated by the environment sounds using Pure Data Software. I created this installation due to my concern to the rising of temperature in Yogyakarta from mass emissions from fossil fuel combustion, the current state of Indonesia as the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gas pollution and also the fastest rate of deforestation in the world in between 2000-2005. 350 degrees | Video Installation | Irine Stephanie (Bandung, Indonesia) Description/Explanation: This work created based on some specific places to display on. As basic idea, this artwork took hedoism aura in the club/ dance floor with their lighting equipment, such as mirror ball that strenghten the aura and spread it all over the space. Visual that we built according to those situation showed the other side of its situation, we choose to played an image of a ballerina that dance through all over the room, representing the idea of mirror ball and the lamp reflects. According to the displayed work on LIP gallery, its more likely a documentation of the ideal art form that i've made. Video Screening | Luka Princic, Marko Batista, Marko Ornik, Tanja Vujinovic, Tomaz Tomazin (Sovenia)          |