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Satellites
[https://www.nonotak.com/
Nonotak] is a creative duo founded by former illustrator Noemi Schipfer and former architect-musician Takami Nakamoto that was conceived in 2012. Nonotak work with light & sound installations and performance pieces to create ethereal, immersive and dreamlike environments which are built to envelope, challenge and stagger the viewer capitalising on Nakamoto’s approach to space, light & sound and Schipfer’s experience with kinetic visual and complex, geometric illustrations. This results in a duo who creates pieces that put together light, sound and space in order to provide the audience a unique visual and sensitive experience. The large range of projects Nonotak are capable of designing and producing allowed them to experiment in many different fields of arts: Architecture, Music, Fine Arts, Digital Arts, Theatre, Cinema, Dance, Design and Fashion. Sound and visual contents are all produced inhouse, including their documentative contents that are available online as a visual preview of their work. Nonotak’s aesthetic is inspired by minimal architecture and optical art.
Weaving together the graceful interplay of motion and geometry, vibrant lights will trace infinite circles, creating hypnotic waves that transcend time and space.
Satellites is a new commission by the internationally acclaimed studio Nonotak, set within the vast and desolate Elders Woolstores, which will be exclusively open for the Biennale for the first time in over 30 years.
An immersive light and sound experience, Satellites will see bespoke lighting unit engage in a captivating dance, moving in a battle-like rhythm that is synchronised to a soundscape. Their elegant motions create a mesmerising spectacle, viewers will be engaged in a timeless performance. At the heart of Satellites lies the exploration of duality, the sense of opposing forces harmoniously coexisting.
This is a captivating, not to be missed, kinetic light sculpture and three-dimensional experience, bringing to life the secret interior of one of Fremantle’s most iconic buildings.
Please note: the Elders Woolstores has remained vacant for 30 years, and as such has not received the maintenance and repairs that it deserves. We’ve done everything we can to minimise any risks to attendees, but we ask that you please read our terms and conditions outlined below.
Roel Loopers' review:
What can one say? I expected a lot, but had no idea what to expect, of the preview of Satellites by the Nonotak Studio, in the Elders Woolstores this afternoon.
It is part of the Fremantle Biennale 2023, and I have liked most of what the Biennale has offered us the last few years.
Art appreciation is very personal, so let me start with stating that the former Freo Mayor Brad Pettitt MLC expressed on Facebook that he really liked what he watched.
As for me, I found it repetitive, uninspiring and a bit boring. Put a smoke machine in a heritage building, add very loud music, and show monotonous movements of lights, that did not even change colour. Nah, sorry, not for me. Disappointing.
But I am absolutely convinced that the Fremantle Biennale 2023 will have many outstanding and exceptional shows and performances. Can’t wait to explore them.
Roel Loopers
References and Links
Delphine Jamet's video of the show in YouTube.
Photographs above of the preview, 3 November 2023, are courtesy of Roel Loopers.
Text from the Biennale program website.
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