3D Concept Visualization
Description
Global environments are changing with unprecedented intensity. As humans, we must find ways to adapt our perceptive faculties to ever new realities. But how do we make sense of emotional responses to changes that are too complex to articulate verbally? Our environments are not changing only in blatant ways, but in creeping, insidious deviations from intuitively learnt and embodied histories.
I created Heart of a Glacier with a sense of longing for post-human integration of legal-scientific vocabularies with ancient embodied knowledges. A longing, as Kyriaki Goni puts it, to develop “techno-shamanic networks of resilience and care”, for a better, more sustainable collective future.
Our environmental knowledges are harboured as much in positivist observations as in the affective realm of our subtle bodily experiences. Yet we often neglect the latter, dismissing them as irrational figments of an unengaged mind. Through the aesthetics of a dreamscape ambience, Heart of a Glacier invites us to re-connect with our bodily reasoning.
Video and sound recordings made 30 metres deep within the receding Morteratsch Glacier (CH) create a slow-evolving, meditative space, inviting us to attune to the textures of a remote, critically endangered water world. To embrace an introspective moment of more-than-human consciousness.
Spatial Audio Residency
During a 12-month residency with Amoenus, I developed a 20-channel spatial audio rendition of the installation. The soundscape forms a spacious tapestry of interconnections centred around the body of the listener. It employs reverb responses recorded in glacier caves on Svalbard by a team led by Professor Pawel Malecki (Department of Mechanics and Vibroacoustics AGH, Kraków University of Science and Technology). For more information about the reverb recordings, please click here.
Awards
- MUSE Digital Art Award – Finalist
- “The Energy for Tomorrow” group show at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, Italy (11/2023)
- LOM Audio LOM+you programme
Past Shows:
Fragile Ecologies, London (UK) (LSE Law / TBA21 Academy )
Film screening and discussion organised by Marie Petersmann (LSE Law School) and Maria Christina Achilleoude (LSE LLM student), in the presence of curator María Montero Sierra (Head of Program at TBA21–Academy) and artist Leonard Maassen.
Works shown:
– Susan Schuppli, ‘Cold Rights’ (2022)
– Leonard Maassen, ‘Heart of Glacier’ (2023)
– pantea, ‘⚪’ (2022)
– Inhabitants (Mariana Silva & Pedro Neves Marques), ‘What Is Deep Sea Mining? (2018-22)
Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (IT). November 2023.
Finalist group show of the MUSE Digital Art Award, entitled “The Energy for Tomorrow”.
The Crypt Gallery, London. May 2023.
A/V installation loop, running time 8’49
Polyphonic group show at The Crypt Gallery, London, curated by Lilyan Cheng (CRiSAP) and Juice Shuting (LCC). Featuring a small number of A/V works by different artists, the exhibition turned the gallery space into an area of overlapping resonating bodies that viewers could walk around.
Short video, running time 01:38
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