Exhibition
Strata - Rock, Dust, Stars presents Ryoichi Kurokawa

Fri, 28.09.2018 -
Sun, 25.11.2018
York Art Gallery

A landmark exhibition at York Art Gallery featuring moving image, new media and interactive artwork, Strata - Rock, Dust, Stars takes its inspiration from William Smith’s ground-breaking geological map Delineating Strata, which identified the layers of the Earth and transformed the way in which the world was understood. It will be the most ambitious and large scale media art exhibition York has ever hosted and features the work unfold.alt  by Berlin-based artist Ryoichi Kurokawa.

This exhibition explores how our understanding of stratum has shaped our relationship with the environment. From modernist technologies of exploration and observation, to the classification of the Anthropocene, Strata - Rock, Dust, Stars re-visions exploration, recording and observation from the microscopic to the cosmological.

unfold.alt is a single screen version of unfold, originally developed as an immersive and sensory installation. Inspired by the latest discoveries in the field of astrophysics, unfold translates the formation and evolution of stars into sounds, images and vibrations. It contains ten phases of stellar formation, presented in reverse chronological order. Kurokawa’s works are compositions - symphonies of sounds in combination with video material and computer generated aesthetics - which change how the spectator views the familiar.

Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa (b.1978, JP.) uses various media - video, installation, recording and live performances - in order to produce stunning audio-visual sound pieces which he has been presenting internationally since 1999. He describes his works as time-based sculptures and considers sound and image as a single unit. Kurokawa has exhibited and performed at various international art institutions and festivals including at Tate Modern, London; the 54th Venice Biennale, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice; transmediale, Berlin; Center for Fine Arts, Brussels; Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris; eARTS, Shanghai and MACBA, Barcelona.

The exhibition will premiere in York and will run in the City from 27th September 2018 until 6th January 2019, when it is planned to begin an international tour.

Strata - Rock, Dust, Stars is supported by the Goethe-Institut.