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Sound has an amorphous quality about it that when coupled with the word ‘art’ presents a very real and immediate problem in terms of presentation in a gallery space. In its pure, unfiltered form sound has no tangible boundaries. It just is. Means used to create, capture, and transmit it often become the unwitting focus in presentations of sound-based works. Installation art approaches can engage audiences in active participation with the listening elements of the work. Yet, often, in the journey from sound to sound art, visual representations become more the focus. How can we take attention away from the vehicles, trappings or visual representations of sound and place it back where it belongs?
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Ben Wilson paints little acrylic paintings on discarded chewing gum that has been stamped into the pavement. His pictures are emblems of contemporary social life – some are declarations of love, some commemorate the absent or dead, some celebrate a gang or the bonds of friendship, others record memories or tokens of identity.
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The term ‘semionaut’ is an interesting phrase; not as jargon, but for the way it can illuminate what is already going on in the sphere of visual communication. How in the age of a ‘knowing’ audience – from art to advertising, film to graphic design – can we communicate meaning? The curator and critic Nicolas Bourriaud charges his artists with the task of becoming semionauts in the current informational realm (the subtitle to his second book is ‘Culture as Screenplay: how art re-programs the world’). Semionauts make connections within our universe of proliferating signs.
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