Gabey Tjon a Tham (nl) - Illuminating and Installing the Third Culture

Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana - November 29, 2012

In this talk, Gabey Tjon A Tham explains how her work developed from explorations of two dimensional surfaces to site […]

In this talk, Gabey Tjon A Tham explains how her work developed from explorations of two dimensional surfaces to site specific installations and sound, leading to her recent sound and light pieces, among which is also the work she showed at the Sonica festival exhibition – Repetition at my distance )))))). She speaks about this work, which is also her graduation work, as the most recent phase of her explorations of sound, light, movement and site specificity. She places it in the context of Kabakov’s notion of the total installation, from the elements of which she builds a genealogy of her own installation works.
This talk was recorded at the ArtistTalk – Third Culture symposium at Sonica Festival in November 2012. In the symposium, we questioned the notion of a Third Culture based on what it claimed to be a gradual but accelerating fusion of the “two cultures” of the humanities and science.
More info and symposium program: sonica.si/2012/11/16/symposium/

Tags:
• experimental
• Gabey Tjon a Tham
• installation
• kinetic
• light
• repetition at my distance
• Sonica 2012
• sound art
• visual art