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Din; Ding Dang Dong (1989 - ) |
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| Permanent Installation | ||
| Location: Seoul Olympic Park, South Korea | ||
| Sculpture by Nigel Helyer |
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| URL: The home page for this entity is located at http://www.sonicobjects.com/DDDD.html | |
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Additional Information Nigel Helyer's Din; Ding Dang Dong was located at Seoul Olympic Park, South Korea in 1989. This large public sculpture aimed to be more than a physical object, being conceived as a site-specific work for Korea, a nation in a state of transition. The artist responded to this changing culture by creating large steel and granite forms intended to challenge a range of senses, both physical and psychological. Helyer describes his inspiration for the work: "Din: Ding-Dang-Dong" is squarely rooted upon the twin themes - Transition and Metaphor. The central "Crucible/Bell" elements of the work are iconographically keyed to both the historical Korean tradition of the "heaven Bell", directly invoking their resonant spiritual connotations. Simultaneously they are direct descendants of William Blake's "dark satanic mills" - the Bessemer converters and reverbatory furnaces of heavy industry, an epoch, which ironically is slowly expiring in the West, only to be reborn in Asia!" His choice of the bell image, a recurrent image and sound in Helyer's work takes on a different meaning in this context. Sonically, he sums up the work this way: "The site presents a range of sonic capacities which are latent; those who wish to engage the work physically are invited to summon up a series of tones, but beyond the immediate presence of these notes lie the pure harmonics of the ancient bells resonating in company with the reverberations of the steel works - the metaphor re-orders history and implodes the contradictory." (Catalogue "Olympiade des Arts", April 1988) | |
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Published by The University of Melbourne Comments, questions, corrections and additions: i.mott@unimelb.edu.au Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 18 January 2007 http://www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au/web/biogs/P000550b.htm |
