“The Play and Playing- Light and Shadow”

Zakahamida presents 2 installations from the exhibition “C.CUT-UP! Post-digital resonances”

Cut-up is a technique of cutting words to reorganize them and play on the meaning. The “post-digital” dimension is here linked to the concept of using digital objects, disconnected from the Internet, responding only to external analog variations, including the presence of the public.

The first installation: “Cut-up & Control” plays a poem by William Burroughs, using the cut-up technique. The movement of the audience in the light is captured by a smartphone camera which distorts the intelligibility of the poem in real time. The audience must remain almost still for the poem to slowly become more intelligible again. This installation places the listener in a resonant organic relationship with sound and meaning. The version presented here broadcasts a Taiwanese version with the voice of Hong-Wen LIN

The second installation: “Suspendule#2” is a pendulum which oscillates and tries to come to life through a hybrid breathing between man and machine. Variations in its trajectories can give way to silence. Like a punctuation mark in our modern world, this pendulum embodies a resonating space-time, of which its own frequency is accessible to us, as long as we take the time to observe it, to listen to it. The tempo remains regular and the amplitudes are reduced to the point of immobility. A cycle lasts about 30 to 45 minutes. We put it back in motion with a delicate gesture, in the hope of bringing it back to life, a new beginning …

The plant sculpture is by Jun T. LAI Grenn Splendid

Photo credits: Iris Liao

“C.CUT-UP ! Post-digital resonances”

of Zakahamida

the creation of this exhibition stems from the meeting between Cépanou and Lisilog around the devices of the artist Zakahamida. By inviting Zakahamida, the Cépanou association is inaugurating its exhibition space, la Grange à Pierre, in the heart of the Burgundy countryside. Located in Saint Pierre le Vieux in a rural town of Saône et Loire, this space is an invitation to discover contemporary creation. In search of an echo between artistic interventions, inhabitants and the landscape, Cépanou offers moments of interaction, exchange and sharing to build and develop new artistic forms, together, far from the attraction of cities. . For this first residency, Cépanou joined forces with Lisilog, an association which is dedicated to technological innovation in the service of artistic devices and their transmission. “C. Cut-up! “Is a concentrate of technologies acquired by the LiSiLoG team that Zakahamida uses to question, through sound and visual installations, our relationship to the world today.

World premiere 2021:  at “la Grange à Pierre” – St Pierre le vieux – France

Smartphone, 2 amplified speakers.

This device broadcasts “Cut-ups” by the poet William S. Burroughs, and invites the spectator to participate through his stillness in an active listening. Little by little and more and more intelligibly, the diffusion of the poem is revealed. From this apparent stability, the audience’s micro-movements, captured by the smartphone camera, distort the sound until it completely disappears and gives way to an abstract, wordless universe, musically inscribed in a composed process. In the end, the issue is not the problem of fragmentation but that of rearranging, taking the time and appealing more to Hi than to Ai.

photo credits: Zakahamida (“Cut-up & Control”: above at Galerie Solyanka – Moscow / below at La Grange à Pierre – St Pierre Le Vieux)

World premiere 2021:  at “la Grange à Pierre” – St Pierre le vieux – France

Sphère ( ø 200mm) lestée et suspension biaxiale via roulements imprimées en ABS, cable de suspension alimenté, capteur de mouvement intégré, diffusion stéréo.

Suspendule#1 : was specially designed for an exhibition near the “Disfluxion” installation. The movement of the pendulum is voluntarily left free, without permanent maintenance, until its natural damping. The sound generated by the pendulum is a hybrid respiration between man and machine. It is revealed according to the proximity of the public to the installation “Disfluxion”, in connection with the disappearance of the moving characters from the video.

Suspendule#2 : is the independent version. An iOS application is used to process the movements of the pendulum and translate them into sound. This pendulum oscillates and tries to come to life through a hybrid breathing between man and machine. Variations in its trajectories can give way to silence. Like a punctuation in our modern world, this pendulum embodies a resonating space-time, whose own frequency is accessible to us, as long as we take the time to observe it, to listen to it. The tempo remains regular and the amplitudes are reduced to the point of immobility. A cycle lasts about 30 to 45 minutes. We put it back in motion with a delicate gesture, in the hope of bringing it back to life, a new beginning …

Photo credits: Ground Solyanka Galerie & Zakahamida (Suspendule#1: above at Galerie Solyanka – Moscow / below at the Grange à Pierre – St Peter the Elder)

World premiere 2021:  at “la Grange à Pierre” – St Pierre le vieux – France

Installation interactive d’une vidéo de 60 minutes, plan fixe, diffusion stéréo, traitée en temps réel, en fonction de la proximité du public.

Vision romantique du détachement entre l’homme et le monde qui l’a créé. Ce dispositif consiste à créer une distance paradoxale entre le public et sa perception du flux. Apparaissent à l’écran, ceux qui prennent le temps d’une pause et révèlent leurs présence à l’image; dichotomie d’une réalité qui nous échappe. Questionne- ment du paradoxe des liens entre les Hommes en ce début de 21e siècle. Le flux permanent de nos connections virtuelles avec le monde crée une fracture entre les Hommes et le monde, pharmakon d’une société hyper-connectée.

Crédits photos : Ground Solyanka Galerie – Moscou

World premiere 2021:  at “la Grange à Pierre” – St Pierre le vieux – France

Video-panoptic of 9 Smartphones under frames.

Smartphones broadcast videos in still shots, without sound. Image processing uses the same process as the “Disfluxion” installation: only what is immobile appears, this process is called “presence”. The audience finds themselves in front of this video panopticon as an observer of the mutation of the environment of each cell, organized by the activity of ants.

Photo credits: Ground Solyanka Galerie – Moscow

Resonant interactive installations

They question our relationship to the world, question our ability to take the time to establish resonant relationships with the world around us. These installations deliberately use the “Smartphone”, a symbol and paradoxical object of the progress of a modern, hyper-connected society at the start of the 21st century. Via the installation “SMARTLAND – Divertimento“, Christophe Lebreton introduced in 2014 this concept which he called “Post Digital Garden”. Place a “high-tech” object: the Smartphone, in a space without an Internet connection, which can only interact with the surrounding analog world via its integrated microphone and loudspeaker, much like any individual, “off-line”.

Christophe Lebreton, alias Zakahamida