Abstract

Author: Joëlle Bitton
Programming: Vincent Roudaut
Drawings: Ailadi Cortelletti
Year: 2007
System: Interactive installation
Exhibitions: Gallery éf, Tokyo, August 2007; Les Nuits de l'Ososphère, Strasbourg, September 2007
Grant: Aide à la Maquette, Dicréam / CNC

Concept: “Abstract” is an interactive installation on the theme of waiting and the perception of the time passing-by: inviting visitors in a space where the body and its movement play the role of interfaces.
From a point of view on the Japanese garden and its vision on the surrounding, aesthetic
and philosophical world, this project is inspired by the tension between elements
intentionally thought here in a contradictory dialog: abstraction and texture, concealment
and disclosure, empty space and framed space.
This installation places the visitor on the razor’s edge: always on the border, between two
worlds, passing from one to the other. This is the experience of difference and of a fragile
balance, of what is called in the Japanese culture, the impermanence of things. The latter is then staged in a relationship to the cycle of time, to the emotions that the expectation of something to happen can generate.

Launch video excerpt (QT movie, 3'30, 5mo).
Launch Gallery éf interview and presentation.
Launch Tokyo Art Beat review.
Vincent Roudaut documented the research on the technology and related topics in a wiki (in french).

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