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site specific video projection +powder screen + ambisonic sound
Metamorphosis is a site specific video installation with ambisonic sound. Along with Kang's life-long interest in "aliens" who do not have a communication method that would work in the boundary of normative normality, her video often shows a body transmitting images or sounds without human vocal organs. In Metamorphosis, the body in the video, which is incorporeal, gives an illusion of materialistic three dimensional existence on top of a powder screen made of salt on the floor. The body transforms into sound spinning around in the space, which physically embraces the audience. The flat image imitating the real world becomes sound which seems illusory but actually has more physical presence that touches the audience.
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Installation scene

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H264 compression, 23Mb, 360X240, 4min 48sec
Mpeg 4 compression, 88Mb, 360X240, 4min 48sec
* Metamorphosis is a site specific video installation with ambisonic sound.
This video documentation is muted as the sound movement in space
cannot be relaized in this format.
I hope you have a chance to fully experience it in the future. Thanks. |
Concept |
How does a body without “normal” language communicate with others? How does the audience share an immersive experience and mingle with the artwork? How are the transformative states of perception embodied in an intermedia approach?
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Participants Experience |
Participants enter a dark room with a bright spot at the center. They gather around the brightness and find a figure there. The figure transforms into an entangled body that spins and turns into a sound moving around the participants. Participants share an immersive experience, a ritualistic entanglement of their own.
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Installation Schema and Technology |
Metamorphosis is composed of video projection on a powder screen on the floor and spiral sound movement in a dark room. The video is shot from a bird’s-eye angle, which gives an illusion of a space below the floor. The top down projection angle enhances it. The powder screen made of salt and sugar also adds three-dimensional depth to the video illusion. The sculpted piles of the powder tangle with the participant’s perception between the real and the virtual. With ambisonic sound set up using SuperCollider and 12 loud speakers, the composed sound spins around on the surface of a sound sphere creating a spatial soundscape.
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| Metamorphisis was invited to Asiagraph exhibition in Shanghai, China in 2008 summer. |
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