contribution # 2 | LIGHTS FLICKERING – as a documentation of pause | performance: mei-yi lee & nishiko
pause is a light installation of fluorescent lights which flicker randomly and endlessly. _the first version of the work was presented in a gym hall at delta ateliers in the hague in 2010, the second in a former office room during re:rotterdam, representing walden affairs in 2012. _they are the starting point of the work in ocw. _ever since nishiko started making installations, she has been occupied with the question how to best document installation artwork. _especially for pause, showing the installation from a purely documentary point of view in a white cube felt totally inadequate, because the most important part of the work – the experience – is completely lost. _in order to regain the experience in a form that allows itself to be stored, she invited the taiwanese percussionist mei-yi lee to re-enact the light installation with her in sound. _for the work lights flickering, nishiko and mei-yi chose sixteen objects which resembled the flickering lights: a güiro, a copper cup, a frog rasp, a stone, a piece of wood, a copper bowl, a castanet, two pieces of broken tiles, a toy tambourine, a bamboo cracker, a rattle, a wooden bar, a toy, an angle bracket and two pieces of threaded rod to play the objects
lights flickering was presented in marres, maastricht, in 2014. _mei-yi’s father ching-wen li also joined in the opening performance