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[Nettime-nl] [OKNO] Life is Short and Getting Shorter All the Time by Sam Ashley
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- Subject: [Nettime-nl] [OKNO] Life is Short and Getting Shorter All the Time by Sam Ashley
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- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:12:56 +0100
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OKNO - artist run organisation for art and mediatechnology - brussels
Life is Short and Getting Shorter All the Time
by Sam Ashley
Opening performance january 13th 15h00
First run of the exposition from january 13th to 16th, 14h to 18h
(further dates to be announced)
http://okno.be/index.php?id=1203
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okno.be will premier a new work by Sam Ashley called Life is Short
and Getting Shorter All the Time, an installation built from simple
electro-mechanical oscillators.
The installation looks, and in some ways behaves, something like
organic life. The oscillators are fragile, but they succeed in
filling the room with a complex noise. The idea behind the work is
that the installation offers a type of noise that might be conducive
to "auditory hallucinations". This is a recurring theme in Sam
Ashley's work, and is one of the ways he seeks to bring the mystical
experience into the realm of sound art.
Sam Ashley has been a kind of modern-day witch-doctor for most of his
life, researching trance over more than 40 years. Life is Short and
Getting Shorter All the Time is part of The Oracle Project, in which
Sam seeks to create sound or visual art works that can genuinely
support the flow of useful information from the soul of us to our minds.
Sam Ashley has devoted his life to the development of an experimental
(and non-religious) mysticism; his only "belief" is that we can find
out for ourselves. His musical, performance and other artistic works
are the result of this. He hopes to offer simple windows onto some of
the unusual experiences and phenomena of a shamanic lifestyle. Many
of his performance works over the last 30 years have featured
experiments in authentic spirit possession, for example, and most of
his music has dealt in some way with the subject of "hallucination".
Many of Sam's works are about coincidence and luck.
Where :: OKNO (2nd floor) Koolmijnenkaai 30/34 â Quai aux
Charbonnages Brussels 1080
When :: sunday, october 28 from 3pm till 8pm
How to reach :: tram 18 and metro Graaf van Vlaanderen / Comte de
Flandres
Entrance :: free
Supported by :: the Flemish Authorities (Vlaamse Gemeenschap) and the
Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC).
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