“The Art of Sleep”
The title of this piece stood out from the rest of the artwork to me. The thumbnail was just a blank box as opposed to all the other colorful eye-catching pieces. The piece is simple; comprised of a plain blank canvas with changing big black font that is synchronized to a catchy soundtrack. The artist, Young-Hae Chang, does a great job of pacing the sentences to keep the viewer interested enough to keep reading, well, at least for me. I felt like he was trying to be a little too artsy with it (maybe trying to prove his “art”work), but overall, I thought his presentation and concept were simple and intriguing. It’s kind of long.. http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/artofsleep/ It’s not letting me link the Gif/thumbnail to link to the website so please copy and paste the address.
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Wow, ok. So I actually didn’t watch the entire piece when I posted my previous comment but I just sat down and watched the whole 18 and a half minutes of it and I must say, I absolutely love it. Once you get into the rhythm of the music, you can almost sing along with it; the streaming words or “thoughts” act as lyrics.
The piece itself is SO simple but it has so many dimensions to it that viewers are able to enjoy the piece in various different ways (Watch it! You’ll know what I mean). The synchronization between the words and music creates a trance-y effect; very effective.
“Art” is futile because everything is art! Highly recommended.
This same artist has a work on display at the New Museum right now. It is essentially the same thing as this work, but expanded to four video monitors, each of which tells a perspective of a story from a singular subjective view point. It is interesting how that idea is an out reach or expansion of this one. Has anyone else seen that?