Cerith Wyn Evans "The Sky Is Thin As Paper Here...“
Kunsthaus Graz Remix, 2005 Cerith Wyn Evans, The Sky Is Thin As Paper Here… in collaboration with Luis Augusto Pecora Marques Pinto (sound production) and Mathias Gmahl (image production)
With The Sky Is Thin As Paper Here… by Cerith Wyn Evans, Kunsthaus Graz launches a new project for its unique exhibition surface - BIX Media Façade (www.bix.at).
The
BIX concept was initiated and developed by the Berlin based architects
realities:united, and it operates as a matrix of 930 fluorescent lamps
integrated into the eastern Plexiglas façade of the Kunsthaus Graz, an
outstanding example of biomorphic architecture, conceived by Peter Cook
and Colin Fournier. Through the possibility to individually adjust the
lamps' brightness at an infinite variability with 20 frames/second
images, films and animations can be displayed. The BIX media
installation and the Kunsthaus' architecture share a strong symbiotic
relationship. The façade as a display extends the communication range
of the Kunsthaus, complementing its programmatically formulated
communicative purpose. In an abstract and mediated form the media
façade transmits the internal processes of the Kunsthaus out into the
public.
The Sky Is Thin As Paper Here…(Kunsthaus Graz
Remix, 2005) by Cerith Wyn Evans is yet another attempt at mapping out
the potentiality of BIX Media Façade as a particular site of spectacle
within the performative architecture of the Kunsthaus Graz. Inspired by
a novel "The Place of Dead Roads” by William Burroughs, in which the
protagonists understand their reality to be artifice and in
collaboration with Luis Augusto Pecora Marques Pinto, Sao Paulo-based
musician and d.j., this complex project combines literary reference
with a polyphonic musical score and it results in a
beyond-architectural, sophisticated edifice of sound and light, as well
as an image and a text.
The Sky Is Thin As Paper Here…
enters urban space as both an imaginary projection and a real challenge
for perceptive agencies. As Mathias Gmahl, Evans' collaborator
responsible for software and image production, explains, "the software
combines analysis and synthesis and focuses on our ability to perceive
pattern and make connections, to see parts in relation to the whole. It
shows patterns of optic flow, images created using mathematical
expressions of the golden proportion and cellular automata. The program
is similar to an instrument, which is performed live and recorded in
real-time to produce the final animation”.
At the occasion of this project, the DVD The Sky Is Thin As Paper Here…(Kunsthaus
Graz Remix, 2005) has been produced with the software and a soundtrack
as well as with an essay by Martin Prinzhorn and a conversation with
Cerith Wyn Evans by Adam Budak.
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