P E R M A F R O S T
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audiovisual installation for several frozen pieces of soil,
one prepared sensor platform, prepared cone speakers
multichannel sound system, self developed software.
ENCAC - (European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation) 2017 production award ,
EDIGMA Semibreve award 2017
This installation focus on the geologic concept of Permafrost, a layer of frozen sediment, rock and soil that covers parts of the northern hemisphere. Within this layer, several organisms, methane and bacteria have been dormant for thousands of years, but with the rapidly warming Arctic, several layers are now being exposed, creating a biological feedback.
In this project, freezing is a method for “holding” mater in time, a representation of a clock, where several blocks of frozen soil are suspended in the space. As fragmentation begins, detritus unpredictably fall, crashing into a structure prepared with microphones, sensors and speaker cones. This platform works as a receptive sonic field, using code data to interplay with the impact, time and displacement of the defrosted earth. As the piece evolves, matter accumulates generating not only a sculptural disposition, but unpredictable interactions with the speakers, their oscillations and spatial location, confronting the "time" of geological processes with the acceleration of digital technology.
Collaboration with artist Adam Basanta.
In this project, freezing is a method for “holding” mater in time, a representation of a clock, where several blocks of frozen soil are suspended in the space. As fragmentation begins, detritus unpredictably fall, crashing into a structure prepared with microphones, sensors and speaker cones. This platform works as a receptive sonic field, using code data to interplay with the impact, time and displacement of the defrosted earth. As the piece evolves, matter accumulates generating not only a sculptural disposition, but unpredictable interactions with the speakers, their oscillations and spatial location, confronting the "time" of geological processes with the acceleration of digital technology.
Collaboration with artist Adam Basanta.