Ultra-Fried

Title: ULTRA-FRIED
Duration: 3 MINUTES & 45 SECONDS
Location: PERFORMED at PROTO THEATER, TAKADANOBABA, TOKYO
Date: 7PM, MONDAY, JULY 23, 2007

Artist's Concept:

ULTRA-FRIED, is a durational sound art installation collaborative project which begun in October 2006. The durational sound collaboration was sourced from four positions of the globe with fellow artist-volunteers (Htein Lin - London , Lynn Lu - Tokyo, Bruno Mercet - France) who exposed ordinary, unlabeled and transparent audio cassette tapes, sealed in glass jars, to the sunlight for months. The sun's rays, depending on their intensity, distorted the sensitive cassette tapes, creating unique impressions on the medium. These tapes were then put together to create one loop, with the audience invited to listen to the sound at the CCP (Cultural Center of the Philippines) exhibition through the intimacy of earphones. The idea of this installation is to capture the noiseless ultra-violet sunlight into sound and represent its effects and the seemingly inevitable damage done to our depleting ozone layer on a global scale, with the use of an on-the-brink-of-disappearance-and-almost-phased-out cassette tapea crude instrument compared to todays high-tech gadgets, store-everything DVDs, SDs and memory cardsto portray the urgency of the cause.

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• ultrafried
• environmental
• ozone
• depletion
• visual performance
• new media
• action art
• performance art
• live art
• nipaf
• seiji
• shimoda
• japan
• tokyo
• takada-no baba
• proto theater