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Absence that fades after a while

Lih, Youngjae LU (2019)
Abstract
Youngjae Lih’s emotional and perception-altering installation Multiplicity to Singularity, then Singularity to Multiplicity explores history as natural duration measured by light frequency, with sound, abstraction and instruments meant to represent nature’s rhythms. It stems from the way in which two industrial producers of color filters, Lee and Rosco, have coded the visible world in shades of light and colour, all meant to “perfect” the perception and representation of all our surrounding worlds, from the natural to the architectural. As the artist writes, “the installation explores the relationship between sound and space by staging the labeling system for optical filters together with its corresponding sounds generated by the fugue... (More)
Youngjae Lih’s emotional and perception-altering installation Multiplicity to Singularity, then Singularity to Multiplicity explores history as natural duration measured by light frequency, with sound, abstraction and instruments meant to represent nature’s rhythms. It stems from the way in which two industrial producers of color filters, Lee and Rosco, have coded the visible world in shades of light and colour, all meant to “perfect” the perception and representation of all our surrounding worlds, from the natural to the architectural. As the artist writes, “the installation explores the relationship between sound and space by staging the labeling system for optical filters together with its corresponding sounds generated by the fugue technique.” In music, the fugue is a procedure of imitation. Dissociative fugue is a form of temporary amnesia, where personality and memory are lost for a few months, and sometimes replaced by a newly created identity. Lih crafts a third way, of personal abstraction and technological representation of nature, one which is minutely coded and scripted, yet allowing of loss, randomness and accident. (Less)
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  author       = {{Lih, Youngjae}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{09}},
  publisher    = {{Skånes Konstförening, Malmö}},
  title        = {{Absence that fades after a while}},
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