Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at The Curve in Barbican Centre
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Using birds and electric guitars, it successfully makes a new feeling of a space.
My insight: artifacts vs. nature.
It made me feel like a trial to make nature involved in our artificial world. The birds looked like gadgets making randomised numbers. Making random numbers mechanically is relatively difficult, but nature can do it easily. To be exact, the fundamental scheme is different, digital vs. analog. In that point of view, that relationship could be reversible, which means something "digitally" random could be something "analogically" regular.
Anyway, art works themselves are really conscious. Of course, some artists try to include something random and uncontrollable, but the trials eventually becomes, ironically, trials to control something uncontrollable, or take advantage of them as uncontrollable factors under their "meta” control.
Using birds and electric guitars, it successfully makes a new feeling of a space.
My insight: artifacts vs. nature.
It made me feel like a trial to make nature involved in our artificial world. The birds looked like gadgets making randomised numbers. Making random numbers mechanically is relatively difficult, but nature can do it easily. To be exact, the fundamental scheme is different, digital vs. analog. In that point of view, that relationship could be reversible, which means something "digitally" random could be something "analogically" regular.
Anyway, art works themselves are really conscious. Of course, some artists try to include something random and uncontrollable, but the trials eventually becomes, ironically, trials to control something uncontrollable, or take advantage of them as uncontrollable factors under their "meta” control.
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