WHITEOUT (2020)
︎ read: PDF Essay as published by Photoresearcher
Whiteout describes an exhausting journey to the top of a mountain 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 other ways can I still use to sense?
☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰
Whiteout is based on an essay writtem by myself, originally written for AX15, a book by Mario de Vega, who also did the sound starting from around minute 9.
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.
︎ ARTFORUM write up: ArtForum, December ‘21, page 207
Whiteout describes an exhausting journey to the top of a mountain 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 other ways can I still use to sense?
☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰
Whiteout is based on an essay writtem by myself, originally written for AX15, a book by Mario de Vega, who also did the sound starting from around minute 9.
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.
︎ ARTFORUM write up: ArtForum, December ‘21, page 207
AX15 A book by Mario de Vega, for which I wrote the essay and also made some of the photos.