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[UPDATE] May 18 - Sentinel - Iona Interviews Aiko Entrescore
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 		[UPDATE] May 18 - Sentinel - Iona Interviews Aiko Entrescore
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Iona Interviews... Aiko Entrescore
By IONA RODIE

Aiko Entrescore welcomes me into her cluttered studio with a wave and a smile: "Stay right there," she says, "I'll show you how to get through in a moment." The instructions are certainly necessary - the floor of the studio is littered with pieces of glass and metal, some evidently half-finished sculptures, others possibly simply bits of debris. As I watch, Aiko prowls round an object on a plinth in the centre of the studio - it's a sphere. Or is it? As Entrescore works, clouds of colour flicker across the surface of the object. For a moment it seems to become a face, then a slowly-blinking eye, then a revolving umbrella. Is it even a sphere at all? At times it seems oval or even rectangular.

This ambiguity is central to Entrescore's work, as she explains when we finally manage to sit down in a somewhat-less-cluttered part of the studio. "I believe that all things are interconnected, you know, on a deep level. This table, my hand, Ascendancy Point, Captins House, even the Earth - there's a one-ness to everything. That's what I'm trying to show with my work, that everything has parts of everything else in it, you know? My work is an attempt to answer the riddle of everything we see in front of us."

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Entrescore's answers to that "riddle" have certainly brought her a great deal of attention. A protegee of the acclaimed sculptor Randal Tokei, she has been widely exhibited across the city. Her kinetic sculptures, with their moving parts, subtly changing forms and even, in some cases, the ability to communicate with keys, have won her praise from many quarters. The Sentinel's arts correspondent called Entrescore's most recent major exhibition, last year at the Academy Museum, "moving, powerful and constantly surprising." It was, of course, that exhibition which won her a certain amount of notoriety. It was on display on the night the Cube itself was stolen.

"Yeah, that was so silly!" Entrescore comments. "My sculptures had electronic components; the idea was that if you walked past them with your key tuned in to an audio channel, you'd think you heard whispering voices. It was cool - spooky, you know?" Those electronic components brought Entrescore under suspicion from police, though, when the Cube went missing. The sculptures were torn to pieces, in the search for components which might have been used to disable the Academy's security systems, or even to eavesdrop. Was Entrescore upset by the damage to her work? "Sure, of course. To see my work ripped apart like that was devastating. And they kept on interviewing me, questioning all the time. But," she spreads her hands wide, "you move on, you know? You make new work and you leave the old behind."

And Entrescore has done just that. Not only does she have a new exhibition opening at the Restructure Gallery next month, but she's also joined the elite team of puzzle scribes working on Academy Master Kiteway's "Cube retrieval programme". At my mention of the scribe team, she breaks into a broad smile. "Oh that's so much fun! I spend so much time working by myself that it's great to be working in a team - Sente's really brought together an incredibly diverse group of people, with such a range of skills ... it's a pleasure to spend time with them. And what a fantastic project to be working on - communicating with a different world!" And how has she taken to the puzzle form? "Well, of course I was trained at the Academy, so puzzles are part of how I think. I've loved the freedom we have at the Academy - I think you'll see the puzzles becoming an even more integral part of my work."

Certainly from what I saw in her studio, Entrescore's work hasn't lost any of its edge. Some of the pieces have a definite resemblance to the Cube which, she says, is deliberate. "The loss of such an important artefact has implications on all levels of our society. It draws us together, and my work is a response to that." Several open-framed structures suggest places where missing objects may once have been and loss, too, has become an important theme in her recent work. As Entrescore comments: "the job of the artist is to challenge, to startle, but also to show us what we ourselves are thinking - that is what makes art long-lasting and significant. If it speaks to the emotions, the objects, that connect us all together." Given the popularity of her work, Entrescore certainly seems to be achieving that aim.

Aiko Entrescore's new exhibition entitled All Things opens at the Restructure Gallery on June 4 and runs for three months.
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 		Okay, my spec: she's not involved directly with the cube's dissapearance, but her sculpture caused someone to think they were being watched and run somewhere or other, which in turn caused something else to happen - like the security systems going down.

There ya go - wild spec for you Smile

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 		better look out for something happening on june 4th

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JebJoya wrote:
Okay, my spec: she's not involved directly with the cube's dissapearance, but her sculpture caused someone to think they were being watched and run somewhere or other, which in turn caused something else to happen - like the security systems going down.

There ya go - wild spec for you :)

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or... the sculpture detected the thieves presence and the noise alerted security personnel (i.e. fran) which would have foiled the attempt had they not been murderous gits with neuro suppressant devices?

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 		This is interesting.........anyone else stumbled across an application called syzygy? it has 6 source code packages (interesting in itself but this software might not even be related) and one application data package.......it seems to be something related to a virtual computer/pc cluster..could 'the cube' be sofware?
I could be on the wrong track completely, but imagine the possibilities.....a virtual computer that controls all multimedia........

'Syzygy solves several problems: distributed graphics, distributed sound, distributed systems management, distributed data access, and general I/O device management. There are systems out there that do each of these things, but no one system addresses them all.'

am i going crazy? clutching at straws? Smile

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Several open-framed structures suggest places where missing objects may once have been and loss, too, has become an important theme in her recent work.


So.. how many things actually go missing in Perplex City? Seems like we have an avid collector in our midst. Could the pictures in the catacombs hold a clue to what objects are missing and why?

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 		Er.. No Dude. - I think Aiko has created sculptures giving the idea something is missing from them. Nothing actually is missing from them. Its just in the art of the sculpture, like a sculpture of a person with the mid section of the torso gone etc....

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 		I doubt the Syzygy software has anything to do with this, seems to have been updated last 2 years ago. Unless thats a different piece of software than the one you found.

http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/syzygy/

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