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3Destruct 

(2007) 

is a space of visual and sonic deconstruction by Yannick Jacquet
, Jérémie Peeters (visuals) and Thomas Vaquié (music). Half way between light sculpture and 'penetrable" the installation offers an immersive experience.

The installation offers an immersive experience in a non-linear world, where spatial coherence is lost. 3Destruct was originally designed specifically for the Biennale d’art contemporain, which took place in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium in 2007. It has since then been adapted to be presented in various venues.
The video on this page was filmed in Oct 2011 at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes during Scopitone Festival. The installation was redesigned for the occasion.

 

Source: Yannick Jacquet (Legoman)

 

 

A cube-like structure, lights are projected onto it in many different forms which, when you see the video below, is quite spectacular. But what’s even more amazing is that people can walk through the cube as it is being projected onto. 3Destruct challenges the persons’ perception while inside, as the lights disorients the participant walking through the semi hollow cube. Understandably so, as light and its reflection is the means for us to see, and having it manipulated has us having to re-interpret the world around us.

 

Source: whiteboard journal

 

 

3Destruct, *****, architecture, Installation

Reading

Digital Harmony (1980): On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art – John Whitney, Sr. wanted to create a dialog between "the voices of light and tone." All of his early experiments in film and the development of sound techniques lead toward this end. He felt that music was an integral part of the visual experience; the combination had a long history in man's primitive development and was part of the essence of life. His theories On the complementarity of Music and Visual Art were explained in his book, Digital Harmony, published by McGraw-Hill in 1980. (Paradise 2012)

The Art of Projectionism (2007) by Frederick Baker (in German) sets out the principles behind his use of projectors in the film making process. He defines a projectionist school of filmmaking and media art. In this publication he also presented Ambient film, a surround experience that can be shown in specially developed cinemas. (Wikipedia)

See this Sound (2009) by Liz Kotz (Author), Cosima Rainer (Editor), Stella Rollig (Editor), Dieter Daniels (Editor), Manuela Ammer (Editor) compiles a huge number of artists, filmmakers, composers and performers, reaching back into the early twentieth century and into the present to survey overlaps between not only sound and art, sound and film, and the metaphor of cinema as rhythm or symphony. Proceeding chronologically, the book takes the early cinematic eye music of Hans Richter as a starting point, noting parallel works by Walter Ruttmann and Oskar Fischinger; moving into the postwar period, the art/cinema/ music experiments of Peter Kubelka, Valie Export and Michael Snow are discussed, establishing precedents to similar work by Rodney Graham, Carsten Nicolai, Jeremy Deller and many others. (Artbook)

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