CONFLUX
2010

Commission:
STEIM

Support:
STEIM
Sonic Acts XIII
Melkweg
DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm
MaerzMusik
Kontraste

Editions:
1st Edition / Sonic Acts XIII 2010
2nd Edition / MaerzMusik 2011
3rd Edition / Kontraste 2011

Dimension and Duration: Varies

Description:
Conflux is an environment consists of pseudo-matters. This empirical work investigates the materiality of ephemeral entities. This piece was inspired by the James J. Gibson's idea of environment where a spectator's existence is crucial. In this piece, spectators are not onlookers, but active parts of it. A Belgian composer Henri Pousseur's phrase in Umberto Eco's The Open Work,

"Since the phenomena are no longer tied to one another by a term-to-term determination, it is up to the listener to place himself deliberately in the midst of an inexhaustible network of relationships and to choose for himself, so to speak, his own modes of approach, his reference points and his scale, and to endeavor to use as many dimensions as he possibly can at the same time and thus dynamize, multiply and extend to the utmost degree his perceptual faculties."

This performative installation provides an environment of pseudo matters to experience the shifting modes of perception in time: from perception of surrounding to proprioception of spectators themselves.