Blast Magazine, a French Design, fashion, and culture publication, has featured Soundwalk’s Ulysses’ Syndrome installation at the Shanghai 2010 Expo on their site this week, April 3, 2010. The review, written by Guillaume Fédou, names Ulysses’ Syndrome as “[the most ambitious piece of sound art since Homer's Odyssey, dipping its toes in the China Sea]“.
“[Ulysses continues his trek to the port of Shanghai, mixing the flavors of the Mediterranean with the fruits of the China Sea. A 24-hour work of sound gathering a range of fragments recorded in autumn 2009 between Troy and Ithaca (passing by the Gulf of Naples, Palermo, the Stromboli Volcano and the Eolie Islands, Carthage), Ulysses' Syndrome is likely Soundwalk's most ambitious work since the film Kill the Ego. The fact that it is being presented today, in Shanghai, is no coincidence since it is there the mythology of the twenty-first century is playing out. It is situated in the center of the cosmopolitan city, on Nankin street (the equivalent of the Champs-Elysées) in an ancient Taoist temple named Hong Niao (red bird)
The Ulysses' installation is realized in relation with a series of projects for
Lille 3000 (for which Soundwalk has also created an installation titled
Room Number 8 with the voice of renowned actress Joan Chen in the Saint Sauveur train station reborn as
Hotel Europa). The project was curated by Didier Fusillier, who also headed the
Exit festival at MAC Créteil. [The installation occupies] a freely accessible terrace in the heart of the most passionate city in the world, contrary to the French Pavilion, which one must pay to enter. Amongst the dozens of other pavilions, Ulysses remains proud and free: not much has changed since the days when he left, and then returned to his kingdom in Ithaca]”.
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Thanks to Blast for the great article!
