Two metal stands of different heights (5ft and 4ft), each has been attached to a broken piece of one Vietnamese aluminum plate (mâm). Each piece of the plate does not make whole when put together, but physically connects to each other and the two stands below by a hand-casted, visceral silicone tube of pre-determinate length. Two male performers are asked to repetitively walk around the piece, and move their assigned stands to different location in the room once they reach them. No matter which location the stands are positioned within space they remain a fixed physical "distance" which is the length of the silicone tube linking them. Using household object as signifier, the work is an allegorization about persistent connection when confronting a futile, even repetitive transformation of proximity and location. The project is also an experiment whereas sculpture functions not only as object but also as the dematerialization – an instigation for an act of happening.

Semiotics of Distance

Steel, Aluminum Platter, Silicone, Mixed Media and Performance

2017

Two metal stands of different heights ( 5ft and 4ft), each has been attached to a broken piece from one Vietnamese aluminum platter ( mâm). Pieces of the platter do not make whole when put together, but physically connect by a hand-casted, visceral silicone tube of predeterminate length. Two male performers repetitively walk around the piece and move their assigned stands to different location once they reach them.

No matter which location the two stands are positioned within space they remain a fixed "distance" which is the length of the silicone tube linking them.  Using house-hold object as signifier, the work  is an allegorization about persistent connection when confronting a futile, repetitive transformation of  proximity and location. The project is also an experiment whereas  sculpture functions not only as an object but also as the dematerialisation – an act of happening.  

 

Performance by Shohei Kondo and Roberto Vega.

Video Ostin Fam