Unknown entropy
This project is a collaboration between the artist SooMin Leong and Seila Fernández Arconada made in 2011.
"We have an end and a beginning which is joined to a much longer invisible line in the past and in the future." Richard Long Walking The Line, 2002.
This quote reflects the essence of this project. The invisible line mentioned by Richard Long relates to the mark left by our passage and future predictions in this “unknown entropy”. This state is part of a process in which our life tries to achieve the notion of order in the middle of disorder. In other words, we try to make sense of the natural chaos so that we can be part of that entropy.
Concepts:
- Hidden/ Unknown
- Confusion / ambiguity/ reflection/ layering
- Space/ cycle / nature
- Travel/ mapping/ movement / time
With this project we explored the unknown entropy physically by walking in an unfamiliar space, in this case London. We chose London because of its complicated, labyrinth like structure, which can be an example of order.
We did look into this order through the combination of senses, (vision and hearing) and techniques (photography and drawings) as part of our method. Therefore we are carrying out a performance in which Seila walks in the city as the field data collector (describing the surrounding and taking photographs) and Soomin located indoors gives her instructions (directing her) in order to get that data by a phone call.
This translation process is a collaborative combination of senses to create. Drawing, photographs and sounds are the outcomes as well as the documentation of the performance. We both record our conversation as well as the sounds of our environment.
One is immersed in that entropy being disorder and the other is order (directing) and interpreting that entropy through order (drawing as interpretation of reality).
This project is a collaboration between the artist SooMin Leong and Seila Fernández Arconada made in 2011.
"We have an end and a beginning which is joined to a much longer invisible line in the past and in the future." Richard Long Walking The Line, 2002.
This quote reflects the essence of this project. The invisible line mentioned by Richard Long relates to the mark left by our passage and future predictions in this “unknown entropy”. This state is part of a process in which our life tries to achieve the notion of order in the middle of disorder. In other words, we try to make sense of the natural chaos so that we can be part of that entropy.
Concepts:
- Hidden/ Unknown
- Confusion / ambiguity/ reflection/ layering
- Space/ cycle / nature
- Travel/ mapping/ movement / time
With this project we explored the unknown entropy physically by walking in an unfamiliar space, in this case London. We chose London because of its complicated, labyrinth like structure, which can be an example of order.
We did look into this order through the combination of senses, (vision and hearing) and techniques (photography and drawings) as part of our method. Therefore we are carrying out a performance in which Seila walks in the city as the field data collector (describing the surrounding and taking photographs) and Soomin located indoors gives her instructions (directing her) in order to get that data by a phone call.
This translation process is a collaborative combination of senses to create. Drawing, photographs and sounds are the outcomes as well as the documentation of the performance. We both record our conversation as well as the sounds of our environment.
One is immersed in that entropy being disorder and the other is order (directing) and interpreting that entropy through order (drawing as interpretation of reality).