Phillipe Pareno | Tate
The Phillipe Pareno installation at the Tate Modern was really quite mesmerising. It took a while for the whole thing to get going but once it was working it was pretty magical. The whole installation was built around a small plate of bacteria that fed off of the atmosphere around it. The bacteria had control of every aspect of the installation from the lighting to the suspended boards, the speakers and even the fish floating in the Turbine hall.
The Bacteria was determining what happened and when, it was organic and it was a living thing. Sometimes you would find a video being played onto a big screen because that was what the bacteria was telling it to do. The video would sometimes repeat itself and other times it would end after the first run through. I only caught glimpses of two different videos during the couple of hours I was there so I wasn't sure if there were more than two different videos that could have been shown.
The one time I was there something amazing happened. Suddenly the Turbine hall erupted into a frantic roaring sound that turned out to be an aeroplane going overhead the building, or was it? We honestly could never tell because the surround sound was genuinely making it seem like the plane was 20 feet above you thats how loud it was. It was amazing to see such an installation grow out of the artists control. Pareno created this and allowed the bacteria to control it, trusting that it would do the right thing.
Some photographs from the exhibition: //// 10 PHOTOGRAPHS and 10 DRAWINGS//////
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