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“Opera of Kard 2 (market)”

Opera of Kard 2 (Market), 2021

12-channel video installation, Dimension variable,
at “Project: The Folly” group exhibition, curated by CHUANG Wei-Tzu,
Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Art Space V, Taipei, Taiwan.


   
"Opera of Kard 2" is a continuation of "Opera of Kard 1," incorporating a bamboo structure to support LED screens and speakers. The bamboo framework resembles the structures found in local markets, enhancing the viewer's experience. This sound installation was exhibited during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing the market sounds within the piece to evoke memories of human interaction from before the pandemic.

    Interested in the notion of sound as a vibration and the world as a network of complex vibrations, Arnont Nongyao creates experimental sound performances and installations. Opera of Kard (Market) is an immersive multi-screen installation. Each of the 12 channels plays back the sounds and scenery from a kard, or local market in northern Thailand. These weekly markets are gathering places where people from different ethnic backgrounds congregate, communicate and trade. From people chattering to birds singing and the wind blowing, each kard is, for the artist, also a musical score. Rearranged into a single composition, the sounds now come together as a socio-cultural operatic performance of the kard.

text by Vipash Purichanont.

Artist participated : Arnont NONGYAO, WU Tsan-Cheng, LING Tien, CHIU Chen-Hung, TSONG Pu, CHEN Shiau-Peng, CHEN Wan-Jen, LIAO Chien-Chung, HSIAO Yu-Chih, TAI Han-Hong.

Photo by C-Lab team

info :
https://clab.org.tw/en/events/thefolly/

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