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ON RANDOM WALKS
8 bass speakers, brass plates, bead chains, 3 drawings,
ball point pen on paper, 33 x 52 cm
Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels
29.06. - 10.09.2017
KIKK Festival of Digital and Creative Cultures, Namur
01.-04.11.2018
La Semaine du Son 2022, MIM Brussels, 07.-13-03.2022
A production of Overtoon with the support of the
Flemisch Community
The installation On Random Walks revolves around
the phenomenon of knots in vibrated granular chains and
examines how knots contribute to the understanding of
space and movement. In physics, granular chains are used
as a model to study the behavior of string-like objects
such as DNA, RNA or polymer macro-molecules that often
become entangled.
An array of brass plates is set into vibration at
infrasonic frequencies, diffused by sub woofers. A bead
chain is placed in the center of each plate. Excited by
very low, inaudible oscillations they start to move in
unpredictable ways, which leads at times to spontaneous
knot formations in varying complexity as well as their
instantaneous dissolution. The bouncing strings in turn
slightly strike the brass plates and create a pulsating
field that constantly shifts by time, by the visitors walk
through it and the change of one’s perspective.
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