[-empyre-] New art

[Renate Ferro]

Thanks Isak for sending us links to CHOKRA's work. Generally one of the
things I wish we could have talked about this month is the role of the
viewer/consumer in the  "gesture" towards convergence.  While in Korea
earlier this month, one of the observations that Tim and I made was that
while "the spectacular"  enticed in the viewer in the critical engagement
did not seem evident. The spectacle became part of an advertisement or
commercialism.  Realizing that  Alex wrote that the spectacle itself was a
 political statement against the old fashioned communist regime I wonder
how aware most viewers possibly recognized this political gesture.

My caution/question to all of us, both producers and critics, is how to
enable the receiver to critically engage the content despite the
mesmerizing blast of sensorial output. Isak what intrigues me about CHOKRA
is the inclusion of scent which may be a visceral cue that reacting and
thinking are expected and encouraged.  I can smell the crude oil and the
spices as I read them on the screen before I opened the links to the work
and that provided me with a powerful political entry into this engaging
work.

Thanks to all of you who participated.  Tim may be closing down this
discussion as I write this.  Renate






On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Isak Berbic <isakberbic at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Chokra:
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> http://vimeo.com/36801706
>
> http://vimeo.com/62685199
>
> http://vimeo.com/42802080
>
> -
>
> CHOKRA (Conscious Hoarding Of Kinetic Rage Associated) is a performance &
> music artist from the United Arab Emirates. His sensorial performances
> integrate surrealistic visuals with automated multilingual rap-rhymes
> uttered in Arabic, Urdu and English. Combining audio-visual software,
> algorithmic animations and multi-channel sound, CHOKRA's performances
> situate a multi-faceted processing of sensorial realities with a heightened
> propagation of scent, crude oil, pyromania, brilliant pigments, spices and
> crushed gold.
>
> Bio is copy pasted from the internet:
> http://89plus.com/events/abdullah-al-mutairi/
> October, 29, 2013
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