Azimuth of Mēdeia [parole confusion]
Year: 2021, 2022
Material/Technique: Sound
Size: Variable
Edition: Not Set
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About the Work
- Year
- 2021, 2022
- Material/Technique
- Sound
- Size
- Variable
- Edition
- Not Set
- Signed
- Not Set
- Frame
- Not Set
- Work Certificate
- Not Set
- Category
- Installation
- Style
- Energy, Conceptual, Minimalism
Work Details
Azimuth of Mēdeia [parole confusion]
5 Flickering fluorescent lamps (glow starter), 5 AM radios, speakers (5ch), etc.
2022 / 2021
《Azimuth of Mēdeia [parole confusion]》
Exhibition: Critique Series Vol.1 “Objective Counterpoint | 20←”
@Funabashi Citizen's Gallery, Funabashi-Chiba, 2022
The work is a sound installation composed of 5 sets of fluorescent lamps, fluorescent light fixtures, speakers, and AM radios, respectively.
Use fluorescent lights that “flicker” when they get old and are on the verge of being completely cut off.
Even when the radio tries to receive audio broadcasts in real time, radio waves just before reception are disturbed by flickering fluorescent lights (electromotive power/voltage drop), amplified as various noises, and are pronounced. The medium wave band of AM radios is particularly susceptible to this electromagnetic noise.
As a result, the flickering of the fluorescent lamp and the noise interfering with the radio sound seem to be synchronous/audible, but there are actually no cables directly connected between the fluorescent lamp and the radio. This synchronizing (appearing to be) phenomenon occurs because the irregular flickering of fluorescent lamps and the associated appearance of interference caused by an invisible radio wave magnetic field are simultaneously occurring in the sound.
Today, regardless of radio, invisible electromagnetic waves are flying in space at all wavelengths and for all purposes, and people, including me, are unconsciously coordinating them as part of their lives.
However, even by confronting and colliding in contrast to coordination, the essence of things is revealed from a different perspective than before. As the language and music played from the AM radio and the semantics of old fluorescent lights collide and confuse each other, rather, the essence of each thing sparkles and asserts each other.
Fluorescent lights have an angle (orientation), but this is not just at-random, but represents the reception angle of the radio when “above” is assumed to be north from the horizon. The angle and impression inevitably change depending on the arrangement of fluorescent lights, the location and distance of the broadcast transmission station, and the place where they are displayed.
《Azimuth of Mēdeia [parole confusion]》
Exhibition: SICF23
@Spiral Hall (Spiral 3F), Aoyama-Tokyo, 2022
《Azimuth of Mēdeia [parole confusion]》
Exhibition: As long as the sun's in there / my last blue minute
@Chiba Citizens' Gallery Inage, Chiba, 2021
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Artist
Born in Chiba in 1997. Using “thingness” and phenomena as clues, they are presenting installation/multi-media works that expand the 20th century as an object seen from the 21st century and its self-identity as a subject. In addition to being a contemporary artist, he is also active as a musician under the name “Musʼc.” He was influenced by 20th century contemporary music and contemporary art, triggered by musical works by Toru Takemitsu, which he came into contact with since the age of 14. From the viewpoint of the 21st century as an age where art is not technology, but with a method of quoting things (objects/matter) of 20th century art based on that place, they create and present cross-disciplinary and introspective works that make full use of all materials and media. Based on my own musical experience, many of his works are installation art using sound in particular. In addition to being a contemporary artist, he is also active as a musician/composer “Mus'c.” Major exhibitions in recent years include “Well-Being” (Gallery K/Kyobashi, Tokyo), “SICF23 EXHIBITION Winners Exhibition” (Spiral/Aoyama, Tokyo), “ZOU-NO-HANA FUTURESCAPE PROJECT 2022" (ZOU-NO-HANA Terrace/ZOU-NO-HANA Park, Yokohama), Critique Series vol.1 Yuga Soma-Uéno: solo exhibition “Objective Counterpoint | 20←” ( Funabashi Citizen's Gallery, Chiba), etc. Participated in solo and group exhibitions at the “Center Line Art Festival Tokyo” and other events ('21 to '24). Major awards include the Sakichi Sato Award 2023 - Excellent Advertising Art Award (from yoowa vol.0 “Spring Spring”), the “SICF23” Shinji Ohmaki Prize, the 2nd ISAC International Composition Contest Special Prize (Special Prize), and the Shimamura Gakki “Torecon 2022” Grand Prix Instrumental Division Excellence Award. “Bicycles, fluorescent lights, and radios, for example, are materials that often appear in my works, but the reason why there is almost no deformation or division applied to them is that while maintaining an arbitrary relationship between the material and its meaning, they are inevitably accompanied by such strong practicality that it cannot be applied. I am inseparable, and I don't have enough strength to be connected. The relationship between those “things” used/used (unconsciously) with people is negotiation and confrontation rather than coordination, and the incompatibility between materials and works, works and viewers, genre A and genre B, and people underlies the lack of compatibility between people in production expression.”
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