2010–2011
New York-based artists Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin, and Tbilisi-based artist Gela Patashuri collaborated on this project to create a human-size speaker-cum-music studio in The Showroom's gallery.
Ensembles of Showroom staff or members of the gallery’s local community used objects and materials in the studio to play a specific score, which was then played back by the structure.
The project toured to France: to Betonsalon in Paris and CAC Bretigny.
This project was supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the Japan Foundation, and was commissioned in the framework of Circular Facts, a cooperative circuit for itinerant research and projects by artists initiated by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, and The Showroom in collaboration with Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen and Electric Palm Tree; financially supported by the European Commission.
Arakawa, born in 1977 in Japan, Tcherepnin in 1981 in the USA, and Patashuri in Georgia in 1973, have been working collaboratively since 2008 on projects at Casco, Utrecht (2010), New Jerseyy, Basel (2009) and in Tbilisi (2008, 2009).
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