Basée sur une installation multimédia de Samson Young au musée d'art moderne de San Francisco, cette monographie rassemble deux essais, un entretien, une riche iconographie et un ensemble de documents offrant autant de nouvelles clés pour comprendre la recherche de l'artiste.
Samson Young's first West Coast solo exhibition debuts Intentness and songs, a multimedia installation at SFMOMA that poetically traces the idiosyncratic rhythms of love, memory, and experiences of time. In this interconnected audiovisual landscape, Young draws on the duration and rhythm of human and generative AI memory recall processes as the basis for polychromatic sculptures, videos, and a mesmerizing soundscape. Visitors are invited to wander through pathways of wooden boards with markings created through a mix of techniques and 3D-printed boards etched and embedded with objects and memories excerpted from the lives of the artist and his husband.
This monograph, published on the occasion of the exhibition, features two new essays by SFMOMA curators Karen Cheung and Alison Guh, a conversation between Xiaoyu Weng and the artist that delves into the exhibition's emotional resonance, and philosophical implications of memory, AI, and time. The publication also includes an extended note on the technical aspects of the work. The texts are accompanied by archival image collages by book designer Dixon Chan.
Largement reconnu pour son approche singulière du son et des nouvelles technologies, Samson Young (né en 1979 à Hong Kong) utilise la performance, la vidéo et l'installation pour examiner rigoureusement les contextes culturels, politiques et historiques du son.
