Working Backwards: July to May

Two days before leaving Taiwan, the show of the that I and my workshop participants at Taipei National University of the Arts' Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts "Collaboration: Anticipating the Art of the Future" opened.

I brougth this piece entitled Mechanical Universe: Nocturne from Boston to finish while a resident at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts. I took the idea of a nocturne and used a limited palette of silvers and grey to suggest Whistler's famous twilight images and his equal interest in the abstract qualities of limited tones.These formal effects have been channeled via Mondrian to create an abstracted choreography between the paintings, in order to echo the eerie sense of longing in the sounds contributed by the Belgian sound artist Yannick Franck.

The museum made a nice blog of the workshop at http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3521028847868531777&postID=5396888155115639043