14 vases
I S S I I S S a
8 humans, 4 sounds & 14 vases
So what does dialogue look like? Who is saying what? What colour are you on about? And also have you see yourself talking?
Besides the streams of data flowing rapidly between fingertips and screen, there are vibrations of voices known as frequencies over small speakers/headphones.
How these are remembered, archived and recorded feels as brief & permanent as a notification about memory running low. So, sometimes a Saturday in a hammock with a joint between two people, not remembered only notes to self are the memory extents of dialogue. Vast & temporal.
Those ancient libraries and now those YouTube channels contain the remnants of narrative as it once did; carved into walls of stone or painted preciously upon ceramic.
Dialogue regardless of where or when or how is a space; it contains, shelters, facilitates, holds, lets pass through/by. Deductively, dialogue exists as place occupied by topics, gestures, emotions, designs and destruction, errors & fumbles, whispers, tears & stutters and laughter and silences.
Dialogue exists as the temporary forever, fading into the immediate past and lingering in present futures of the 'what to say next' and 'how to say it' and 'when not to'. Dialogue, that remains so very every day, simultaneously however so much remains undisclosed and under-discussed. The transparency insisted upon for the well-being of a society of the digital context is that the topics be exposed for measure of safety - however privacy is an entire other topic for another residency project.
This residency seeks to explore how a digital exhibition is able to extrude the digital nature of the conversation as it exists in all its fore mentioned complexity, into form.
Conversations in the form of dialogues between artists. Talking about colour & the sound it makes.
References: 1 The Blue Exhibition [2017] solely discussed through a variety of mediums the colour Blue and produced an emotive set of spatial resonances that allowed for colour to be experience as place. 2 Also an earlier and failed exhibition called ‘This is what dialogue looks like’ aimed to explore the relationship between different artists through only conversation and the production of a single piece that was the epitome of this relationship to other artists. It never occurred yet remained a topic discussed many years after its conception.
8 humans
Humans do so well to define one another by appearance, status, class, cars, shoes, sunglasses, income, job etc, yet we refer to ourselves as genders, with the history of pronouns making its definitive expression of the complexity that it is to feel human and not look or act in ways that society has prescribed through institutional instruction, sometimes harmlessly sometimes deliberately. May I propose that we identify as instead as a vessel, of organs moving around the world consuming energy into order to remain 'living' in the conventional sense of the word however we are a world so natural to the art of death, a dying planet with innovations at the fingertips of minds and beyond an extent of resource or understanding of access to that which is available.
We have not missed the plot. We have merely let the tool of language become undeveloped. As mentioned, pertaining to gender we see a blossoming of new interfaces for dialogue because of the claim to language and a claim to speak – debate – yet as utterings of what doth the sound of the sentence even represent if it doesn’t mean we can be in harmony.... are poetic stumbling's that often mean nothing but a feeling?
We are visual beings but more so, we are hearing beings, the ability to hear and in return speak and thus and this ability to negotiate through narrative, sounds & words are architecture deriving from the master of architecture, humans. This is a map not yet explored, and thus this residency existed as the exploration of the geographies of understanding of language.
Artists
Alex
Annemarie
Dean
Inge
Joy
Keneilwe
Kayla
Nokwanda
Sounds
A | Pink 3 : three conversations about the colour pink or the sound of A
G |Green 3 : three conversations about the colour green or the sound of G
[B] | Red 3 : three conversations about the colour red or the sound of B minor
[C] Orange 2 : two conversation about the colour orange or the sound of C minor
This work expresses a curiosity about the functions of digital art in respect to digital architectures and at the same time a continued curiosity about the abstract territories of language.
From the spectrums of dialogues collected through the different and documented mediums, ie; text, voice etc. an extrapolation will occur in the form of 14 vases, sculpted in the virtual space of AutoCAD and digital eye will follow a deciphered path around this form that then experiences these new histories in conjunction with scripts about today.
Experimenting with processes of related to the making in the digital & celebrating the cryptic matrixes of data of this basic.
Virtual Architectures [for digital residence]
1 x Instagram Post - gif
1 x [S]instagram– text & video – dialogue extract
1 x Vase – 3d model
1 x Dialogue – text/vioce
2 x Points of view – recorded
Actualtectures [for residence realised]
14 x vases – 3d printed models
4 x performances – music / poetry
7 x humans - speakers