SIGNAL#1
EJAR Artist-in-Residency Programme
Feb - Aug 2023
Signal #1 was a durational project with the following activities:
1. Artist-in-Residency
2. Exhibition
3. Live Performance / Jamming Sessions
4. Discussions & Public Artist Talks
5. Zine / Artist Book
Feb - Aug 2023
Signal #1 was a durational project with the following activities:
1. Artist-in-Residency
2. Exhibition
3. Live Performance / Jamming Sessions
4. Discussions & Public Artist Talks
5. Zine / Artist Book
Curatorial Text: Signal (as) a Belief
(Excerpt)
Foreword: On Signal
...
The witness of signal(s) suggested the presence of at least one transmitter and one receiver, even both ends are not to be seen.
The status of a signal / signals suggests the status of the channel of communication, a relationship, often a “common ground” agreed by both ends with a protocol.
Signals, over the time, accumulate as data (or garbage), stored as archive (or lost in time).
And when signals are sent from both ends, a relationship is established.
...
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On Communication / “Jamming”
...
Artistic practice, as personal expression, as jamming, as communication...
On Collective / Collectivity
...
The self-actualisation of each members’ is fundamentally but also gradually achieved by the intimacy within the mature trust being built among the consistence flow of communication in a collective...
On Subjectivity / Individuality / Freedom / Responsibility
...
Meanwhile...Collective is an reflective existence of individuals, an very intense reflective process of self-dialogue with detached third party’s perspective where daily functioning occasions will not easily allow the one to do...
it is the context in which the reflections are being mirrored that matters. There is no distorted reflection,
like a blind man couldn’t distort an elephant even if he can't see.
(Excerpt)
- Foreword: On Signal
- On Communication / “Jamming”
- On Collective / Collectivity
- On Subjectivity / Individuality / Freedom / Responsibility
Foreword: On Signal
...
The witness of signal(s) suggested the presence of at least one transmitter and one receiver, even both ends are not to be seen.
The status of a signal / signals suggests the status of the channel of communication, a relationship, often a “common ground” agreed by both ends with a protocol.
Signals, over the time, accumulate as data (or garbage), stored as archive (or lost in time).
And when signals are sent from both ends, a relationship is established.
...
||
On Communication / “Jamming”
...
Artistic practice, as personal expression, as jamming, as communication...
On Collective / Collectivity
...
The self-actualisation of each members’ is fundamentally but also gradually achieved by the intimacy within the mature trust being built among the consistence flow of communication in a collective...
On Subjectivity / Individuality / Freedom / Responsibility
...
Meanwhile...Collective is an reflective existence of individuals, an very intense reflective process of self-dialogue with detached third party’s perspective where daily functioning occasions will not easily allow the one to do...
it is the context in which the reflections are being mirrored that matters. There is no distorted reflection,
like a blind man couldn’t distort an elephant even if he can't see.
