WHITEOUT (2020)
︎ read: PDF Essay as published by Photoresearcher
Whiteout is based on an essay of the same title, originally written for AX15 (a book publication by Mario de Vega, see photos below)
The sound starting from around minute 9 is from a live performance recording by Mario de Vega.
The stroboscopic images are all from the slides of the 2 year colloquium “Resolution Studies”
Whiteout is inspired by my ARTS AT CERN residency, a climb of the Brocken mountain (Blocksberg) and a voyage on board the Chilean Armada to Antartica.
In Whiteout, I tell the story of an exhausting hike during a snowstorm. As I make my way up onto the mountain, I experience a loss of my physical sensations; leading to an inability to see, hear, or orient myself. While at first I still know what direction I am going, I slowly lose my spatial dimensions. I experience oversaturation by nothing - as the environment starts to offer itself in new ways.
I ask myself, what does it mean, to move without visual or auditory references?
To physically plot a course when there is no conventional sense of direction or even horizon?
When feeling oversaturated, by a lack of anything, what new ways of sensing can be found?
︎ ARTFORUM write up: ArtForum, December ‘21, page 207
Whiteout is based on an essay of the same title, originally written for AX15 (a book publication by Mario de Vega, see photos below)
The sound starting from around minute 9 is from a live performance recording by Mario de Vega.
The stroboscopic images are all from the slides of the 2 year colloquium “Resolution Studies”
Whiteout is inspired by my ARTS AT CERN residency, a climb of the Brocken mountain (Blocksberg) and a voyage on board the Chilean Armada to Antartica.
In Whiteout, I tell the story of an exhausting hike during a snowstorm. As I make my way up onto the mountain, I experience a loss of my physical sensations; leading to an inability to see, hear, or orient myself. While at first I still know what direction I am going, I slowly lose my spatial dimensions. I experience oversaturation by nothing - as the environment starts to offer itself in new ways.
I ask myself, what does it mean, to move without visual or auditory references?
To physically plot a course when there is no conventional sense of direction or even horizon?
When feeling oversaturated, by a lack of anything, what new ways of sensing can be found?
︎ ARTFORUM write up: ArtForum, December ‘21, page 207
