GALLERY 2
RHYTHM CODE
KENT WILSON
Rhythm Code is an installation that explores the relationship between nature and culture.
Taking a more participatory approach to art making, the work assembles a collective garden of pot plants, each donated by a volunteer, together with a symphonic ensemble of vocal humming, consisting of a tonal note sampled from each volunteer participant. The collective nature of the work is designed to hint at the networked pattern of both the natural environment, as ecosystem, and the cultural environment, as society. Mediated by a technological composition, Rhythm Code asks whether our cultural forms can serve to illuminate a new understanding of nature and whether our engagements with nature can inform our understanding of our current cultural constructions
