Gandom Akbari

Wild Thyme Music #3 – A Sonic Interaction In 2004, musicologist Helga de la Motte Haber told me about composer Rolf Julius’ idea for a sound installation next to a highway that would make you forget the sound of traffic. The idea of such an ‘acoustic hole’, as she called it, has fascinated me ever…

In the dim silence of an abandoned building, The Visitors emerge through augmented reality, fragmented sculptures floating where walls once held memory. Their forms, stitched from digital echoes and recycled matter, shimmer against the cracked concrete, observing without eyes. As you move through the space, their presence shifts with you, not haunting, but remembering. https://openar.art/a/7v7CsgLRGqffJt03…

Artificial Jellyfish Artificial Jellyfish is a series of objects designed to drift in thewater or sit elsewhere on the ground. The chosen design references onone hand a poignant symbol of the beauty and fragility of our oceans andon the other reminds us of plastic contaminants. While drifting inwaters or sitting elsewhere on the ground, the…

The room invites you with ample seating. Images are pasted over a history of graphical expressions: a panda, Norman Fell (again and again), lewd papayas, Don Knotts (too much, but why resist?), a monkey wearing a cowboy hat, chihuahuas, more lewd papayas, eggs, eggs, eggs (what a luxury!!). In the frame of a window: a…