Simple and unknown sensations
Technology and orginality recalls natures power to awaken new perceptions

Keiichi Tanaka's work frequently inspires classification as futuristic or techno, which is comprehensible. His pieces are, without a doubt meticulously planned works of engineering which use geiger counters, lasers, neon lights, computers, samplers, and electronic components, all of which are identified with advanced technology. Tanaka, as well, looks for elements that although constantly present in everyday life, seem inaccessible to mere mortals. And finally, the terminology used in his work inspire s identification with the distant worlds of a scientists imagination.

But soon it's possible to conclude that this collection of futuristic and technological elements has as its aim to capture pure and spontaneous manifestations that exist in nature and permit them to provoke simple sensations and feelings, some of whic h have been sleeping and ignored in our subconscious. Tanaka works with light, nature and time, using a "scientific" creativity to explore and investigate these elements.

Tanaka has come to 11th Videobrasil to exhibit his Luminous Cosmic Ray - a sequence of what he presented at the Sao Paulo Bienal in 1991. He uses geiger counters to capture cosmic rays and radiation produced in space or on earth which he feels are a part of the universes, or galaxies manifestations - as for example, the solar winds. The impulses captured by his geiger counter are transformed into light beams, laser rays and sound effects, creating a dynamic ever-changing, unique whole - generating a complicity between the observer, the artist, nature and the specific moment, and turning each element into a participant of the composition. "My work tries to capture time, which is constantly passing. My intention is to remember the existence of senses besides the organic ones".

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