Dr. Raphael Jay Adjani F.R.S.A
Completed PhD - Technology, Art, and Being: an ontological investigation, with reference to the rock cut edifices of Ellora, Tadao Ando’s Water Temple, and contemporary technological practice
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iPak – 10, 000 songs, 10,000 images 10,000 abuses, 2008
Courtesy and © the artist
My research and art work concerns not the art object primarily but the potential for creation of what might be described as a ‘sublime’ world that manifests in an ephemeral space between an art object and a spectator’s experiencing of it, where art works come into being through the ‘play’ of others. My research therefore concerns how we inter-act socially, with the world around us. I create little worlds - special spaces or places - to contact our playful nature, our imagination, and our feelings about the significance and the sacredness of our lives and our relationships, with our relationship with others as much as with objects and with ourselves.
My work relates to how we may connect with and think about Nature. It re-conceives classical Buddhist and Tantric art in contemporary form; elicits notions of daily life as art; and stimulates particular ecological dynamics of the human being in relation to environment. This art practice is trans-disciplinary, intermedia, and single form, spanning disciplines of: internet art, video art, combined media installation, sculpture, film, site-specific art, environmental art, performance/live art, design, architecture, sound art, dance, theatre, creative writing.
Latest works include: radio play, shown at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney and other galleries in 2007; laal shaari – a collaboration with Amina Khayyam – presented at the Royal Opera House, London in 2007; iPak – 10, 000 songs, 10,000 images 10,000 abuses, an internet art work commissioned by American gallery Turbulence (2008); zen gardens without the ‘zen’, an ongoing series of installations in diverse international locations.
Links
- Artist's website
- iPak - 10,000 songs, 10,000 images, 10,000 abuses
- Raphael Adjani
- 8 Technology
