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Department

Fine Arts

Year

2019

This work attempts to combine two different movement groups: the micro-movements produced by the air when the metro train reaches the station with the movements of the body and the wings of a trapped insect. In this project, the movements of a piece of nylon attached on a small stick of wood which was motioned according to the air in the metro station, were recorded and then transformed into the movements of one of the wings of the trapped insect, while the rest of its body is moving independently and uncontrollably. On one hand, the movements of the nylon piece, though they are different every time, they are repeated at the same frequency since the metro network works on a manufactured, close to perfect, scheduled timetable, and on the other hand, the movements of the insect trying to escape, are completely unpredictable in terms of the time of appearance and also in their intensity and variety.

Fedlev building & Benthem Crouwel building
Fred. Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam
Netherlands