unbound
video ~ text ~ photos
Kinetic sound installation
Glass, water, concrete, hydrophone and four-channel sound
115cm x 51cm x 51cm
A glass element sustains a water whirlpool in continuous de~formation. The movement never settles into a fixed shape, and form appears only as an effect of ongoing flow.
Live sound from the water’s turbulence is captured and spatialised in real time, producing a sonic vortex that swirls through the room. Listening becomes circular and immersive, drawing the body into a field of motion rather than toward a stable point.
The work engages the poetics and politics of formlessness. It asks how such a state might resist demands for containment, coherence, and stability.
Whirlpools have long been linked to monstrosity — to figures that refuse to stay still, that trouble the boundaries of sense-making and fixed categories. The work inhabits this spectrum of the uncontained and the indeterminate, approaching the bodymind as a relational continuum of exquisite matter — temporary, unstable, and theatrical — a whirlpool entangled in a choreography of events and encounters.
What appears is “a flow creating the illusion of a form,” as Pauline Oliveros once phrased it — a listening that attunes to what moves beneath.
KABUFF – Galerie für Gegenwartskunst | E-WERK
Freiburg-Im-Breisgau DE
(2024)
Supported by Culture Moves Europe
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This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
