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The SI is pleased to announce a special project by Mika Tajima:
a site-specific installation merging sculpture, sound and
architectural space for the SI library. Her work will be composed
of reflective plexi, laser-cut with repeating patterns, and
installed in modular panels around a rough perimeter of the
library so as to create a destabilizing environment; one where
sound, sight and architecture interchange. Tajima invites
the viewer to interact with reflections and reverberations
comprised of a two-dimensional minimalist pattern and simple
serialist sounds. The mirrored space propagates the pattern,
which becomes dense, repetitive and then broken, layered,
and degrades like an echo. The reflective surfaces begin to
shatter the images and break down perception. Ultimately,
the viewer may see an echo or hear a reflection: the diverse
products of sound and vision traded freely.
The title of the work "Echoplex" comes from the
name of an analog effect box for music, which delays, echoes
and loops sounds. In order to achieve a similar kind of effect
in her installation, combining loops of both sound and space,
Tajima researched Robert Smithson’s work focusing on
his use of mirrors and Dan Graham’s insights on the
integration of sound and architecture.
Tajima is interested in at once revering and perverting the
tropes of pure minimalism to create works that allow her audience
to slip between comfort and discomfort, harmony and discord.
Her methods and materials support her goal of generating a
transfer between the solace and alienation of serial repetition
and the imperfection of minimalism.
Tajima works and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is a central
member of the New Humans,
who will be playing during the inaugural events at the new
Walker Art Center. This is her first solo project in New York.
The SI
is pleased to announce a new initiative of special projects
for our smaller spaces by emerging New York artists, organized
by SI associate curator, Gabrielle Giattino.
The special project by Mika Tajima is made possible with public
funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, (NYSCA)
a State agency.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11 AM - 6 PM
Press Contact: Gabrielle Giattino, Associate Curator |
