BasementArtProject.com

	A half hour radio show will be presented as an art project combining a sequence of different artists' works, including video works, story telling, pop music and sonic art. It will be an opportunity for artists and musicians to explore this new dimension through their work. A piece of video work might be shown but the sound ommited opening up the visual element by expanding on the audiences pictorial imagination. The project investigates the territory occupied by sound and vision by putting the emphasis on sound work because often the aural element is in the subordinate position in the mainstream media. The project also examines what the soundtrack can show independently and its accessibility through sound and music. The sound work of Wang's videos were designed accordingly to the moving image. However, in the project, the pictorial element is taken in the same way as the subject matter has been designated empty and not in use. The soundtrack connects the audience to the film's subtext, the audience entry a zone where they choose to access. It might also be the way that the soundtrack is designed which makes the audience recognise it unconsciously. For example, Tarantino's cult movie: Pulp Fiction has become a contemporary epic and anyone would recognise the music without even seeing the movie (or a fast forward one-minute version by S. Macrae). Ionas Brothers' pop band: the Callas (with the superman outfit) has made them famous. Their work is deriving from many aspects of the Greek reality, combining experiences from the Greek traditional fairs and the punk-glam-pop-garage-mod-D.I.Y groove of the 70's. Radio is domestic, it's one of the furniture at home. It talks, sings and plays music. 'Playing with words' questions whether language only represents thought or whether there is much going on behind the autonomous play of signs. Lupini's playful culturally coded Brazilian 'Bossa Nova' whilst exploring it's pretended universal language powerfully penetrates us, whereas Gasson's internal voice somehow is representing someone's private thoughts in the public realm. Vaughan will read his village legend of Danish raiders that invade an old Anglo-Saxon town in the modern day. Not much of the story telling, Sibum is singing loud of his own political philosophy in his observations towards the world.
	Aris & Lakis Ionas, Clare Gasson, Mauricio Lupini, Woter Sibum
	Yu-Chen Wang, Simon Coleman, Nicholas Vaughan, Sheena Macrae





Sound Invades vision

11 March @ iCulture, Imperial College Radio 1134am www.icradio.com hosted by Helen Arney guest : Yu-Chen Wang

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