MEMORA8ILIA
a filing cahinet for 8sided.blog
❝ Discarded materials are important to me because of environmental issues and also as a reflection of my current life. My choice of materials and interpretation are influenced by the differences that I experience between life in America and in Japan, where I grew up. I often use repetition and aim to create energy and chaos, within quiet stillness. ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/10/19/discarded-materials-are-important-to-me-because/
❝ By having a major figure from Chinese mythology appear on European shores, Huang Yong Ping examines, the notions of identity and cultural hybridity, as is often the case in his work. The environmental question is also very present in his art where he regularly exposes the paradox of the man sawing the branch he is sitting on, torn between creative abilities and destructive impulses. This is one of the many possible interpretations of this work: placed on the beach, the skeleton appears with the tide and, little by little, will be home to marine fauna and flora. ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/17/by-having-a-major-figure-from-chinese-mythology/
❝ The first version of Orient-Occident is music for the film realised by Enrico Fulchignoni, commissioned by the Unesco and performed in Cannes on May 1960. The film was about an exhibit in 1958-59 organised by Vadim Eliséeff, curator of the Parisian museum ‘Musée Cernuschi’, which showed sculptures and other objects from Asia, Europe and Egypt and highlighted the relationships between East (Orient) and West (Occident). ❞ *
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❝ Orient-Occident (1960) is very different from the other electroacoustic pieces of Xenakis (and even from his whole music) … on the level of sound objects’ montage, Orient-Occident doesn’t follow the schaefferian project, which is characterized by the attempt to replace the note by the sound object in the hope of remaining into the traditional definition of music … ❞ *
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❝ Xenakis, who “found God” at 13 but was a staunch atheist later on, once said that art could “lead to realms that religion still occupies for some people.” ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/17/the-first-version-of-orient-occident-is-music/