The art of sleep
2006
Audiovisual Media
Μονοκάναλο βίντεο
Flash animation, original soundtrack
Duration: 18’45’’
Inv. No. 641/09
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries is an artistic collaboration of two artists who live and work in Seoul: Marc Voge is an American poet while Young-Hae Chang is a Korean visual artist. They are both active in the field of internet art, one of their main contributions being the creation of animations —realized with Adobe Flash— which bring together spoken language, text, and music. Their digital narratives unfold by means of a series of logical and absurd associations, with their main characteristics being witty humour, subtle irony, and fierce poetry. Their visual narratives literally flash on the screen, as Monaco font uppercase letters fill it up entirely, while the jazz or electronic tunes the duo either pick or compose by themselves are synchronized with the text, producing an audio-visual choreography. Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries are online writers, new media artists, electronic music composers, and digital visual poets who create works of sheer rhythmic intensity that surprise, mesmerize, and totally grip the audience. The Museum has in its permanent collection two of their works: The Art of Sleep, a single-channel flash animation, in which an insomnia-afflicted narrator lampoons the art world, and the triptych Close Your Eyes, which demonstrates the Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries’ ability to engage themselves in a sort of cultural criticism that is forceful and astute.
Daphne Vitali, ENTER EMST: Collection and history, A short guide, 2020