LOOMER (2019), microphone stand, UV light bulbs, acoustic filter composite panel, coil pickups, power amplifier and custom speakers, artist’s bomber jacket and trousers, mobile phones, wi-fi connection, cables, 182x55x110 cm.
To become at once emitter and receiver, to perceive the vibration of entities and forces beyond addressability, while resonating in tune, and out of tune, in feeding back waves of affirmation and sympathy with the human, and the nonhuman. This concerns the very features of the aural, the way waves and frequencies, audible and inaudible, are capable of shaking bodies and make them vibrate physically, and to lead (or mislead) our perception of mass in space.
LOOMER (2019) is a sculptural installation composed of a microphone stick, cables, garments, heat-emitting UV bulbs, various objects and acoustic transducers that sense and amplify the electromagnetic waves of cellphones. A kind of mineral abstract machine, or a scarecrow in a world no longer inhabited by organic beings, which releases alien sounds as it gets close to the phones of spectators, establishing somewhat of a divine bridge between the viewers and the energy fields surrounding physical objects. Some incomprehensible physical dialogue, which reveals hyper spectral realities that spread, translucent, between the frameworks of the real present, hypothetical futures, and pasts, which appear as different and shimmering.
Photo: Federico Di Iorio
Courtesy the artist, Swan Station, Milano and Eduardo Secci, Firenze