CORPUS:
thermal beings
../Related Objects
KEYWORD:
#interactive installation
CULTURAL DEFINITION:
../Edition: 1 / 1
../Co-authors:
recipient.cc
TECHNICAL DATA:
../Object:
simple reactivable
../Matter and technique: Interacting spatial installation: drawings, sculpture, oil painting on wood, holographic and sound system.
../Measures: varying dimensions
DESCRIPTION: The Thermal Beings takes its cue from an apparently useless activity, stubbornly
carried out during the artist's unproductive downtime in his studio: the systematic
survey of the flight paths of some gnats influenced by the temperature of the
surrounding environment.
Graphic jumbles on more or less random sheets are rigorously inventoried with
date, time and environmental conditions. From here a research between scientific
rigor and divertissement develops, between otium and negotium in a stratification
of scientific, literary, philosophical and historical references. The title of
the work, The Thermal Beings, originates from a suggestion of the writer Jorge
Luis Borges.
In the adjacent space, a room immersed in darkness welcomes the viewer: here, in
the center, a holographic light grid floating in mid-air, reproduces the trajectories
of gnats.
Beyond it, a presence in half-light enters the scene: it is a small sculpture, the
Dancing Sorcerer, which recalls the theriomorphic figure typical of prehistoric
wall paintings. The fluid, vitalistic dimension between man and nature that characterizes
this primordial type of human artistic-ritual expression exorcises the
complex relationship with a world far removed from today's anthropization.
However, in the apical moment in which we physically approach its ideal center,
the hypnotic holography and the chiaroscuro of the sorcerer vanish. The turning
on of the lights in the space reveals the mise en scéne suspending the possibility
of grasping a sense beyond the apparent, dramatic opacity of the insignificance
of the Thermal Beings.
THEMES:
../#body:
interaction
../#breath:
heterodetermined
../#imagination:
political_act biophilia
../#identity:
technology pseudoscience
SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS:
../Images: https://photos.app.goo.gl/yT78Xw2sJsoFoiUQ8
../Videos: https://youtu.be/axNyyvBEvIc
../Presentation [pdf]: f_archive_TB.pdf
../Information card [pdf]: the thermal beings.pdf
../Bibliography:
Making Sense, Palazzo Pretorio, Cittadella. 2015. isbn 9788867875443
../Exhibition:
Making Sense, Palazzo Pretorio, Cittadella. 2015
../Collection: artist archive