- Mirror Three
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with Yan Jun
- Sound installation
Group of Three interprets Mirror Three
with Sean Martin-Buss and Jess Robinson
Site Specific Performance Work
- Te Tuhi
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Auckland
- Photos: Alena Kavka
Mirror Three is part of a continuing series of collaborative sound and video works between Ōtautahi-based Noel Meek and Beijing-based Yan Jun. Their work explores two lived environments a world apart.
Yan Jun’s “micro feedback” techniques, utilising very small microphones and speakers, reflect the intensely urban, anthropocentric Beijing environment he primarily works in. Noel Meek’s found materials (including stone, metals, wood, plastics) echo the Ōtautahi Residential Red Zone that his workspace borders, drawing sonically on discarded objects and materials found in abandoned gardens and other non-anthropocentric places.
Jun and Meek’s collaborations are created according to tight pre-set parameters and neither artist hears the other’s work until the pieces are mixed. Each iteration of their “Mirror” series explores these divergent sound practices, reflecting both the contrasting locales each artist works in and allowing the sounds to forge their own relationships with each other.
Drawn from the divergent soundworlds in Ōtautahi and Beijing, Mirror Three took on new resonances in Te Tuhi’s Speaker Space in Pakuranga, Aotearoa, a location caught in the interstices of suburban and urban development.