TOM CHAMBERS

Spring's Landfall (2006)

This piece of work explores the idea of lucid dreaming and how we get ourself into unknow situations in our mind. It is about making things a reality in our minds and dreams. When we are left without our sense of sight we can dream up more things in a way that we would not normally explore in our normal state.

ANDREJ GLUSGOLD

Ballerinas (After Degas)

The use of lighting creates a sad and isololated mood in the photographs. It is almost saying that like ballerinas people have to hold their grace, posture and self during dark and uncomfortable times.

Past Works of Synaethesia

Here are some examples of past synaesthesia works. I particularly like the last on as it explores lucid dreaming in a beautiful and calm way.

BillViola

Emergence, 2002
Video Installation
Color High-Definition video rear projection on screen mounted on wall in dark room
Photo: © Kira Perov

Two Women, 2008
Color High-Definition video on plasma display mounted on wall
Performers: Pamela Blackwell and Weba Garretson
Photo: Kira Perov

We have all come from a place of the unborn and we
are all here for a short period of time. we have to cross a
threshold of water and light to arrive and to leave. we will
ultimately all go back to this eternal non-spatial, non-temporal
world of potentiality. a lot of my work deals with questions
like this, of giving birth, death and human transition.

(http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/viola.html)

Eadward Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneering photographer in the late 1800’s. The story is that he set out to answer a question: “Is there a time in a horse’s gallop when all four hooves are off the ground?” To do this he developed an ingenious method of rapidly taking sequential images. As a result, he both answered the question (”Yes.”), and embarked on the creation of the first formal sets of high-speed sequential photographs of both animals and people in motion. His photographic sequences of humans, horses and other animals walking, running, turning, carrying and moving in other ways are still an invaluable resource for artists today.

YOO SEUNG-HO

YOO SEUNG-HO
Eoheung - Once upon a time 2006
Purchased 2007. The Queensland Government's Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund
Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
Image courtesy: One and J Gallery, Seoul

Yoo Seung-ho, “Bzzz……”, ink on paper, 200×157cm，2007

On first glance you might think you are looking at a traditional Korean landscape painting, but on closer inspection the presumed brushstrokes appear as thousands of tiny, grain-size Hangul (traditional script of Korea). This painstaking process is Yoo Seung-ho’s signature mark, a form of poetry inspired by the surreal ‘calligrammes’ of Guillaume Apollinaire (where words make up a shape). With a sense of tongue-in-cheek humour, many of Yoo’s delicate works are linguistic puns that highlight the absurd difference between how a word sounds and its associated meaning. History is humorously referenced in Yoo’s works, which draw format, scale, technical virtuosity and spiritual rigour from traditional Chinese and Korean aesthetics.

Yoo Seung-ho has been praised as one of a select few of his generation who have rejuvenated the artistic and spiritual practice of the traditional arts in Korea.