Mustapiste

Experimental art review

  • If a DVD of David Lynch’s 1978 film Eraserhead was shown as an installation, would that then become “video art”? I think not. (Alan Licht, 2009)

  • Climb up a hill at midday on your birthday every year
    and look at the Sun. Each year Venus will be
    three-eighths of the way further round the Sun,
    drawing a perfect octagram over eight years.

    The main goal of the (rather) short articles is not to explain – or show – or grasp – the gargantuan meaning of sound in this specific context “of art” but rather uncover the different perceptions that sound art has been and is going through.

  • A fun fact I have noticed recently in Helsinki: more artists start to address themselves as “poet”, no matter which discipline of art they come from (music, theatre, painting, photography etc.).

  • The Southern Song Dynasty is often regarded for its developments of art. In music, features became standardised, for example the re-adoption of the moon-temperament (a system of tuning limited to the 3rd harmonic, 3 being a particularly important numeral in ancient China).