Month 2: Volume 2
let us dodge the empire of predictability
Welcome to (Month 2: Volume 2), the third exclusive collection for paid subscribers! Thank you again for supporting this project, I really appreciate it!
(Month 2: Volume 2) contains twenty-one contemporary visual artists from all over the world with an emphasis on Ukrainian artists, fifteen pieces of contemporary literature: poetry/fiction/theory/interviews, six mind-blowing albums, fifteen entrancing videos: artworks, fashion shows, music videos, interviews, documentaries, and more stuff that resists categorization!
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ALUCIIN (2020)
directed by Florence To
Using generative motion graphics and an architectural approach to spatial design, artist and director Florence To condenses her interests in psychoacoustics, neuroscience and computational methods into ambitious sound and light installations.
With ‘ALUCIIN’, the artist turns her attention to her dreams, examining the relationship between movement and time by rendering conceptual visualisations of her different dream states.
“There is no rational experience but indispensable ambiguity between the temporal and conceptual”, she says of the piece. “The textures evolve into advanced repetitive variations inherent to contradictions and dualities”.
The hypnagogic sounds accompanying the animations were made using Cyema, an instrument of To’s own making that utilises the resonances of a number of synthesised iron rods. To weaves these soundscapes into the fabric of her dream visualisations, anchoring these abstract textures into a cohesive audiovisual experience.