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Your personal invitation to Platform21 = Jamming
Dear friends and participants of Platform21,
You might not know yet, but Platform21 is going to close its doors. Our incubation period has ended and we would like to celebrate our pioneering work of the last three years together with you!
How? By building a breakfast machine in our exhibition space over eight days under the code name of Platform21 = Jamming. It will be our biggest co-creation project, so please bring your own knowledge, technique, wishes and ideas. All this will be under the supervision of artist inventors Yuri Suzuki and Masa Kimura.
Do find Yuri Suzuki’s personal invitation in the video below.
Please check your diary and let us know if and when you would like to . For one hour, one day or one week. That is up to you. When? From 16 September to 24 September.
Breakfast served: if we succeed, we will serve all-day breakfasts on 25 and 26 September.
It is needless to say that we would love to work with you all one more time.
Let’s Jam!
Joanna, Dewi, Moetoesingi, Arne
PS Although Platform21 will close, its spirit and way of working will be continued in new projects of which we will keep you posted.
Sketch of the breakfast machine by Masa Kimura
About Yuri Suzuki
Yuri Suzuki (Tokyo, 1980) takes his inspiration from old and new experiences. Growing up in Tokyo, he watched a lot of television. He collected his childhood impressions from TV, videos and LPs, and this collection still serves as a valuable source of inspiration today.
He cites Herbie Hancock’s ‘Rockit’ video and Alexander Calder’s ‘Calder’s Circus’as his main influences. These works got him interested in kinetic mechanisms, electronic music and technological art.
He saw 'Calder's Circus' when he was just three years old when his parents took him to the Whitney Museum in New York. It was this work that sparked an interest in kinetic mechanisms and mechanical entertainment. Herbie Hancock’s RockIt videoclip was his first encounter with electronic music and technological art and it still offers valuable inspiration to this day.
Suzuki’s work poses questions about the relationship between people and sound, and how music and sound influence the human brain. Although infused with humor, wit and entertainment elements, Suzuki makes sure to add a hidden element of criticism on current society in both his products and objects.
For Platform21 = Jamming, Yuri Suzuki reaches back to an old source of inspiration: television and film. Inspired by films like Pee Wee’s Great Adventure, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Back to the Future and Flubber, he came up with the idea of the breakfast machine. Not only does such a machine always provide a story with a spectacular beginning, but Suzuki also sees breakfast as a symbol of a new beginning for Platform21.
He says his goal in his design work is for people to sympathize with it and to share in his experience. In jointly building the breakfast machine he might just succeed in achieving this!
Yuri's sonic art works have been exhibited around the world. He currently teaches in the Design Products Department at the Royal College of Art in London, where he also has his own studio.
About Masa Kimura
Masa Kimura (Tokyo, 1981) graduated from Tama Art University in Tokyo, where he lives and works. He calls himself a ‘peace robot artist’: in his work he searches for peaceful ways of using robot technology.
