Saba the Wind, a video-installation by Amirali Navaee synchronized to Open Form, a sound-installation by Mohammad Pazhutan and Honey Haq

Today I want to introduce Kianoosh Akhbari to you, and I start my introduction with a question: "Do you think that our relationship to the image changed that much?" Reality is such because we are such. If it is true, have we changed our perception of reality? Though there is a certain distinction in the perception of reality, through knowledge gained in politics, at University, travelling around the world, or in internet or in practice I think some Iranian artists become surprisingly more capable of changing reality. That's the case of Kianoosh Akhbari. Cave paintings of the prehistoric era sought to represent their surrounding and today’s artist, too, seek to represent their take on their surroundings. Besides the subject matter what has really changed? Has our relationship to the image changed that much? Human beings have always been concerned with representing the world around them. Perspective in Western painting, as well as perceptions of depth in Eastern art, have traditionally sought to represent reality or supra-reality. Even if thought and felt otherwise, the invention of the photographic camera and the advent of the cinema did not solve the unremitting predicament of representation. With this context in mind, in the modern world, images themselves and the use thereof have become tools not to represent but to break the canons of traditional representation. Once artists were able to produce multiple and simultaneous images, and thus escape the restrictions of the single frame, the road was opened where when a single image could not convey a message, another image would come to replace it, and another one after that. This visual back and forth where, as in Saba the Wind, unrelated but connected images shown simultaneously, makes for a unique, unrepeatable and irreversible viewing experience. This process allows the spectator to reach an awareness that stems from the very essence of the image – an essence that exists outside the parameters of reality. This quality of presence and non-presence, of being and fleeing, existed in the cave paintings of prehistoric times. There, forms were painted on walls facing each other, with the difference that the concept of representation then emanated from the unconscious, but emanates today from our consciousness. This consciousness is what gives the art of video-installation a separate and independent identity from other forms of art. Finally I would like to add something more to explain what is Open Form concept and the Moving Architecture of Sound In Time. Appearance of stability in an unstable physical frame could be a sweepstake from the abyss that a sober mind expects from the sounds. Time, in contrast to space, is not just the order of material, but the fluid that can incarnate to shape through the order of physical waves. This invisible fluid can be painted with the sounds and therefore experienced. In each point of time an event happens which shares just one thing with the others, and that is synchronicity. No correlation in the alignment of events by meaning needs to have an explanation. Although in this system, architecture of waves is based on the conceptual relationship of events, or the relationship between ideas, and is structured in the logical way of being parallel on the wings of time, lack of the limitation of beginning and the end lets an individual experience every single sound on its own. Each sound element could be the start to make balance to change "time" to "music". Understanding the structural differences and relations is based on the intervals rather than separate elements. The relationships can manifest themselves as simultaneous occurrences that are meaningfully related. The whole structure cannot be experienced by one in just one moment. Many experiences that are coincidences due to chance in terms of causality suggested the manifestation of parallel events or circumstances in terms of meaning, reflecting this overriding dynamic. The light that becomes radiant energy, descents but the sound that becomes music ascends. In depth of a black hole is a way to passing through time. In the depth of an abyss, time curves. The diamond's origin is the black carbon, and passing the abyss of time which is colored with sounds shall be a unique experience. The "Open Form" gets its sonority with the multi-point method. This gigantic sound structure has a real time mix technique, which is based on the generation of sound from different sources. Written, Composed and Performed by M. Pazhutan and H. Haq Mohammad Pazhutan: Computer Edit, Live Electronics, Programming Honey Haq: Electroplankton, Soprano Recorded and Mastered with 6 –Point Generation technique, originally developed in Atelier of Electronic Audio Arts. www.pazhutan.com December 2009

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