Naomi Kashiwagi
&
Black
Lodge
…are Manchester based Artists who have collaborated for startrunning to perform a unique sound installation using wind-up gramophones to play 78rpm shellac records. The records themselves have been physically altered by Black Lodge whose artistic practice is piled high with electronic innards. Kashiwagi is an artist who transforms the utilitarian and conceptual functions of everyday technologies and phenomena. She also challenges the inter-relationships and boundaries between art, music and language. When collaborating they rejoice in the pop and crackle of all that is dusty and obsolete, the long dead snarl of Italian singers, the field hollers of blind and Black America to coax new sounds from old machines that help the shellac tell its own story. With no batteries required the small gestures and ritualized movements they deliver embodies the uneasy relationship between the old and the new placing the viewer in the role of intruder and voyeur.
Naomi Kashiwagi & Black Lodge