Tomoko Freeman AKA anticool
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- 2 days ago
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Lone orchestra
Lone Orchestra was a project that intertwined video, music, and performance. The Japanese artist anti-cool turned it into a project of multiple substitutions, gentle imitation and intimate collaboration.Lone Orchestra was screened in 2017 at Low Def for Richard Parry's The Salon at The Lewisham Arthouse in London.
Anti cool, Jeff Keen, @johnhns Hiromi Nakajima, Noriko Okaku, Tatsumi Orimoto, Richard Parry, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Samantha Sweeting & Julia Waugh.
This screening of artist's films was an exploration of Low Definition aesthetics through a series of cinematic portraits, from anticool's memetic gesturing of a "Lone Orchestra" to Samantha Sweeting's dreams of bedroom inhibitions in "I Sleep For You".
If "LD" is more of a suggestion, similar to a sketch or translation, where experience is in the description., as suggested in the phrase "Spider or a blob of spit?", George Bataille introduced ideas of “L'Informé” or "The formless", and contributed to the discussion that was popularised in the 1920s, perhaps as reaction to the increasing mechanised forms of reproduction, that were about to drastically reshape the world.
Can there be a space for ambiguity and other ways the world is represented and ultimately understood, a place where the smudgy and in-between of things can have significance? Here we divide notions of trust and truth, in the acceptance that high resolution will make anything appear real.
"Low Def", still associated with Do It Yourself production, the economically marginalised and with counter culture, the contemporary accessibility to high definition technologies has reimagined concepts of "Low Definition" and it's relevance.
There are prescient and obvious concerns with "High Definition", in its reshaping of reality and the ongoing questions of who or what will be defined. Ideas of artificiality has now far preceded current morality, self identity and the law
."HD" has cultural premium, there is a ghostly equation in a render that almost clones, where mess and meta data are minimised in mimicry and mirrors of replication.
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