++ [en]
:: dome, acrylic sphere, color sensor, iron, acrylic
5+1 way speaker system, fluorescent light, projector, computer, etc.
:: 5000 ~ 5000 ~ 5000
:: [ interactive installation ]
:: 1999
The world is surely a circle (= en).
The universe, as well as the structure of the molecule, consists of circles and spheres.
So, one wonders, what is the world made of?
And the answers are endless. Everything that one can imagine helps to form the world.
Choosing two among them and setting them side by side, one can glimpse a certain aspect of the world. This, one might say, is a narrative.
In the where "[en] "s on display there is an enormous hemispherical dome with a diameter of five meters. Visitors enter this structure to fine several dozen colorful hemispheres lined up ona rack. They choose two of these and put them together to make a sphere, which causes an image to be projected on the walls of the dome as if it had been released from captivity inside the smaller sphere. The image consists of a variety of iconified objects which combine to make a single "body". (For example, the combination of a blue horseΥs head and a lion Τs body gives a bizarre blue and yellow animal.)
Visitors are thus able to find the perfect sphere for themselves by experimenting with
different combinations.
When several visitors put sphere together simultaneously the resulting "bodies" interact
according to certain rules. (For example, when a blue and yellow animal appears at the same time as a green and blue bird, they may come together and become friends, fight, or fuse together.) In each instance a relationship emerges between the two ot more people in the exhibition space.
"[en]" can also be accessed through an Internet site.
Participants can insert hemispheres of their own design into the work to mingle with others. Thus the hemispheres in the exhibition space do not constitute a complete world on their own, but are connected to hemispheres from other worlds through the Internet.
The work as a whole arises out of this connection.
People looking for the "perfect" sphere by combining two small hemispheres inside the enormous hemispherical dome screen unconsciously find themselves communicating with another hemisphere inside the vast world of the Internet.
Plato believed that human beings were originally spherical in shape. But their power was too great as spheres, so the gods sliced them in two to create human beings as they are today. Hemispherical humanity has been in search of its other half ever since.