This was a show to make the head spin. In some ways, this was to be expected; the art of Ryoji Ikeda is quite an extreme audio-visual event. The sounds he uses go right to the very limits of human perception, while the images are of starkest black and white. Sections of seeming quiet and inactivity slam into thunderously loud strobe-lit passages which contain far too much for the brain to comprehend. In a sense, this is an art installation with rock show dynamics, which probably explains the excitement engendered in some members of the Barbican crowd, who whooped deliriously as Ikeda took us on this extraordinary journey which ultimately touched on concepts so grand they were dizzying. Read the rest of this review over at The Liminal.
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