OUROBOROS (2011)
WORLD PREMIERE @ KOFFLER CENTRE OF THE ARTS
SPIN OFF: CONTEMPORARY ART CIRCLING THE MANDALA
Aya Ben Ron (Israel), Mircea Cantor (France / Romania), Vandana Jain (USA), Gary James Joynes/Clinker (Canada), Melissa Shiff (Canada), Jennifer Zackin (USA)
September 22 to December 4, 2011
Koffler Gallery Off-Site at 80 Spadina Ave, Suite 501 | FREE
Curator: Evelyn Tauben
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, September 22, 7 – 9 PM
EXHIBITION HOURS: Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 6 PM
A centuries-old motif in Buddhist and Hindu religious practices, mandalas are representations of the cosmos, which help direct focus in meditation. Many contemporary artists have been entranced by the formal simplicity of the mandala (meaning circle in Sanskrit) paired with its function and elaborate symbolism. Spin Off brings together work by a group of international artists, elucidating the challenge and potential for accessing spirituality in a modern world. This multimedia exhibition presents art that melds mysticism and popular culture, offering alternative portals to escape the world of the everyday while simultaneously drawing upon its sights and sounds.
OUROBOROS 2011
Ouroboros is a single channel HD video sculpture within a vocal soundscape composed and sung by Joynes, presented with a grid of 9 photographs from the frequency painting series. This work explores sacred sounds and forms through a multisensory installation evoking a space for thoughtful reflection, a pause in hectic lives to consider the cyclical nature of existence.
OUROBOROS by Gary James Joynes is supported by the Edmonton Arts Council and the City of Edmonton
FREQUENCY PAINTING:12 TONES
FREQUENCY PAINTING: 12 TONES combines iconic Cymatic sound wave sculpture (documented/exhibited as photography) and interactive (generative) sound composition into an immersive environment exploring the relationship between sound waves and their visual counterpart. The exhibition offers a portal to escape the world of the everyday.
Tonal energy, featured in cultures the world over, has been used to promote meditation and enlightenment. Similarly, mandalas and non-object based imagery have represented the unknowable, the infinite. Global cultural memory contains similar pure forms to the images in the Frequency Painting series. Are these inventions of human creativity or the physical manifestation of sound in our worlds? Perhaps these SONIC forms have an innate and synaesthetic connection to the visual content of our disparate cultures. 12 TONES links these pure aesthetic truths explored over hundreds of millennia.
Each image in 12 TONES is the visible form of the sound that created it, sculpted by shaping high volume sound waves through a custom designed wave driver plate machine and then photographed. The sound component compliments the photography through the use of hand-made sonar sensors triggering and modulating a speaker system emitting the very sine wave which generated the image. Each image is accompanied by one of these custom sound generators that modulates the volume both randomly and interactively based on viewer movement within the exhibition space. The interactivity is subtle yet is what holds the exhibition together as the 12-channel audio moiré of binaural beats and phase shifts morphs with every change in volume, a perpetually evolving composition played by the installation (random sonar pulses) in concert with it's viewers.
No two participants ever have the same sonic experience.
FREQUENCY
PAINTING NEWS...
The FREQUENCY PAINTING SERIES is being represented by dc3 Art Projects
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HERE to view the Prints
VAGUE
TERRAIN interview with Gary James Joynes on the creation
of the FREQUENCY PAINTING IMAGES and the 12 TONES INSTALLATION
FREQUENCY
PAINTING
ESSAY + ARTIST STATEMENT
It has been a 2-year journey creating the FREQUENCY
PAINTING series and many people have offered their talents and support
for this work. Thank you to EVERYONE below who have helped me to realize this
work...
Gary James Joynes - January 13, 2011
EXTRA
SPECIAL THANKS TO...
David Candler
Scott Smallwood
Susan Kennard
Kenny Lozowski
Banff Centre of the Arts (Banff New Media Institute)
SPECIAL THANKS TO...
Ayden Ellis Joynes (for never ending inspiration)
My Family
Ernst Chladni
Hans Jenny
Cindy Schatkoski
Steve Woollard
Don Hill
Kari McQueen
Juliana Barabas
Todd Janes
Latitude 53
Rory Middleton
Eva Schindling
Maggie Shirley
Bradford Pettigrew
Jody Rusnak
Eric Zeiburlins
Toronto Image Works
Axe Music
MUTEK
Les Robot
Alan Holowaychuk
University of Alberta
Charles Nichols
University of Montana
Joseph Rau
Blair Brennan
Stephanie MacKay
Ed Jordan
Tamara Majiwska
Greg J. Smith
Vague Terrain
Cam Ambrose
Naomi Potter
Laura Vanags
Don Lee
Sarah Fuller
Paul Schmitz
Sonja Norum
Murray Jurac
Paulette Bouchard
Gordana Zivkovic
John Huck
Doug Mansoff
Sheldon Fingler
Adam Tindale
Rob Harpin
Vicky Wong
Alaine Mackenzie
Roger Levesque
Sandra Sperounes
Aaron Macri
Mari Sasano
Tammy Salzl
Maire Leyva
Nicholas Bernier
Electric Fields
Ryan Stec
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Danny Dokken at Metal Supermarket
Dorkbot Edmonton
Garry Wong
Edmonton New Technology Society
Kim Solez
Wayne Bellerose
All the great musicians
and DJs I have had the pleasure
of working with over the last 20 years!
... and finally
anyone else I may have overlooked going
back over 2-years in my memory banks:)
Photograph of FREQUENCY PAINTING : 12 TONES exhibition at Latitude 53
by Cameron Ambrose
