Matthew Push

Current turbulences under observation

In the first installation, the artist Matthew Push fills our space with his deconstruction of a sound game. Dissected into its individual parts and connected by 'invisible' threads, which in turn are equipped with paper kites, the sound game is stimulated by a fan periodically alternating at two points by the turbulence generated. The repetitions (iterations) overlap and create their own dynamics in rhythm and intensity through the linked (interdependent) thread system. The installation can be viewed live for 2 weeks. The artist sets the deconstructed sound play in 10 audio-visual frames that represent different emotions and thus set the sound experience in its own context. The interplay of these emotional frames with the iteratively stimulated sound play is also to be understood as an allegory of Jaques Derrida's concept of iteration, in which each individual takes in information incompletely and at the same time this information affects several levels in the subject itself, which the individual must first bring into balance. The frames each symbolise a framework that our senses set for us in the context of a social setting as well - through emotions, among other things, but also in the form of interpretive patterns and classifications - and, by this, involve the observer in the experience of subjective perception. The first emotional frame has been available as NFT directly since the start of the exhibition. The other 9 were created during the 10-day live performance and are also available as NFTs.