EXHIBITION : URBAN FLASHES I : I will be Broken

URBAN FLASHES I : I will be Broken

January 28–February 6, 2011
OPENING: FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 8-12PM
by Yao Chung-Han


Is pleased to present "Urban Flashes I : I will be Broken" by Yao Chung-Han. The exhibition will open on January 28 and will be on view until February 6. The opening reception scheduled for Friday, January 28 and for Friday, Feburary 4 will include a WEEKENDSOUND event of live concert by 3 artists Cedrik Fermont, Olaf Hochherz and Yao Chung-Han beginning at 9.00 pm.

"Urban Flashes I: I will be Broken" is part of DAS Weekend / transmediale.11 / CTM.11.
On the weekend prior to the festivals from 28th until 30th January, CTM, transmediale, Create Berlin and a multitude of Berlin partners together invite you to the inaugural Digital Arts & Sound (DAS)Weekend, when more than 70 independent organizations, venues and individuals active in Berlin will present their activities by setting up their own events and opening doors to their spaces. DAS Weekend aims to draw attention to the many artists, spaces and initiatives active in Berlin with great commitment and exciting ideas to promote artistic work and discourse in the converging zones between digital arts, experimental music and sound art.

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Urban Flashes is four session exhibitions curated by Chun-Chi Wang. The exhibition are explore the work of four groups of artists who make new media such as light, sound, new technology and installation. Contemporary artists play freely with materials and forms. They construct laboratories of perception, focusing on human perception and the ability to manipulate and condition it. The artists work with a direct reference to the modern environment and use its artifacts such as strobe lights and spot lights to create light spaces situated between sensual experience and scientific experiment. The spatial and temporal structures are deconstructed by means of projection.

These four works offer an indication of the future of light techniques at the interface of art and cutting-edge technologies: "I will be Broken" by Yao Chung-Han, "syzygy" by Pei-Wen Liu & Tobias Hoffmann, "Volusonogram"by Tim Vets and "One Moment in Time" by Jiayi Young & Shih-Wen Young.

“URBAN FLASHES I : I will be Broken” 28.01.- 06.02.2011
Electronic devices, florescent light.
I will be gone out of order, but before that, my voice is beautiful.
With a 16.6/second switching frequency, I sing and with the same 16.6/second switching frequency, I break down.
After I am completely broken, I can be discarded.
(Text by Yao Chung-Han)
Fluorescent light has a limited life span. It wears out. Inside a pitch dark space, a string of sparks is continuously triggered by programmed electric currents. The concurrent, minute cracking sounds are amplified by a microphone placed at the upper part of the work. Perceptual contrasts fascinate the artist. In his words, “the visual part is so intense, while the sound is almost imperceptible and yet beautiful.”
Being sensitive to the uncertainties of place, whenever he arrives in a new city, Yao Chung-han would open the hotel’s windows, standing awhile to figure out what kind of place it is. A sudden spurt of sound can become enchanting to him, as if a scene unexpectedly unfolds outside of one’s own apartment. Likewise, an instantaneous sound can appear purposelessly, and thus capture one in amazement.
“I Will be Broken” is such a scene occurring outside of one’s window. Even though it is program-controlled, the approaching of different visitors, with different distances, at random affects the work. For the artist, the visitor is integral to the space of the work.(Text by WU Ting-hsien)
Yao Chung-Han Born in Taipei and a 2008 graduate of the School of Art and Technology, Taipei National University of the Art, Yao Chung-Han is an active member of the new generation of sound artists in Taiwan, which includes the group i/O Lab of which he is a core member. His works are mostly concerned with sound, while at the same time searching for the inherent connections between video, installation, space, and various media. Recent exhibitions include Non-Places: Architecture of Pheromonal Presence, SCU, Taipei (2010); Emergencies!014, NTT ICC, Tokyo (2010); Tokyo Story, Wonder Site, Tokyo (2010); SuperGeneration@Taiwan, Today Art Museum, Beijing (2010), and Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (2009).

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