Hi all
I don’t
normally post work here but I’m doing so now because I think it might be of
interest to a new media curatorial audience for a number of reasons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrmeEEzQo9I
Firstly it
represents outreach around new media work from a UK gallery ( I have a sound
piece in the current show “ A Modern Romance” at 20-21, made with not dissimilar
methods with 90 under fives in 2009)
Secondly I
think it is a good illustration of how the digital provides a qualitatively
new way of collaborating across widely vary skill levels and artistic consciousness or intentionality. The piece would clearly not exist
without the active engagement of the participants who perform wholeheartedly
& engage quite consciously with it ( and I explained to everyone, apart from the 2 year old and the baby,what the eventual outcome would be ) but it also allows me as an artist/composer
to assemble something which is, I hope, greater than the sum of its
participatory parts – in the case of both this piece and the original sound
piece I view them very much as part of my core practice...my oeuvre :) if you want ..
cheers
michael
|