SCATTERED DIFFUSION

An interactive, live audio-visual performance that took up the materialities of the exhibition* "Stretching Materialities" and invited the visitors to create a collage of image and sound. Accompanied by the Sound Artist Siamend Darwesh and fragmentary theoretical reflections of mine about New Materialism by the philosopher Jane Bennet.

* Shown at `Stretching Materialities´ at Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin, 2022. `»Stretching Materialities« was an open experimental platform engaging theory and practice. Imagine you could stretch your senses to feel, see, hear and touch the material world beyond human sensory abilities. This experience might change the way you engage with your environment in the face of social, political and ecological urgencies.´

Four microphones were installed at four different stations to create four different sound layers. Parallel to this, visitors collected microscopic material images and sent them to the live video manipulation software TouchDesigner. Participants were also invited to visually integrate their own faces or other body parts to create a sort of blending inbetween human and matter. Through microscopic magnification pumice stone is transformed into a cratered landscape and tiny grains of sand appear as large as rocks. The video footage was layered while sound triggered input effects. The exhibition was created by multidisciplinary scientists and designers of the project Object Space Agency of the Cluster of Excellence "Matters of Activity" of the Humboldt-University Berlin. It was directed and curated by Prof. Dr. Claudia Blümle and Clemens Winkler.

Documentary film: Clara Becking