"Body as Interimage"
- Date :
- 2009-04-25(Sat)–2009-08-31(Mon)
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Time :
- 10:00〜20:00
- Closed :
- Tuesdays (the next days if it falls on holiday)
- Venue :
- Foyer / Gallery 2F /
- Admission :
- Free
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* The exhibition period for "Body as Interimage" has been extended.
The new exhibition period is; 4.25 Sat. - 8.31 Mon. (The last day has been extended from 8.10 to 8.31.)
At the occasion of the Steve Paxton exhibition, YCAM hosts a special exhibition introducing the works of three up-and-coming artists as a further step in the Center's exploration of "art, media and physical expression."
The "own body" and the "image of the body" have been rediscovered and exhaustively featured in media-based works of art. While focusing on the double quality of the body - the "Body as Interimage" - the event explores the possibilities and relationships between media technology and the human body today.
The "own body" and the "image of the body" have been rediscovered and exhaustively featured in media-based works of art. While focusing on the double quality of the body - the "Body as Interimage" - the event explores the possibilities and relationships between media technology and the human body today.
■Works in the exhibition
New installation work
newClear + Alessio Silvestrin "skinslides"［commissioned by YCAM］
Conceived as an interface for a permanent preservation of the dancer's movements, this video dane piece is based on the novel idea of producing images and sound first, and subsequently programming a data-choreography out of the single elements. Three displays are embedded in the venues floor, while sensors detect the visitors movements. The displays show vivid projections of the dancer's contact points with the floor and by moving around in the exhibition space, the visitor adds an element of chance to the generated sequences of footage on the displays. （All the sequences are consisted by five parts of scenes, which includes 55 footages.）The soundtrack is composed of the sounds of the body movements and of their contacts with the floor, and music performed by Otomo Yoshihide based on footage of body movements.
Construction: Richi Owaki
Performance: Alessio Silvestrin
Sound: Otomo Yoshihide
Programming: Satoshi Hama (YCAM InterLab)
Technical support: YCAM InterLab
New installation work
Shinichi Takashima "Pascal pass scale"
"Pascal pass scale"
One old and one new work themed on the human body and imagery are being displayed symmetrically in two separate exhibition booths, inspiring the visitor to think about the way we grasp things that are very familiar yet not directly perceivable. By assuming a situation in which body and space can only be dealt with in a prejudiced way, the piece pursues the question "how we can construct our edifice of ideas if neither the real world nor our own perception of it qualify as premises."
■Screening
Video Dance
Saburo Teshigawara "Friction of Time - perspective Study vol.2" （2008）
Saburo Teshigawara "Friction of Time - perspective Study vol.2"
Saburo Teshigawara, a world-renowned dancer and plastic artist who has also been involved with filmic art since the 1990s, produced a video piece in collaboration with the YCAM InterLab staff. Recorded with high-speed cameras as used in sports engineering, car safety experiments and space exploration among others, the artists produced a dance video that focuses on the human body from a new perspective, capturing in a beautiful way and down to the subtle motion of the muscles the movements of Teshigawara's dance.
Co-produced by KARAS, YCAM
New installation work
newClear + Alessio Silvestrin "skinslides"［commissioned by YCAM］
Conceived as an interface for a permanent preservation of the dancer's movements, this video dane piece is based on the novel idea of producing images and sound first, and subsequently programming a data-choreography out of the single elements. Three displays are embedded in the venues floor, while sensors detect the visitors movements. The displays show vivid projections of the dancer's contact points with the floor and by moving around in the exhibition space, the visitor adds an element of chance to the generated sequences of footage on the displays. （All the sequences are consisted by five parts of scenes, which includes 55 footages.）The soundtrack is composed of the sounds of the body movements and of their contacts with the floor, and music performed by Otomo Yoshihide based on footage of body movements.
Construction: Richi Owaki
Performance: Alessio Silvestrin
Sound: Otomo Yoshihide
Programming: Satoshi Hama (YCAM InterLab)
Technical support: YCAM InterLab
New installation work
Shinichi Takashima "Pascal pass scale"
"Pascal pass scale"
One old and one new work themed on the human body and imagery are being displayed symmetrically in two separate exhibition booths, inspiring the visitor to think about the way we grasp things that are very familiar yet not directly perceivable. By assuming a situation in which body and space can only be dealt with in a prejudiced way, the piece pursues the question "how we can construct our edifice of ideas if neither the real world nor our own perception of it qualify as premises."
■Screening
Video Dance
Saburo Teshigawara "Friction of Time - perspective Study vol.2" （2008）
Saburo Teshigawara "Friction of Time - perspective Study vol.2"
Saburo Teshigawara, a world-renowned dancer and plastic artist who has also been involved with filmic art since the 1990s, produced a video piece in collaboration with the YCAM InterLab staff. Recorded with high-speed cameras as used in sports engineering, car safety experiments and space exploration among others, the artists produced a dance video that focuses on the human body from a new perspective, capturing in a beautiful way and down to the subtle motion of the muscles the movements of Teshigawara's dance.
Co-produced by KARAS, YCAM
