AREAL (2010)
A new work by Artist-in-Residence Richard Garet
Interdisciplinary artist Richard Garet presents AREAL, a new work for active listening, with further emphasis on physical reception by utilizing light and fog to activate ISSUE Project Room's environment. This presentation anticipates the publication of Richard Garet's AREAL by the West Coast media label 23Five Incorporated. It is not only the first time that this composition has been presented, but also the starting point for this performance installation. Garet fills ISSUE Project Room's performance area with fog, and an overhead projector displays colored light and activates the atmospheric space by changing color dynamics over time. The projector directs light to the floor, creating a cone of light. The visitors find themselves inside of the work actively listening and viewing. This piece emphasizes the experiential, the sensorial, and the active-reception of the body and mind. AREAL, as a composition, is a work that focuses on surfaces, gestures, differences, and distances among material and its phenomenology. It focuses on activating and amplifying expressive sonic manifestations of electromagnetic waves utilizing radio technology. All sounds used to make this piece emerge from interacting with objects, exciters, and extended techniques to activate sounds within the perimeter of the working table space. The outcome emerges from physical modulations and from establishing relationships that simulate social and spatial interactivity in the form of conversation, where what is voiced out is the result of colliding effects that are vacuumed by electromagnetic receivers from within the atmosphere of the working area.
Richard Garet serves as ISSUE Project Room’s Artist-in-Residence October through December 2010. Garet’s works interweave multiple media including moving image, sound, live performances, and photography. Even though Garet’s work suits the standard gallery setting, many of his other activities as an artist explore the various practices of experimental sound and video performance.
