The exhibition presents three possibilities of embodiment: the interactive installation TAKUS invites the viewer to participate in the work and to create the image themselves - in micro and macro scales - by moving the knobs of the "console", to experience and observe the effects of their movements on the screen. Another incarnation employs sound - the human voice or music - to echo the sound waves of water and to capture this transformation of sound into image in photographs. A third group of embodiments is the transformation of radio noise, an acoustic nonsense caught seemingly at random, into the most meaningful images. All the works are united by their fluidity, each time a different unique information is embodied in the presence of the viewer. Although the concept of the open work, formulated by semiotician Umberto Eco in 1962, has been recognised in the art world, it is only now that technological challenges have allowed it to enter the field of visual design. The acoustic or kinetic information visualised by viewers through magnetic fluid or water waves has stimulated engagement, creativity and self-reflection, while requiring no special skills (e.g. drawing or singing), and is becoming a contribution to the well-being of human beings in this (post?)pandemic, war-torn world. The exhibition will be open at Vilnius Town Hall (Didžioji str. 31) until 1 March.
Rūta Mickienė and Virginijus Mickus: "Takus View" Sesje