特別企画展
An Idea Would Make That Sound
スティーヴン・サラザン・キュレーション

本研究科非常勤講師、スティーヴン・サラザン (Stephen Sarrazin) がキュレーションをおこなう特別企画展を、下記のとおり開催いたします。展覧会では、ゲイリー・ヒル、ジョン・サンボーン、ベニー・ネメロフスキー・ランセイ、クレマンス、ヨナ・キナの映像作品が展示されます。

会期：2018年10月25日（木）〜10月26日（金）
時間：10:00〜19:00
※オープニングレセプション：10月24日（水）18:00~
※最終日は17:00まで

会場：東京藝術大学 大学会館展示室
（〒110-8714 東京都台東区上野公園 12-8 音楽学部校内）
入場料：無料

コンセプト:
この展覧会 An Idea Would Make That Soundは、ギャラリーの文脈の中で口承的なメタスペースをを探求している5人の作家を集めたものです。それぞれの作品は一定の枠組みをもっています。音声は、リアルタイムで録音されたか、そうでなければ映像に先行し、あるいは事後的に付けられた楽譜によって作られています。このことによって、画像に収められていない未完の映像に観客が関与することを可能にする物語が形成されるだけではなく、低く抑えられた音量と作品同士の近接性によって 「物理的な親密性」を問題に付し、ジャック・ランシエールが「映画のインターバル」と呼んだものが究極的に生み出されるのです。

Gary Hill
2010-11, 12min
Isolation Tank is a single channel HD video projection and is entirely computer generated (the sound has been generated with an analog audio synthesizer). At first we see a surfboard from afar seemingly drifting in the middle of the ocean. The camera (unseen helicopter) slowly approaches the object until it fills a good portion of the screen. On the surface of the board can be seen a kind of decal. A closer look reveals an almost imperceptible morphing between a visage (perhaps a representation of the artist’s face?) and the image of a Mahakala (a protector of Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism representing the death of the ego). As the sound of the helicopter becomes audible, a rogue wave from nowhere jacks up and throws a wall of water over the surfboard pushing it under water.

 

“Entre Nous” (an echo of the self)
John Sanborn
2017 | 12:22
Music by Dorian Wallace
We live in a time when we cannot trust ourselves. Ignoring what is natural reveals a desire to evaporate. Lives are wasted on folly, ideas are stillborn – our sense of self has been tortured, until what remains is a ghostly reflection.
Renewal comes from destruction as Eros emerges from Chaos. We must reduce until we reach the essence, and then (by force of will) find our soul.
“Entre Nous” is a descant devised to prove the singularity of our existence, taking care to not let nuances or small facts escape, even if they appear indistinct or insignificant. In order for the most banal event to become a voyage, it is necessary to retell the story.
Long before we had doubts, we had souls that could find peace without being judged. Now, we cannot move faster than our shadows.

 

Live to tell
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
2002 | 5min
The artist performs a virtuostic choral rendition of a 1980s Madonna ballad for an audience of sixteen surveillance cameras.

 

Eau de Toilette
Cremance
2010 | 6:22
A retelling of fairy tales through the use of Hollywood horror cinema and silent movies relying exclusively on music and the splendor of its performers.

 

Arr. for a Scene
Jonna Kina
2017 | 5:17
 a documentary of two foley artists while they are producing sounds for one of the most famous film scene in the film history (the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, 1960). This performance is documented on 35 mm film. The original film scene will remain invisible while the viewer sees only the foley artists creating sound effects for the scene. During the performance, the foley artists are looking straight at the camera. The film inverts the position of the screen and the gaze of the viewer. The viewer becomes part of the scene. The film examines the way sounds are constructed for the use of cinema and what happens when the structures of a film are dismantled into parts.

 

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The curator wishes to thank artists Gary Hill, John Sanborn, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Cremance, and Jonna Kina (currently in residence at Tokas) for their gracious cooperation.

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