Eucrasia / Dyscrasia

6 tanks, Synchonized Pumps, Black Ink, Etchings, 5600k Cinema Lights, Cast Pharmaceutical Starch, Latex, Custom Microcontrollers

Black fluid is pumped through two adjacent walls in synchronization. It raises and lowers according to 1000 years of the Sun's position in relation to Iceland.  One thousand years are compressed into the duration of the six-week exhibition.  Eight channel accompanying audio, recorded with a sixty member Polyphonic Choir, adds to the mechanized respiration of the room. The white space volumetrically fills with complete darkness, and then empties with bright white light.  The ceiling bulges down in various places of the Gallery under the weight of a cluster of cast white stones which resembles traditional loom weights.

Castigatio

7 tanks, Synchronized Pumps, Saline Solution, Etchings, Silkscreen, 5600k Cinema Lights, Cast Pharmaceutical Starch, Dyed Linen Gauze, Custom Microcontrollers

Saline soluton is pumped through two adjacent Gallery walls in synchronization. It raises and lowers according to 100 years of tidal predictions for The Netherlands.  One hundred years are compressed into the duration of the six-week exhibition. The white space volumetrically fills with red light with the tide, and returns to white light at low tide.  A silkscreened tank which reads ‘Castigatio’ fills as well.   A ‘Sounding Line’ cast of pharmaceutical starch and marked with stained gauze lays tangled on the gallery floor.

Drowning Cell

2 Tons of Sea Salt, 316L Surgical Steel, 5600k Cinema Lights, Custom Micro-controller and Mechanics

Somewhere between drowning and dehydration; the entire space is submerged beneath two tons of sea salt.   A swimming pool ladder of cast sea salt leads from walls covered in salt to a ceiling of salt. The central piece, a rocking chair built for two constructed of cast sea-salt and surgical steel, cuts away at a hexagon enclosed by a cast salt picket fence.   A mechanical clock-like piece on the wall serves as a metronome.  Enclosed in an entire room of salt, viewers experienced dehydration after only several minutes in the space.

Untitled (Meditation Number 9)

Water, Bucket, Film, Projector, Transducer, Custom Electronics

The moon is projected into a bucket of water. When there is the slightest movement in the room, the water would vibrate, obscuring the projection of the moon. Only when one remained still or the room empty would the reflection of the moon be distinguishable.

Unraveling Bonds

Lava, Sea Salt, Wood, Silk

The molecular structure of ADH, the hormone that regulates the body’s water and salt to prevent itself from drowning and dehydrating, is constructed out of lava with eight mythological phases of the moon, a wolf, and twelve wooden pails.

Odysseus Raft

4 Channel Video, 8 Channel Audio, 4 Rear Projection Screens (4m x 5m), Camera, Custom Software

An immersive interactive installation which premiered at the 2003 Rotterdam International Film Festival.  The sea is projected onto four rear screens. Without people, the horizon is centered and balanced.  When the space is entered, the sea responds visually and audibly according to the people’s weight and proximity as on a raft.  Those aboard must work together, or in opposition to steer a shared perspective.

Bicycle Thieves

Video, Audio, Rear Projection Screens (4m x 3m), Camera, Custom Software

The ebb and flow of Dutch bicycle traffic controlled the playback and deletion of Vittorio De Sica’s timeless classic film ‘Ladri di Biciclette’.  The bicycle served as a vehicle to carry the film forward (if approaching the Gallery) or backward (if moving away) while erasing the frames after they play.  A jump cut created by an initial bicycle gradually widens with each pass, until the entire film is deleted and we are left with only the final frame of the film:  'Fin'.  The installation reacted only to passing bicycles, which affected the film in real time.  The film took ten days to delete.

Timed Release (Rift)

4 Channel Sound (duration 80.3 years), Cast Pharmaceutical Starch, 316L Surgical Steel

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge that separates Iceland is a central character.  On one side of the Museum, the American tectonic plate.  On the other, the Eurasian tectonic plate.  The plates are pulling apart at annual rate of ±17mm.  A sound piece is generated by the slow separation of the plates over the next 80.3 years by a sixty member polyphonic choir.  Four climbing ropes divide the space, and are embedded into the museum walls with surgical steel pitons.