Tipping Point

Exhibition Palais des Beaux-Arts

 

Tipping Point (2022) presents a hand-blown glass vessel containing a 12,000 year old ice core and 2,00 ml of air as a means to imagine the altered temperature, atmosphere and biosphere that will be present in an unsustainable future.

 
 

Methane lake (2022), is an evolving work made from air collected over the Yakutia lake in the Siberian Arctic. The toxic methane is the substance used for ink that reveals the hidden histories contained in polar ice. In combining ice and recordings from deep in the glaciers, the artist builds a bridge between our ancient ancestors and the history beneath our feet. 

A World Without Ice (2022) is a soundpiece that centres on the realm of collective unease while simultaneously pointing to a place of hope. Acoustically reimagining the celestial ‘Harmony of the spheres’ for a human-altered planet, this composition gives sonic expression to the changing frequencies of nature and the broken rhythms of the Earth in the Anthropocene. The piece plays with a world rhythm in subtle ways to explore a Byzantine Manuscript that illustrates the physics of a pure vibrational frequency. The simple chord structures, based on fifths, creates changing sound surfaces generated with the aid of humming devices and site recordings from the dying glaciers and exposed boglands.