A visual art project I'm working on is to exhibit 10 large remixable sculptures in a gallery/museum situation where the installation will change over time-- the sculptures will be remixed and intermixed and accrete meaning as the show evolves/changes.
Each show (say, Tokyo, Paris, etc) will also be context-specific, that is, the installation will take into account surrounding historical, cultural, enviromental influences... (so say a show in Beijing would intermix all works in a form echoing the Great Wall, show in Tokyo would reference manga, and so on.)
Much more detail at my K.I.A. art site HERE(The show is in the proposal stage so please feel free to pass along to any curators or gallery directors or patrons...)
The video is a quick illustration, showing moving and static views of 4 versions of one sculpture (which was made from 6 flat paintings.)
The song in the vid is "Tuktuyuktuk to Timbuktu" by Shinjuku Zulu, and is taken from the "Various Chimeras" CD on iTunes HERE
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Great concept. Why should audio mashup artists and remixers have a monopoly on the fiun? Your sculpture makes me think of cubism in 3D.
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exactly! and other references are cezanne, kurt scwhitters (merzbau esp.), mondrian, keith haring, frank gehry, ...and DJ Kool Herc.
FWIW, it's actually an idea i've been working on for about 20 years, which started in Tokyo when I had to break up my large paintings into panels due to small-working-space restrictions (which you've experienced i know) and I hit upon the idea of spinning, flipping and rearranging the panels to radically change the original image in the work... the first ones were large rectangular works on wood, consisting of four panels... the very first painting referenced a religious icon/crucifix, with the cross symbol in the body, and i knew i was on to something interesting with the remix idea when the cross-shape, in one rearrangement, became a swastica (which of course has many thousands of years of religious meaning long before the nazis corrupted/appropriated it)... I was very intrigued in the whole idea that other "information", unplanned or unforeseen, was embedded already in the work and that the work could take on very different associations even though the base material was the exact same... i also like the idea that the painting is never finished, can endlessly be remixed and intermixed and thus actually gain more layers of meaning over time... and also that the viewer/owner/curator can creatively participate in the remixes (physically, or just by imagining)...
thanks john cheers
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"I was very intrigued in the whole idea that other "information", unplanned or unforeseen, was embedded already in the work"...I see where the merzbau connection comes in...
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Love it.