7th August - 15th August 2021,
Opening 7th August 6pm-10pm
ANAGRA Tokyo
1 Chome−8−9, Hirakawachō, Chiyoda City, Hirakawachō,
102-0093 Tokyo, Japan
In Tokyo, where sound disturbance is often regarded as an issue and may be fined for “disturbing the peace”, it is not uncommon for spaces to be located underground.
At ANAGRA, named after the gallery’s B1 location one step down from street level, it was only natural for artist Charli Tapp to look into how to move deeper when invited to produce an installation piece for the space.
Inside the gallery, a trap door on the floor revealed a technical basement for the already underground gallery. There, trapped between 4 moist concrete walls, and a 1m56 high ceiling, the viewers could access the bunker via a ladder leading to Tapp’s installation.
Lit by a wall panel reminiscent of above-ground advertising boards featuring the inscription -inf dB (effectively meaning silence in audio terms) a deafening rumble of bass vortex escapes from a stack of flight-cases packed with spray foam, while black balls of rubber autonomously roll around the floor, bouncing on the viewer's feet.
The bunker feels safe from the outside world yet paradoxically incredibly hostile to remain in.
The immersive installation, B1(Ultra)safe, explores the extent and harshness of safety and protection, to the point that they are not sustainable.
Going below ground is a survival mechanism. Animals use it to find safe haven, build nests, retreat while waiting for better days. Covering up under a blanket, burying a time capsule in the lawn, prepping a RC bunker to escape the imminent doom, getting a bit more use out of a shallow townhouse plot of land, or making sure the nightclub won’t trigger the neighbors’ anger. B1 is a survival mode, a reflex when faced with adverse circumstances, a toolkit for extreme circumstances. B1 rings as a code name, operatives hidden in plain sight would know what protocole to execute when the procedure begins.
When sheltered for long enough, the shelter would become the backdrop for a new state of being rather than a transitory housing.
I recall of this French Counter Strike 1.6 champion who would defeat his opponents with his CRT monitor flipped upside down.
In 1897, George Stratton published ‘Vision Without Inversion of the Retinal Image,’ about his experiences with a pair of glasses which inverted the world. His experiment claims that after wearing image inverting glasses for a couple of days, his brain adapted to the new reality and re-flipped the world facing his eyes, effectively perceiving images the right way around again.
Adaptivity finds its way into the tiniest crevices, and what has been a shelter for too long starts to feel like a home. A home where the parents are out and left us without a babysitter. A home hidden under the bed, a home in the empty appartement next door to which a pathway was discovered behind a communicating bathroom mirror cabinet. A space were a variant of the 1F-world can be played out, safe, unobserved, undisturbed.
Reinforced Concrete has a R-value of 15. On its own, it’s highly insufficient when considering the need for adequate isolation.
In order to create performant soundproofing, coupling it with mass-variation assembly is a necessary methodology. Breaking, or at the very least disturbing, the pathway of frequencies, can be achieved by a series of protocoles. Resilient-channels are placed as an over-framing to which the subsequent assembly can be suspended. Mass-loaded vinyl renders the habitat dense while providing undiscontinued sealing. Fiberglass batts are housed within the sub-framing, while a double layer of un-superposed-seams gypsum board, spaced by damping compound, provides constant mass. The floor is decoupled through a floating assembly relying on rubber suspensions, and the ceiling is equally duplicated.
Ultimately, a decoupled room within a room is created, to which mass loading strategy is applied. Effectively, dB transmission can be reduced, if not suppressed, providing the enclosure with true
isolation. While freedom might have meant the Great-Outdoors for generations prior, it equally qualifies as Deep-Cut Isolation for city-resilient beings. B1 (ultra) safe exists, co-exists, and develops out of sight, free from constraints, unlimited, untethered, unbound, everywhere; a soft yet constant vibration under our feet.
It’s not about resilience anymore. It’s about thriving.
When sheltered for long enough, the shelter would become the backdrop for a new state of being rather than a transitory housing.
I recall of this French Counter Strike 1.6 champion who would defeat his opponents with his CRT monitor flipped upside down.
In 1897, George Stratton published ‘Vision Without Inversion of the Retinal Image,’ about his experiences with a pair of glasses which inverted the world. His experiment claims that after wearing image inverting glasses for a couple of days, his brain adapted to the new reality and re-flipped the world facing his eyes, effectively perceiving images the right way around again.
