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MEATING GHOST / 2014

MEATING GHOST

Art installation that tricks the Sense

5 April 2014


Atelier Hotel Pro Forma presents: Meating Ghost
Art installation by artist-in-residence Ayaka Okutsu

Imagine being a frog, would you see the world upside down? What does sense of hearing and seeing do to our perception? Have you ever been touched by a robot?

In Meating Ghost Japanese visual artist Ayaka Okutsu investigates the manipulation of different senses as a way of making the audience aware of their perception. Meating Ghost is the title work of Okutsu’s newly developed installation concept for Atelier Hotel Pro Forma’s 400sqm. white space. The work is a video installation with binaurally recorded sound, which gives a 360degree perception through hearing. It creates an uncanny sense of dimension and physicality, offering artificial impairment in hearing and seeing. Her goal is to reach out to the higher sense that exceeds the limit of everyday life but suggests the possibility of human being.

Audience can also engage themselves in an experimental food workshop and a number of experiments that stimulates their sense of hearing and seeing. All the research materials of the project will be presented, which include the highlight work of Blind Robot by Louis-Philippe Demers. The robot delicately explores the body, mostly the face, of the visitor in a manner that recalls what the blind humans are doing to recognize a person or an object. Blind Robot was a part of the cyberart festival Ars Electronica in 2013.

Meating Ghost is realised in collaboration with sound artist Stina Hasse, Robot Culture and Aesthetics (ROCA, University of Copenhagen), Center For Healthy Aging (CEHA, University of Copenhagen), and Medical Museion (Copenhagen).

Also go to Science in the Arts, a seminar organized by Hotel Pro Forma at Medical Museion, where Ayaka Okutsu will present her work. 09 April 2014, from 13.00 – 14.00, Medical Museion, Bredgade 62, 1260 Copenhagen K

Credits
PARTICIPANTS

Meating Ghost
Concept: Ayaka Okutsu
Video design: Ayaka Okutsu
Sound recording and editing: Ayaka Okutsu, Stina Hasse
Project assistants: Frigge Himmmelstrup, Rasmus Strange Thue Tobiassen, Annika Tritshcler, Aleksandra Rakic
Singers: Jakob Nielsen, Benjamin Nielsen,
Project manager: Martin Rørtoft
Production: Atelier Hotel Pro Forma

Blind Robot
Concept: Louis-Philippe Demers
Visit and installation arranged by Ståle Stenslie & Elizabeth Ann Jochum (University of Aalborg)

Ayaka Okutsu is a Japanese visual- and performance artist living in Berlin. She holds an MA from Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, in 2010 as a master student of visual artist Mark Leckey. With more than 40 solo- and group exhibitions in Europe, Africa and Japan Ayaka has earned a reputation as an experimental visual artist, who breaks new grounds in the meeting the audience. Her works are often cross-media installations focusing on audience situations, perception and spatial investigations incorporating different media and technologies. She si artist-in-residence from January – April 2014

Louis-Philippe Demers is an associate professor in the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He makes large-scale installations and performances. His main areas of work are entertainment robotics and interaction design. Over the past two decades, he participated in more than one hundred artistic and stage productions and has built more than 300 machines.

Atelier Hotel Pro Forma is an international art lab for young, recognized and international artists to develop and show works created across art forms such as the visual arts, video, sound, architecture, light, text and performing arts.The Atelier is a platform and physical space for new and upcoming artists and students who creates exhibitions, installations and performances and concepts for future projects.

When and where
WHEN
5 April 2014 at 17:30 – 21:00

WHERE
Hotel Pro Forma, Strandlodsvej 6B, DK-2300 Copenhagen S

FREE ADMISSION

Danish
MEATING GHOST
Kunstinstallation, der snyder sanserne

Atelier Hotel Pro Forma præsenterer: Meating Ghost
Kunstinstallation af artist-in-residence Ayaka Okutsu

Forestil dig, at du var en frø, ville du så se verdenen på hovedet? Hvad gør høre-og synssansen ved vores opfattelse af verden? Er du nogensinde blevet rørt af en robot?

I Meating Ghost undersøger den japanske billedkunstner Ayaka Okutsu manipulationen af forskellige sanser, som en måde at gøre publikum bevidste om deres egen opfattelse. Meating Ghost er titlen på Okutsu’s nyudviklede installationskoncept til Atelier Hotel Pro Formas 400 kvm. store udstillingsrum. Værket er en videoinstallation med binauralt optaget lyd, hvilket giver en 360-graders rumopfattelse gennem hørelse. Det skaber en uvirkelig fornemmelse af dimension og kropslighed gennem en kunstig forringelse af høre- og synssansen. Hendes mål er, at publikum opnår en ny og højere sansning, der overskriver hverdagens begrænsninger men antyder muligheden for en ny menneskelig væren.

Publikum kan deltage i en eksperimenterende mad-workshop og i en række af eksperimenter, der stimulerer deres høre –og synssans. Alt researchmateriale bag projektet vil blive præsenteret i installationen, hvilket inkluderer højdepunktet Blind Robot af Louis-Philippe Demers. Robotten udforsker forsigtigt kroppen, men mest ansigtet på beskueren, på en måde der minder om, hvad blinde mennesker gør for at genkende et menneske eller objekt. Blind Robot blev udstillet på cyber-kunstfestivalen Ars Electronica i 2013.

Meating Ghost er lavet i samarbejde med lydkunstner Stina Hasse, Robot Culture and Aesthetics (ROCA, Københavns Universitet), Center for Sund Aldring (CESA, Københavns Universitet) og Medicinsk Museion (København).

HVORNÅR
Fredag den 5. april 2014 kl. 17.30-21.00

HVOR
Hotel Pro Forma, Strandlodsvej 6B, DK-2300 København S

FREE ADMISSION

Danish Arts Foundation
 
Hotel Pro Forma Tomsgårdsvej 19 2400 København NV Denmark Tel. + 45 51 27 87 47 mail@hotelproforma.dk

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