I was told that very young children are introduced to music by being
given hand bells, needing no instruction and relying on the instinct to move an
object in hand, producing sound.
In thinking of combinations of objects into other objects, their
individual materiality and function are important to me. The finished object
will sound when one handles it the way its components are used in their
familiar, everyday setting. I want a chair to look and work like a chair; I
want earrings to look and hang like earrings. They don’t belong or make sense together but can be
reconfigured to be, in combination, something else.
I think of this kind of process as akin to writing poetry in plain
language where the use of everyday words, when strung and positioned in certain
ways, can be a way to go in to, out of, or around ordinariness. I intervene
through attempts at going in to, out of, or around these objects’ ordinariness by
opening their "new" properties (such as a specific mode of use,
experiencing of sound) to people who will notice (or not notice) them announce
their small, newly possible, gestures.
Composite Circuits
Group exhibition curated by Dayang Yraola
Vinyl on Vinyl Gallery, Makati City
7 June - 30 July 2018