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Tafaa - Random activity (​.​.​.​)

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    Artist: Various Artists
    Album: Tafaa - Random activity of the work of art, escalates an extension of accepted (unproductive) concepts of art, nature and society
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    Cat.No: CHI029
    Master: John Hannon
    Artwork: Chloé Delarue
    Release Date: 16/07/2021

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Artist: Various Artists
Album: Tafaa - Random activity of the work of art, escalates an extension of accepted (unproductive) concepts of art, nature and society
Format: Digital / Vinyl
Cat.No: CHI029
Master: John Hannon
Artwork: Chloé Delarue
Release Date: 16/07/2021


'Tafaa - Random activity of the work of art, escalates an extension of accepted (unproductive) concepts of art, nature and society' is a sound editing project led by Chloé Delarue, a visual artist based in Geneva (ch) in collaboration with Adeena Mey, a curator, art critic, managing editor of the magazine Afterall (Central St Martins, London, UK) and researcher/teacher at Ecal (Lausanne, ch).

Together, they gathered sound artists Jaeho Hwang, Lafidki of the Chinabot label and the performer-composer Seth Ayyaz in a desire to bring together horizons of thoughts with a singular tonality in resonance with the TAFAA* cycle. The release is a continuation of the deployment of Chloé Delarue's solo show - TAFAA - THE CENTURY OF THE SNITCH, which took place at the Villa du Parc - Contemporary art center in Annemasse (fr).

The four compositions resulting from this meeting are materialized in a hybrid compilation.
Each of the tracks, affected by the aesthetic spectrum of TAFAA - THE CENTURY OF THE SNITCH, results from unique paths that each sound artist builds in their own works. This compilation released in the exhibition space and in its vinyl form, was infused under this particular atmosphere with the aura of sodium, as an echo of the previous opus TAFAA - ACID RAVE. The title evokes territories in wasteland and multitude of theaters of an urbanity that has become tropical for one night. 

For Chloé Delarue, the environment produced under TAFAA - THE CENTURY OF THE SNITCH and its aesthetic feeling is linked with the dissemination of these four tracks. As she says, it becomes “like the deep trance of a noise invisible to oneself but that we perceive thanks to the questioning of its own imperception, the work no longer looks at itself, it injects itself.”

Moult and Dystopia by Jaeho Hwang, Pandæmonium CCTV by Lafidki in collaboration with Ayankoko and Pisitakun (from Chinabot) and Apophenic studies | stochastic iqaat by Seth Ayyaz thus bring out, through their sound characteristics, a powerful emotional expanse driven by their glimpse of the conceptual reconfigurations of a world increasingly accessible through its ersatz.


The vinyl title TAFAA - Random Activity (...) is borrowed from Gustav Metzger taken from an extract from his Manifesto On random activity in material / transforming works of art in July 30, 1964.


Chloé Delarue constitutes what she calls environments under the influence of the TAFAA perception system, an acronym for Toward A Fully Automated Appearance.
TAFAA is a conceptual organ that she builds as a cognitive outgrowth allowing her access to the reasoning that feeds her work. It is under this name, indexed by a number or a subtitle, that each occurrence of her work has been presented since 2015.
Thus, she probes the ambiguous relations that our society maintains with its multitudes of transfigurations, real or simulated, at the time of permanent interconnections and raises questions relating to changes in perceptions and cognitive transformations of our beings under the visible and invisible authority of cosmotechnics.

About the artists


Jaeho Hwang is a South Korean musician and visual artist based in London. He is the author of two titles from a first collaboration with Chloé Delarue during her exhibition TAFAA - # 30 at La Salle de Bains, Lyon (fr) and performed in a live set at Sonic (Lyon, fr). Here, two new variations have been produced.

Saphy Vong alias Lafidki is a Cambodian sound and visual artist based in London and founder of Chinabot.

Ayankoko is the name of the solo musical of Franco-Laotian multi-instrumentalist and composer David Somphrachanh Vilayleck.

Pisitakun Kuntalang is a multidisciplinary artist and producer from Thailand.

Chinabot is a platform and a collective whose work aims to produce a new discourse around Asian music.

Seth Ayyaz is a London-based composer, sound artist, theorist and psychiatrist.

Chloé Delarue and Adeena May have already worked together, notably on the group exhibition Neo Geography I & II (Neuchâtel, ch and Seoul, kr) where Adeena Mey was curator with Kyung Roh Banwart and where Chloé Delarue produced the sequence TAFAA - SO O AM (2017), and more recently with the text Positive Feedback. On Chloé Delarue’s TAFAA was written by Adeena Mey for her first monograph published by Periferia editions in the collection Cahiers d’Artistes - Pro Helvetia.

The vinyl was produced by la Villa du Parc - Contemporary art center (fr) and distributed by Chinabot and Villa du Parc - Contemporary art center.

villaduparc.org/en/expositions/tafaa-the-century-of-the-snitch-chloe-delarue/

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released July 16, 2021

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