Playback © photo Jacqueline Trichard / Centre Pompidou-Metz |
Created in 1989 for the touring exhibition Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties, the installation Playback based on the 1988 performance Pleasure Life features 36 wireframe stands for revolving acrylic discs with model rockets hovering like record needles. This remade 16-stand soundscape installation plays a mix of audio tracks from the LP record era — music from the early '80s by Dumb Type's Toru Yamanaka and Teiji Furuhashi, odd vocal variations on English language lessons, greetings in 55 languages from the data disc launched into space on the 1977 NASA probe Voyager — as well as new field recordings.
Exhibitions:
2018 — ACTIONS+REFLEXIONS, solo exhibition, Centre Pompidou-Metz (FR)
2019-2020 — ACTIONS+REFLECTIONS, solo exhibition, MOT - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (JP)
2022 — Dumb Type solo exhibition, Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE) |
