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Natalie Tsyu "The Void Song - [Listen, Human Women]"
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Natalie Tsyu
In the oral tradition, songs are one of the ways of communication between landscape, living beings, and non-living beings. Songs resonate through the body and go beyond the body.
As one of the surrounding ingredients, we as human beings within circulation could go through the different stages between living beings and non-living ones, between human and nonhuman. It is only a matter of time how long we remain in one of the stages and how we, as an ingredient in our environment, move in/out of them.
This work is based on Natalie’s current artistic research in Hokkaido, where the tradition of the oral song is preserved in the DNA of the local landscape to this day. During one of her field trips, the artist came across a booklet of Hokkaido veterinarians that among other things contained notes about the diseases circulating in indigenous communities, notes on plants, and natural medicines as such. This opened up space for such a question: How can the ability of the immune system become a form of sound vibrations that, in their experimental form, reveal to us their knowledge about landscapes that preserve the oldest fragile traditions of the transition from human beings to living beings, from oral form to material one, from human to nonhuman? As a result, Natalie created a laboratory space: The Void Song, where through a sensitive installation sound goes between several stages of circulation and infection, and eventually forms its own significant form of immunity.
The Void Song is an ongoing exhibition structure that includes different types of songs. Depending on the exhibition space a specific song will be presented as a solo one. Within the Ona Project Room, Natalie Tsyu will show The Void Song - [Listen, Human Women].
Focusing on traditional Ainu epics, the artist drew attention to the sounding elements from the lyrics of the oral songs and a landscape which through the structure of the exposition became the melody of translation. As the main ingredients for the sound, Natalie picked up materials from the yukar lyrics. In an exposition structure, you can follow the sounding ingredients such as a woman's hair, Ainu liquor, bear fur, dead fish, rice, salt, some local medicine, and water as the main material for sound transition and circulation in a space. In the Ona Project Room space, you could find a book with the highlights from artist notes. This book will be a guide for visitors to explore the nature of the nuances in the non/living soundscape of the "The Void Song: Listen, Human Woman" lab structure.
As an artist and conductor, Natalie Tsyu would perform a series of short sound performances during the exhibition, inviting visitors to observe how the sound circulates in the non/human landscapes and creates a specific immunity by itself.
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Dates: May 26 (Fri) 19:00-
May 27 (Sat) 14:30-
May 28 (Sun) 14:30-
Fee: Free, no reservation required.
As one of the surrounding ingredients, we as human beings within circulation could go through the different stages between living beings and non-living ones, between human and nonhuman. It is only a matter of time how long we remain in one of the stages and how we, as an ingredient in our environment, move in/out of them.
This work is based on Natalie’s current artistic research in Hokkaido, where the tradition of the oral song is preserved in the DNA of the local landscape to this day. During one of her field trips, the artist came across a booklet of Hokkaido veterinarians that among other things contained notes about the diseases circulating in indigenous communities, notes on plants, and natural medicines as such. This opened up space for such a question: How can the ability of the immune system become a form of sound vibrations that, in their experimental form, reveal to us their knowledge about landscapes that preserve the oldest fragile traditions of the transition from human beings to living beings, from oral form to material one, from human to nonhuman? As a result, Natalie created a laboratory space: The Void Song, where through a sensitive installation sound goes between several stages of circulation and infection, and eventually forms its own significant form of immunity.
The Void Song is an ongoing exhibition structure that includes different types of songs. Depending on the exhibition space a specific song will be presented as a solo one. Within the Ona Project Room, Natalie Tsyu will show The Void Song - [Listen, Human Women].
Focusing on traditional Ainu epics, the artist drew attention to the sounding elements from the lyrics of the oral songs and a landscape which through the structure of the exposition became the melody of translation. As the main ingredients for the sound, Natalie picked up materials from the yukar lyrics. In an exposition structure, you can follow the sounding ingredients such as a woman's hair, Ainu liquor, bear fur, dead fish, rice, salt, some local medicine, and water as the main material for sound transition and circulation in a space. In the Ona Project Room space, you could find a book with the highlights from artist notes. This book will be a guide for visitors to explore the nature of the nuances in the non/living soundscape of the "The Void Song: Listen, Human Woman" lab structure.
As an artist and conductor, Natalie Tsyu would perform a series of short sound performances during the exhibition, inviting visitors to observe how the sound circulates in the non/human landscapes and creates a specific immunity by itself.
[Related Event]
Performance
Dates: May 26 (Fri) 19:00-
May 27 (Sat) 14:30-
May 28 (Sun) 14:30-
Fee: Free, no reservation required.
Schedule | May 26 (Fri) 2023-May 28 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||
| Website | https://onaprojectroom.com/natalie-tsyu | ||
| Venue | Ona Project Room https://onaprojectroom.com | ||
| Location | 3-13-7 Kyojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 131-0046 | ||
| Access | 5 minute walk from exit A2 at Keisei-Hikifune Station on the Keisei Oshiage line, 10 minute walk from the East exit of Hikifune Station on the Tobu Skytree and Kameido lines. | ||
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