Ujino Muneteru reveals a part of society through his use of popular culture, answering to the pop music of '70s in his oeuvre. He uses a homogeneous mish of materials that are commonplace - electrical sockets, junk, used vinyl discs, and actuators - to recreate new musical instruments or installations. His new project, Astrok(2008), is a collection of second-hand materials found in Seoul that are arranged around a torn, dilapidated car. Endlessly rotating, shedding all pretenses of meaning, and wildly and noisily gyrating, this piece represents ironically our society of consumption and the dream of modernity accompanied by a progressive amnesia. In our era of new technology, the brilliant metamorphose of everyday objects into music would bring people to ecstasy.