Adaptivity finds its way into the tiniest crevices, and what has been a shelter for too long starts to feel like a home. A home where the parents are out and left us without a babysitter. A home hidden under the bed, a home in the empty appartement next door to which a pathway was discovered behind a communicating bathroom mirror cabinet. A space were a variant of the 1F-world can be played out, safe, unobserved, undisturbed.
Reinforced Concrete has a R-value of 15. On its own, it’s highly insufficient when considering the need for adequate isolation.
In order to create performant soundproofing, coupling it with mass-variation assembly is a necessary methodology. Breaking, or at the very least disturbing, the pathway of frequencies, can be achieved by a series of protocoles. Resilient-channels are placed as an over-framing to which the subsequent assembly can be suspended. Mass-loaded vinyl renders the habitat dense while providing undiscontinued sealing. Fiberglass batts are housed within the sub-framing, while a double layer of un-superposed-seams gypsum board, spaced by damping compound, provides constant mass. The floor is decoupled through a floating assembly relying on rubber suspensions, and the ceiling is equally duplicated.
Ultimately, a decoupled room within a room is created, to which mass loading strategy is applied. Effectively, dB transmission can be reduced, if not suppressed, providing the enclosure with true
isolation. While freedom might have meant the Great-Outdoors for generations prior, it equally qualifies as Deep-Cut Isolation for city-resilient beings. B1 (ultra) safe exists, co-exists, and develops out of sight, free from constraints, unlimited, untethered, unbound, everywhere; a soft yet constant vibration under our feet.
It’s not about resilience anymore. It’s about thriving.
十分に長い間身を置いたとき、その避難場所は一時的な住居ではなく「新しい状態」のための環境に変 わる。 フランスのカウンターストライク1.6のチャンピオンが、ブラウン管ディスプレイを上下逆さまにしてもなお対 戦相手を倒したことを思い出す。
「1897年、知覚心理学者のジョージ・ストラットンは、目に映るものを反転させる逆転メガネを使った彼の 経験について、「網膜像の逆転のない視覚」を発表しました。彼の実験によると、彼の脳は、逆転メガネを 数日間着用した後に新しい現実に適応し、彼の知覚した世界を再反転させ、その結果、世界を正しい方 向で認識するに至ったそうです。」
適応力は、どんなに小さな隙間でも探し出し、浸透する。擁壁に生える草花のように。避難場所に長く居 続ければ、そこを我が家のように感じ始めるのだ。両親がベビーシッターなしで私たちを残し外出した「我 が家」、ベッドの下に隠された「我が家」、アパートの洗面所の鏡の裏に発見した秘密の通路でつながっ ている隣の空き部屋の中にある「我が家」。
それは、「1F世界」の変異が繰り広げられ、安全で、観察されず、邪魔されない空間。
「鉄筋コンクリート壁の音響透過クラスは55です。適切な遮断の必要性を考慮すると、鉄筋コンクリートだ けでは全く不十分です。高性能の防音を作り出すために、密度の違う素材を組み合わせることは、必要 な方法論です。周波数の経路を遮る、でなければ少なくともそれを妨害する、ということは、一連のプロト コルによって達成することができます。遮音金物が、後続の部材を設置する骨組みとして配置されます。 面密度の高い遮音シートは、切れ目のない密閉空間を提供しながら、部屋の密度を高めます。間柱用グ ラスウールが補助骨組み内に格納され、静音化コンパウンドによって間隔が保たれた石膏ボードは、継 ぎ目が重ならないように二重に設置され、一定の質量を提供します。床はゴム製のサスペンションに頼っ た浮き床構造によって遮断され、天井も同様に二重構造となります。このようにして、1つの部屋の中に、 質量負荷戦略が適用され遮断されたもう1つの部屋が作成されます。事実上、音の伝搬は抑制され、さ もなくば低減でき、真に遮断された囲いが提供されます。」
何世代も前の人々にとって、「自由」とは「大自然」を意味していたかもしれないが、都市を生き抜く者たち にとって「極端に遮断されること」は同様に「自由」を意味する。
「B1 (ultra) safe」は、存在し、共存し、見えないところで発展し、制約から自由で、制限が無く、拘束され ず、開かれている、どこにでも;それは足元の柔らかい一定の振動。
もはやこれは「生存」についてではなくなった。これは「繁栄」についてである。