Presentation 16/4

"Prey for us"
Sharon Kopriva

"Around Sound" sound exhibition (:

I have never visited any sound exhibition before. This is such a new thing for me.

When I first got to know that we were going to visit a sound exhibition, I thought there would be some many music instrument and maybe live band performing there.

However, it was totally out of my expectation that there was neither music instrument nor live band.

The exhibition held in Kwun Tong Pier, it is really awesome. It is so special to do art performance there, maybe it is because that the Kwun Tong Ferry Pier is an art itself, that it is quite big yet empty and old. I have no idea how to describe this place, it is really special. It feels like that you are far away from a busy cosmopolitan, when you see the sunlight came in and when you hear the sound of the waves. 

Kwun Tong Ferry Pier

sunlight (((:

toliet

sink without water tap ...=..=

i don't know why i super love this destroyed fan

Let me out ! Let me out !!!!!

When we first enter the Pier, we saw an artist - Matt Cook, who squatted down by some special devices. He connected them with battery and made different sounds.

Matt 

everyone was taking photos of him 

After watching Matt’s performance, we went to the upper floor of the pier. We saw some glass bottles were placed on the floor which formed a straight line. However, we have no idea why they were put there. 

going upstairs

 

bottlessss

Then, Akio Suzuki and Hiromi Miyakita started their performance. Their performance included  2 parts. In the 1^st part, while Mr Akio was nailing the nails on the wood, Hiromi Miyakita danced according to the sounds that Mr Akio produced. Their cooperation was really great. 

Akio Suzuki

Akio Suzuki was nailing the nails

Hiromi Miyakita was dancing

In the 2^nd part, Hiromi Miyakita danced with the bottles that we saw when we went to the upper floor. At that moment, I finally realized that all the bottles were filled with water. Hiromi Miyakita kept spinning and poured the water out of the bottles. Also, she was holding an bottle and ran around. At the same time Mr Akio used the glass bottles to make different sounds.

spinning

running

Although, I don’t really get the story behind these performances, I pretty enjoy them. I think they are creative and quite special. These performances remind me that sound and music are always around us, even some normal material, such as bottles and nails can produce amazing sounds.  

P.S. Me and +Nikita Wai Ling Leung  climbed up to the secret rooftop of the pier. 
Hope that we won't be prosecuted for trespassing ... hahahaha anyway, we had so much fun.

exit to the secret rooftop,,, enter here

"I am on the top of the world"

yeahhhhh !!

super nice view

hi !

 

Song Dong's 36 Calendars

Song Dong said

“ The Mayans have their own calendar… everybody can have their own calendar, their own way to experience time.”

Song Dong used the hanging calendar as the background and drew on it to record his memories for 36 years. His calendar started from 1987. 

He also said

“I live in art and art lives in me.”

Indeed, everyday we are living in art and everything can be art.

Song Dong turned his memory into art , he turned a normal hanging calendar into art.

I like the style of this art work, that sketching is the most causal form of art that we may be in touch with such form of art everyday. Eg. when we get bored during the lesson, we will do sketching on our notebook. Using such form to create a art which is highly related to daily life is the most appropriate form.

It is really a personal art piece. It is Song Dong’s autobiography or diary that it is only about Song Dong’s personal memories of the past 36 years. However, Song Dong’s personal view of the past 36 years, somehow can represent the view or memory of the general public, because some of them are collective memory， such as, the death of Steve Job, the death of Michael Jackson, 911, facebook and Tiananmen Square protests etc. 

the death of Michael Jackson

911

 

facebook

Also, as Song Dong is a Beijing-based artist, quite a lot of content of his calendars are about things or history of China, such as Tiananmen Square protests.

The part that invite audience to colouring amending and rewriting Song Dong’s calendar is the part that impressed me the most. Because, everyone has his/her own memory and interpretation of the past/ history, so it is really interesting how they add their memory beyond Song Dong’s. I think interaction is one of the most important elements of contemporary art and I like the idea of how Song Dong interact with the audience. 

NEW Mr Bean ((((:

tear off

i m wondering what does this day mean to that audience, what makes he/she cut this day off.

tear off 

beautiful butterfly

kiss kiss kiss

dog bite

"i hope everyone can have more free space to interact"

All black