The Location | June 29th – October 17th 2005

Official text about the D-Day exhibition at the Pompidou Centre, Paris
(June 29th – October 17th 2005):

The D-Day exhibition is a reflection on contemporary design values and their anthropological and aesthetic challenges, through slides designed ex profeso for the exhibition and a selection of pre-existing projects. It is a narrative and sensory collection that questions the current scope of design, the relationship with and experience of contact with an object, the vanishing points of the imagination and an object’s power of seduction, as well as the very newest in digital graphic design that triggers new emotions.

JIN was part of the D-Day exhibition with their group installation “Five Elements”: Five groups of visual artists and musicians (JIN, Pfadfinderei, François Chalet, Bowling Club, Skolz Kolgen) each designed a 5.1 dolby surround audio-visual piece which consisted of five connected videos each displayed on five screens arranged in a semi-circle. JIN chose the element “Water” and created a highly experimental piece which was bought by the Centre Pompidou for their permanent collection in 2007.

The Five Elements

Simulation of JIN’s audio-visual piece “Water”, 2005 / 3600 x 565 pixels / Dolby Surround 5.1

Uleshka’s visuals in the very heavy D-Day catalogue (were also printed on the official D-Day poster)

List of audio-visual teams participating along with JIN

The Five Elements | Trailor

« The Five Elements » from Label Dalbin on Vimeo.

Germany, Japan, France, Switzerland, Canada / 2005 / video / 15’ / color
Quicktime file / 3600 x 565 pixels / Dolby Surround 5.1

Earth by Pfadfinderei & Modeselektor (Berlin, Germany)
Water by JIN (Tokyo, Japan)
Fire by Bowling Club & Remote (Paris, France)
Air by François Chalet & Seelenluft (Zurich, Switzerland)
Ether by Skolz Kolgen (Montréal, Canada)

Permanent Collection: Centre Pompidou MNAM-CCI