Our top picks at Media/Art Kitchen
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Our top picks at Media/Art Kitchen
The Media/Art Kitchen – Reality Distortion Field exhibition is a collection of installation works that features artists from Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam presented together to question the nature of media and art today. The exhibition organised by Japan Foundation evolves in its presentation as it goes from country to country, with no two being exactly the same.
It is currently being exhibited at Black Box, Map KL at Publika in Kuala Lumpur and will be running until 20th October 2013.
Here are our top picks of works you shouldn’t miss:
Sieve of Stars by Yagi Lyota (Japan)
Sieve of Stars is an interactive piece that requires viewers to hold up a screen towards three projectors that are projecting images of stars at different focal lengths. As you walk closer or further from the projectors lined up, you bump into the images coming into or going out of focus – like sifting through the air for stars.
Moist Sense by Lifepatch (Indonesia)
This installation replicates the modern day irrigation system adopted by urban folk who farm in densely populated towns. The plants’ moisture needs are detected with electronics that control the water being distributed to all the plants that have been placed along the entire wall, demonstrating how space can be utilised and how we’ve managed to automate and regulate nature.
Beberscope by Fairuz Sulaiman (Malaysia)
This installation invites audiences to participate in a kind of physical Instagram. You are given a disk to draw a succession of images around it to be projected by the hand built praxinoscope. The disk is then added to a crude catalogue of profiles of previous participants whose disks you can play if you’d like.
The Tenth Sentiment by Kuwakubo Ryota (Japan)
Kuwakubo Ryota’s The Tenth Sentiment is by far our favourite piece at Media/Art Kitchen. Taking up a small room for itself, the installation just looks like a regular old train set with a mess of household items spread around it. But when the train starts to go around the track, the tiny light attached to it casts shadows of the household items on the wall, creating a beautiful moving image of a cityscape as though you’re looking out the window of a train in Japan.
This video shows off The Tenth Sentiment as it was previously displayed at the Studio of Maison des arts de Créteil in France:
Media/Art Kitchen is also made up of workshops and talks in addition to the exhibition. So if you’re an artist yourself, head on over to the official website of the event or Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur to find out how you can participate. You can stay updated at the official Facebook page.
Media/Art Kitchen – Reality Distortion Field will be making its stop in Manila next, and Bangkok right after that. For the full schedule of its tour, have a look here.