Live Performance / Video: 6 Moments (2004)
Presented by Festival Accès Asie
Live painting & music performance
KAKIM GOH
Ink painting on silk
DONALD QUAN
Yang Chin, Gu Zheng,
Indian tabla, Disklavier grand piano
Curated by Janet Lumb
Live painting & music performance
KAKIM GOH
Ink painting on silk
DONALD QUAN
Yang Chin, Gu Zheng,
Indian tabla, Disklavier grand piano
Curated by Janet Lumb
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MONTREAL @ OBORO New Media Laboratory
4001, rue Berri, local 301 Montreal, Quebec, H2L 4H2, Canada |
TORONTO @ Studio Q
401 Richmond Street West Suite B102 Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3A8, Canada |
Saturday, May 15, 2004 @ 2:00PM
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Video title: 6 Moments
Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds Production date: Copyright © 2004 OBORO MONTREAL @ OBORO New Media Laboratory
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TORONTO @ Studio Q
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The video “6 Moments” documents a live interactive simultaneous webcast improvisation between two artists in two cities: visual artist Kakim Goh in Montreal and multi-instrumentalist, musician and composer Donald Quan in Toronto.
The performance was presented before live audiences at Montreal’s OBORO New Media Laboratory and Toronto’s Studio Q on May 15, 2004. The premise of the project was to explore the technology of streaming video as a means of bridging physical distances and building community through a dialogue of sounds and images. The event was curated by Janet Lumb and presented by OBORO as part of Festival Accès Asie's 2004 edition.
The video documentation of the performance is now permanently available at oboro.tv’s On-line Moments website. The “6 Moments” performance is also the subject of two articles penned by Donald Quan and Cindy Mochizuki, which appeared in the “Moments” catalogue published by OBORO in 2006.
The performance was presented before live audiences at Montreal’s OBORO New Media Laboratory and Toronto’s Studio Q on May 15, 2004. The premise of the project was to explore the technology of streaming video as a means of bridging physical distances and building community through a dialogue of sounds and images. The event was curated by Janet Lumb and presented by OBORO as part of Festival Accès Asie's 2004 edition.
The video documentation of the performance is now permanently available at oboro.tv’s On-line Moments website. The “6 Moments” performance is also the subject of two articles penned by Donald Quan and Cindy Mochizuki, which appeared in the “Moments” catalogue published by OBORO in 2006.
… I was taken by surprise when the notes I had played started to return to me. They were now embellished by the visual of Kakim’s painting and his physical movements. I began to see Kakim as a dancer that I was accompanying in the present and future simultaneously. The image being created on his silk was becoming his own recording, or physical manifestation, of the improvised dance that he was doing to my music.
Donald Quan, “6 Moments: A Musician’s Perspective,” Moments (Catalogue), OBORO, 2006, 15.