Quartet for the Year 4698 or 5760: improvisation for four projectors
Laiwan, Lori Freedman
2004
Laiwan's Quartet for the Year 4698 or 5760 was a multimedia installation that used film, audio, live performance, music improvisation, and computer media. This multidisciplinary installation married visual arts and new music, two disciplines that have collaborated for many years at Open Space. Quartet explored time and space as well as the presence/absence of cultural histories within a critique of the limitations of machines. Moreover, it addressed themes of contemplation/spontaneity, temporality/duration, and bodily presence (live music)/mediated absence (on film). As a whole it was a collaboration in which the framework created by the visual artist and the improvisational abilities of the musician allowed for an exploration of the fleeting nature of improvisation and the relationship of body and machine. Quartet for the Year 4698 or 5760 was installed at Open Space, Victoria, British Columbia, from February 22 to March 23, 2002.
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