Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork Brings The Experience Of Techno Warehouses To The ICA LA
© Provided by ArtNews. Installation view by Jacqueline Kiyomi Gorke. The input to this machine is the energy in the output, 2020; Made in LA 2020: Publishing Exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2020.Inspired by the music of Los Angeles techno warehouses, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gorke has created visceral, site-specific work that plays with the subtleties of sound.
The Into/Loving/Against/Lost In loop installation at the ICA LA Project Room echoes the sound of an exhibition about drummer and artist Milford Graves, who died in 2021. This includes Graves Sound. ICA shows and audiences are prepared for all performances. For example, you can scream in the gallery and Kiyomi Gorke's sound engineering will record it in his installation in the next room.
These sounds are filtered using SuperCollider, the artist's collaboration with Los Angeles-based DJ and producer Ezra Rubin, aka Kingdom. Kingdom and Kiyomi Gork created a rhythmic beat together.
Kiyomi Gorka's installation invites you to walk through a labyrinthine structure of crisp vinyl curtains suspended from a steel frame. Like felt and wool constructions, sound still flows through Graves and Kiyomi Gorka's exhibition gallery, creating a unique sonic experience.
According to touring curator Carolyn Ellen Liu, “You're really interested in your own perception of what you're hearing. Is that what I heard in the outer gallery or is it distorted?
While Kiyomi Gorke's practice has long explored how sound affects bodily movement, this is the artist's first experiment with rhythm.
"Rhythm and rhythm can really take up space," says Kiyomi Gorke. “When you're shot, your body automatically intervenes. This is a great power."
© Courtesy of ArtNews Installation view of Inside You Are Me by Jacqueline Kiyomi Gorke, 2017; At the "Geometry of the present" festival in VAK, Moscow.Walking through Kiyomi Gorka's installation is both a choreographic experience and a more philosophical state. As in the techno warehouses of Los Angeles, the body can engage with the somatic emotions of the created rhythms. However, if visitors want to experience the installation, they can choose where and how to go.
"You can turn left or right, forward or around a corner," explains Kiyomi Gorke. “One of the fun parts is that the maze is clear. You can see everywhere you go, but you're surrounded by that clear plastic panel. So it is sound that is explored. When you turn a corner, the sound changes; Where are you going or where are you going?
The labyrinthine structure—unlike a predetermined path—allows for personal choice and gives a sense of agency to those who traverse it. Although materials absorb a certain amount of sound, differences between sounds can affect how a person processes that sound.
Kiyomi Gorke says, "I made everything very precise so that you could hear the sounds when you were walking towards something, and I played the whole room like that."
As in a club, you can hear the beats of Kiyomi Gork and The Kingdom, but what you hear depends a lot on when you visit the facility. As Graves' videos are posted to the adjacent gallery, various lyrics will be posted as well. And Graves suggests that contestants will always create their own soundtrack.
"Kyomi Gorka's work sits very well between human isolation and their participation in collective experience," says Leo. "There is no clear answer. [Experience] is always and/and.
Finally, like a feedback loop, Kiyomi Gorke raises the question of how we as individuals affect the entire environment.
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