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** Naming Things
localStyle (Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim)
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13 - 26 . 08 . 2015
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curator: Darko Fritz
16 . 08 . 21 h . artist talk
The collaborative localStyle was founded in Amsterdam in 2000 by Marlena Novak
and Jay Alan Yim. Using high and low tech means, their intermedia practice
includes video, sound installation, interactive installations, live performance
with electronics, and audience participation. Their projects explore how
territories and boundaries—whether physical or intangible—are constructed,
interpreted, and negotiated, via themes as varied as issues of trespass, the
mating behavior of hermaphroditic marine flatworms, the sonification of
electric fish from the Amazon, and experimental Eurasian blackbird grammar.
Their new work, Naming Things, premiering at siva)(zona, takes its inspiration
from a Foucauldian discourse on a passage from Jorge Luis Borges’ text “The
Analytical Language of John Wilkins”. Addressing semantics and general systems
of thought, this audiovisual installation’s sometimes playful appearance aims
to destabilize our misplaced assumption of underlying logic in how we
taxonomize the world around us.
In their artist talk, localStyle will present several works that address
looking towards an/other… Working with an/other creature’s perceptual
system—as in their interactive project scale (with live Ghost Knife fish)—or
engaging an/other point of view (as in their Chicago Cultural Center
installation, Cite Unscene)—localStyle will show and discuss excerpts of these
and other projects as well as the new work on exhibition, Naming Things, which
explores how juxtapositions of ‘an/other’ within a common framework begin to
establish meaning and credibility.
Borges cites “…a certain Chinese dictionary entitled The Celestial Emporium of
Benevolent Knowledge” where “… animals can be divided into (a) those belonging
to the Emperor, (b) those that are embalmed, (c) those that are tame, (d) pigs,
(e) sirens, (f) imaginary animals, (g) wild dogs, (h) those included in this
classification, (i) those that are crazy-acting (j), those that are
uncountable, (k) those painted with the finest brush made of camel hair, (l)
miscellaneous, (m) those which have just broken a vase, and (n) those which,
from a distance, look like flies
This 'dictionary' is referenced in Foucault's 1966 book, The Order of Things,
where Foucault addresses the formation of knowledge within the sciences.
Foucault writes “This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the
laughter that shattered, …all the familiar landmarks of my thought …the thought
that bears the stamp of our age and our geography—breaking up all the ordered
surfaces and all the planes with which we are accustomed to tame the wild
profusion of existing things, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and
threaten with collapse our age-old distinction between the Same and the Other.”
“In the wonderment of this taxonomy, the thing we apprehend in one great leap,
… demonstrated as the exotic charm of another system of thought, is the
limitation of our own, the stark impossibility of thinking that.”
As one of the Borgesian tactics that our project, Naming Things, will emulate,
existing fauna will be combined with imaginary organisms into a fictitious
taxonomy whose credibility will invite speculation and ultimately reflection on
how our systems of knowledge are promulgated and reinforced. Camera tracking
software was used to duplicate video camera movement in a 3d modeling program;
imaginary digital creatures are recombined into the existing video media, which
are comprised of multiple ‘classes’ of animals, or live in their own virtual
environment. Two other categories of footage are deployed: that of living
animals in natural environments, and interaction with animals in the form of
toys or material objects.Audio is developed via voice and field recordings and
composed electronic music. This audio-visual project is a continuation of our
ongoing exploration of perception and behavior: gathering and processing of
information, and the construction, interpretation and
negotiation of thresholds and boundaries via themes as varied as the mating
behavior of hermaphroditic marine flatworms, the song of the European
blackbird, and the sonification of electric fish from the Amazon.
localStyle projects have been presented in festivals, museums, galleries, and
alternative venues in more than three dozen cities worldwide (a.o. Amsterdam,
Amersfoort, Barcelona, Beijing, Belgrade, Berlin, Boston, Brussels, Budapest,
Camden, Chicago, Cologne, Duluth, Eindhoven, Den Haag, Huddersfield, Jerusalem,
Linz, London, Mexico City, New York, the Orkney Islands, Richmond, Santa
Barbara, Santa Fe, São Paolo, Sarasota, Shanghai, Sittard, Sydney, Szczecin,
Tel Aviv, Torino, Toronto, Valencia, and Warsaw). Festival presentations have
included the National Art Museum of China’s (NAMOC) TransLife Triennial, STRP
Festival, Visioni dal Futuro, Taipei Digital Art Festival.
Marlena Novak is a member of the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, in the Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation. Prior to
that, she served as Associate Director of Northwestern’s Animate Arts Program,
and has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois Chicago and
visiting professor at the University of New Mexico. She has received grants
from the Arts Council of Great Britain, Illinois Arts Council, Center for
Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, and the City of Chicago’s Department of
Cultural Affairs and Special Events. Her work is included in public (a.o. the
Corcoran in Washington, DC and the Mondriaanhuis in Amersfoort, NL) and private
collections in Europe and the USA, and has been presented in solo and group
exhibitions in more than three dozen cities worldwide.
Jay Alan Yim studied computer music at Stanford and MIT and music composition
at the University of California Santa Barbara, the Royal College of Music, and
Harvard. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council (three times),
Tanglewood, Aspen, and many other awards. His music has been featured at
international contemporary music festivals and has been performed by artists
such as the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco
Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Nederlands
Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Los Angeles
Philharmonic New Music Group, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble SurPlus, Arditti,
JACK, and Spektral Quartets, Nieuw Ensemble, ICE, dal niente, Gareth Davis, and
Frances-Marie Uitti.
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