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2022~
Single-channel video
26’58”
An Ode to Our Plasticity (2023) delves into the multifaceted interpretations of art as co-created by performer and audience. The work emerges from the artist’s analytical engagement with the theoretical underpinnings of music, which led to the realisation of their physical impossibility to perform Robert Schumann’s solo piano composition Humoreske (1839). This impasse prompted the artist to commission a pianist colleague to record the piece. However, the artist’s original conceptual understanding of the music inherently diverges from another interpreter’s rendition.
Through a meticulous process of post-production, the artist manipulates the pianist’s interpretation to propose an alternative reading of the work. The video is stretched, and the audio distorted, resulting in a transformative recontextualisation. The piece underscores the evolutionary nature of art—particularly music—within an ever-expanding ecosystem of reinterpretation and re-production, advocating for a fluid and open-ended dialogue within the art world.