Playback
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First presented in 1989, in a version featuring twelve turntables, Playback is an installation comprising a range of audio sources: music composed in the 80s by two Dumb Type members (Toru Yamanaka and Teiji Furuhashi), bizarre vocalisations on English language lessons and greetings recorded in a variety of languages from the data disc, to be sent into space aboard the NASA Voyager probe in 1977. The installation is inspired by Pleasure Life, a 1988 performance featuring a number of individuals in a grid environment of thirty-six plinths supporting a range of networked technological devices - television sets, computers etc. Forming a miniature city known as The Colony', the present installation examines our ability to communicate in 'the global village', a world in which technology has seemingly annihilated geographical distance, creating the illusion of proximity.
From 20 January to 14 May 2018, as part of "ACTIONS+REFLEXIONS" (Dumb Type solo exhibition), Centre Pompidou-Metz (FR).
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