INDEX 2022:RYOICHI KUROKAWA

In subassemblies physical
ruins are digitally rendered using a combination of 3D imaging data, thermal
images and filmed footage. The work weaves footage of architecture in varying
stages of disrepair together with digitally rendered interpretations of ruins,
creating “an in-motion hybrid reality that, through its layers of order and
disorder, renews history’s accepted timeline and exposes the forces of nature
and art for their combined possibilities. 
subassemblies explores the powerful relationship
between buildings and their surroundings, human-made structures and nature. It
also articulates the combined role of humans and digital media in producing and
understanding space; the increasing involvement of algorithms in defining what
is built, how structures are repaired, and perhaps what constitutes a
‘ruin’.     

Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa is a true poet of transformative cinema,
lyrically transfiguring the analogue representations of perceived nature into
digital streams of vertiginous imagery & emotion. The architecturally
crafted precision of his sensitively synched fragmentary images placed side by
side on our retina, tends to displace the persistence of blurred memory under
the effect of boundless luminosity. Audio and visual concordance are key in Kurokawa’s works. He
considers both the audio and visual element as different vectors of a unique
piece and insists that they have to flow together to enter a collision at the
same time. 

Audiovisual show

2019

HD projection | 4.1ch sound | 16ch strobe light 

45’00’  

Concept, direction, composition, programming: Ryoichi Kurokawa 

Producer: Nicolas Wierinck (Archer & Weaver) 

Co-production: LOXOSconcept (Matera 2019), MUTEK, Stereolux/Scopitone,
TodaysArt 

Acknowledgment: FUTUR 21 / LWL and LVR industrial museums 

Produced by Studio RYOICHI KUROKAWA