Electronic Theater | Aichi Triennale, Japan
Video still, Anatomy, 2022, HD video
Anatomy, 2022, HD video
Video still, Forest Museum, 2022, HD video
Video still, Forest Museum, 2022, HD video
Installation view at Aichi Triennale 2022. ©︎ Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee. Photo: ToLoLo studio
Installation view at Aichi Triennale 2022. ©︎ Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee. Photo: ToLoLo studio
Video still, Parliament, 2022, HD video
Video still, Murder, 2022, HD video
Karuti’s installation sets off with the mounted clocks still visible in the library & most of the rooms at the former nursing school. The hands of the clocks become an extended way to think about suspended time, creation & labour, body anatomy as well as other cinematic and surreal observations activated through Jackie’s month-long visit to Japan in July 2022.
Karuti’s use of moving images, sculptural forms, scans, drawings & electrical objects position the medical library as a site where knowledge is not only accessed and produced but an operating room where imagination is projected beyond normal human language & understanding. She further states that the library is not only a space for the intellectual but the worker as well. This is especially seen through the video (parliament/murder) depicting an owl & a crow; two birds known to symbolize wisdom & skill respectively. Placed side by side, they take on opposite but necessary meanings with the owl as a quiet observer and the crow as a noisy scavenger.
The final result is an expanded multimedia experience that links the library to a (hospital) theatre where multiple observations & transformations take place and are seemingly powered by the machines that tirelessly construct and illuminate the space.
