pictured on the left, Flatbread Library by Sameer Farooq really held my attention. I was so enthralled by the dichotomy it presented. A collection of different cultures and a collection of one humanity. Every culture is so different but at the same time, every culture has a type of flatbread. It also speaks on immigration and the emotional power of connection as all of the bread was collected from the GTA. To me it represents the vast amounts of culture and knowledge around every corner, as well as a sense of unity that can cross cultural bounderies.
Pictured on the right, Interface Remix was the gallery installation by Tishan Hsu. On the top floor of the Moca I walked in circles and Hsu pulled me to an alternate future filled with bio-technological horror. Tishan Hsu’s exhibit played with form, flesh, and machine, combining the natural and unnatural to create something new and futuristic. Hsu explored the rapid growth of technology, as well as alienation and abstraction of the human form. Although most of his work depicts “the future” it couldn’t feel any more relevant or present than right now.
The scale of a kilometer varies based on the measurement. Walking a kilometer is not difficult but visualizing a kilometer is. My idea allows for the visualization of a kilometer through sound, as the listener hears the accumulation of noise from one thousand guitars. One singular guitar is one meter long, meaning that one thousand guitars measured together would be one kilometer at length. The audio of my piece shows the magnitude of measuring a kilometer in objects, subjecting the listener to the chaotic wall of sound that would be created if all one thousand of those guitars were played at once.