Tāne's Garden, Le Commun, Geneva, June, 2022
Sound : INFLUUT
Visual : Robert Turner Collective
In this Living Still (see below), Tāne, the god of the forest, observes the sky through the branches and leaves of the canopy, dreaming of a myriad of possible futures. The work is constructed from a single still image and is brought to life by the slow procession through different representations using the same algorithmic abstractions which mingle to illustrate the intertwining of these possible futures.In Le Commun, the installation was in a darkened room designed as a place of meditation and accompanied by a quadraphonic atonal composition using a sample of saxophone sound recordings as a source. These samples were stretched out in sound time and space, giving the impression of a vibratory movement extending to infinity.
Visual : Robert Turner Collective
In this Living Still (see below), Tāne, the god of the forest, observes the sky through the branches and leaves of the canopy, dreaming of a myriad of possible futures. The work is constructed from a single still image and is brought to life by the slow procession through different representations using the same algorithmic abstractions which mingle to illustrate the intertwining of these possible futures.In Le Commun, the installation was in a darkened room designed as a place of meditation and accompanied by a quadraphonic atonal composition using a sample of saxophone sound recordings as a source. These samples were stretched out in sound time and space, giving the impression of a vibratory movement extending to infinity.
Photos: Dorota Grajewska
About Living Stills.
Our natural environment may seem to be static, but this is an artefact. In the real world, we experience constant variation and change. The wind, light and the activity of living organisms and mineral all have an effect. The simple passage of time, the deterioration that it causes and the regeneration that it brings, are enough to give rise to such continuous changes. Our "Living Stills" are digital works which at first appear to be fixed, but which evolve slowly and constantly. On the one hand, the apparent immobility of a scene reflects the unstoppable and incessant flow of time and its regularity: when everything is still, only time moves. On the other hand, the evolution of a scene underscores the irreversibility of time.
Our natural environment may seem to be static, but this is an artefact. In the real world, we experience constant variation and change. The wind, light and the activity of living organisms and mineral all have an effect. The simple passage of time, the deterioration that it causes and the regeneration that it brings, are enough to give rise to such continuous changes. Our "Living Stills" are digital works which at first appear to be fixed, but which evolve slowly and constantly. On the one hand, the apparent immobility of a scene reflects the unstoppable and incessant flow of time and its regularity: when everything is still, only time moves. On the other hand, the evolution of a scene underscores the irreversibility of time.