25/04/2012
switch – kouichi okamoto solo exhibition
DATE : April 27 - June 3, 2012
opening hours 11:00-20:00
LOCATION : POLA MUSEUM ANNEX
POLA Ginza building 3F,
1-7-7, Ginza, chuo-ku,Tokyo
URL : http://www.pola.co.jp/m-annex/
Related event :
live performance by Kouichi Okamoto
April 28, 13:00-13:20/15:00-15:20
LOCATION : POLA MUSEUM ANNEX
Presented by POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC.
http://www.pola.co.jp/
Production & Curation NPO Hexaproject
http://www.icn-global.com/
Okamoto's new creation "musical table" and "lighting chair" are exhibited during in the period.
Musical table :
The musical table installed 504 volumes on the top plate, and there are 504 musical box movements which play only a single sound in the point of the 5-m electric line extended from there. The motor revolving speed of the musical boxes are adjusted by the volume of the table, and the musical boxes play sound at random.
Lighting chair :
They are a chair in which the electric socket plates are embedded, and a chair in which the switch plates are embedded. The electrical cord extended from the plug inserted in the electric socket is to a switch, and the electrical cords are transmitted to brass and copper gas pipes. The lamp of the colander made from pure copper of various sizes illuminates the chairs. The Musical table and the Lighting chair were created by cooperation of POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC.
