Sitting as an audience in the 3D in Ink. I was shocked at how particles of the liquid drops gather and disperse into flashing vapor until it gathers back to form the calligraphy characters standing in solid shape. Gather, disperse and formulate different routes of writing and shapes.
The writer says that like the two hangers of coats left in his studio, “Kurokawa organizes his work according to two conceptual hangers: his most widely synaesthesia and the deconstruction of nature”. Different from how writers mix different senses as an expression, I’m really intrigued about how Kurokawa “sync” the visuals and audio together to create a satisfaction of matching and perfection of synchronization and yet going beyond patterns and comfort of being organized. In his “Octfall”, I feel fulfilled seeing when with a base drum beat and a glitch the visual switches from one screen to another, zooming in its size. There’s a sense of “oh wow” feeling running through my body as I see how the visual change and the audio change synchronize in a way that we don’t initially recognize.
Kurokawa’s notion on “Deconstruction of nature” is like a disorientational feeling generated through the visual’s change and the defamiliarization of naturalistic objects, or concepts we touch in our everyday life. He leaves time of suspension, repetition and sudden shifts of the pace; it’s like the objects and the elements depicted in his pieces go through a transformation as the audio triggers the changes. I don’t really know how he builds up these changes, but just watching it, not even in real life, gives me an awing feeling. It feels like he’s tearing nature apart by distorting it a little, as he proceeds with a little twist one by one, it explodes into a different word.
The precision involved in using tech to create art is so high. Having different software systems for trial, carrying cables through water vessels, I’m just envisioning the hardship of the installation with such a sophisticated art piece. It must be such a cool yet stressful job to handle these installations.