Freedom Of Clouds (CGUASS aka Ito & Moe Myat)
Single-channel black and white video with sound
A collaboration with experimental Burmese musician, CGAUSS a.k.a Itö or Win Htut Thawdar, Moe Myat May Zarchi’s Freedom of Clouds is an audiovisual work featuring a sound performance, and informed by Tao-ist notions. Originally intended as an installation with dual channels, in this single-channel, televisual format it features the motif of particles that are audio-reactive, shifting with the soundtrack in imitation of the movement of dust. Footage of buildings shot in Myanmar are digitally glitched, blurring and morphing as the piece progresses to a state of abstraction in tandem with the crescendo of sound, signifying freedom from form and definition - not unlike the notion of Tao, the underlying, unifying principle of the universe. Zarchi remarks, “Everything is made of atoms. Billions of atoms combine to form visible structures. Structures make identity. Identity forms a separation between everything. Especially in an urban place, where the grittiness of concrete buildings overwhelms the atmosphere, the presence of fluidity gets lost in our daily lives. As with the flow of nature, everything is metamorphosis. The science of nature and the acceptance of it is termed Tao in eastern philosophy. However, stuck in closed doors in cells, we lose connection with one another.”
Exhibited at
Lights from the Underground at Ecologocial Futurism (Center for Research and Education in Arts & Media - CREAM), UK (2022)
Lights from the Underground (3-ACT), Myanmar (2022)
Abstraction of Breathing 2021 Dvd Magazine (SOCA & AURA, 2021)
https://aura-asia-art-project.com/en/artists/matter-collective-ito-moe-myat-artist-interview-abstraction-of-breathing/?fbclid=IwAR071n-KNJ55ciYYBsdDguDJnhElK5l8pFSzD9YGvaEPXmZbAv6sPuxTryE
Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize Moving Image Finalist (2021)
https://nextgenerationartprize.singaporeartsclub.com/finalist/myo-myat-may-zarchi/
:/Screensaver_ Virtual Art Exhibition (MATTER audiovisuallab, 2021)
Institut Francais de Birmanie 60th Anniversary (2021)
