Sliding under Traces


2016

Sliding under Traces is an installation centered around ideas of rejuvenication and the myth of immortality.
Presented in a former bathing house, the space returned into a wet space - specificaly climatized - to host snails, among others.
Exhibition:

Sliding under trace, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam

Materials:

Breeded snail colony (Helix pomatia), intensively climatized habitat, barrel, pump, hose,

sprinkelers, handblown glass flask, plinth witht dustcover, bench,

Mini-mac, amplified snail-sounds, multi-channel software, algorythm, 8 active dome-speakers in a 'fibonacci' set-up [1]


1. starting from your feet - at snail level - and evolving into a golden ratio of sound by the route of suspended slime showers.

Dimensions:

1020 x 760 cm (devided over 2 floors)

Photo:

Luciana Caputo