Special Friday 15th July – 7pm – ‘Two masks instead of one II’ – Yan Gi Cheng & Trami Nguyen – The (love) Song Book“ for voice solo – Izumi Ose & Tetsuya Hori. more info : https://www.facebook.com/events/1082921418467575/ + https://www.facebook.com/events/527715914093410/
‘Two masks instead of one II ‘ is a performance and installation art work in collaboration with Yan Gi Cheng andTrami Nguyen. It is a new contemplation on the notion of a collective narcissism fervent in contemporarysociety. The subjectivity of oneself has become a multiplicity of perceptions, with the internet and socialmedia as a platform for formulating alter egos and distorted impressions of our identities. This work stagesan event as a subtraction and formalisation to certain given rules of the modern gaze. The installationbecomes an arena for disrupting all classical forms of narrative. And the distorted objectification issimultaneously enveloped and separate from the real, therefore the silence of a new order of things comesinto being. An immersive sound installation is reverberated from under the black boxes and the objects leftare traces of performative actions which took place. A pair of cylindrical mirrors each reflecting eachreflecting their true faces. Referencing the art from the European Medieval period, the anamorphic imagewas used to reveal hidden cryptic messages. The mask has significant meaning in African culture, forexample in the Goli dance animals of the wilderness, represented by masks, enter the world of humankindin pairs. This dance is an expression of Baule’s world view, which is rooted in dualism: it demonstrates theopposition as well as the union of the genders, of the human world and the wilderness
The (love) Song Book“ for voice solois consists of 7 love-songs. All of songs are with poem from several poets. It will be performed by Izumi Ose and is composed by Tetsuya Hori. Izumi Ose – Voice Performer:She participated in the CD of Tetsuya Hori called „Dried Fish Is Just Good As Bait(AR041)“ as a Vocalist, which released in 2011. The CD was named the best album of 2011 by the music critics “Foxy Digitalis”.Tetsuya Hori – ComposerHe is a composer and has written music for instruments, vocals, electronic and objects. Tetsuya Hori has been the recipient of special mention from International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition 2011, the Best Album of 2011 by foxy digitalis, and special prize from the Showa University of Music. His music been performed in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Mannheim, Brandenburg, Leipzig, Halle (Germany), Basel (Switzerland), Warsaw, Pozan, Krakow, Torun, Nowy Targ (Poland), Bucharest, Timisoara (Rumania), Tilburg (Netherlands), Seattle (USA), Tokyo, Yokohama, Sapporo (Japan) so far.more info: www.tetsuyahori.de
