360° phosphorescent laser sculpture 2011

A snail invents the wheel and goes through a cultural evolution, to finally get back to its origin.
A laser animation is projected at an angle of 360° onto a column, so that the audience has to walk around to follow the course of the snail. The projection surface is of phosphorescent material, which creates an after-glowing trail, fading out slowly.

Choreography, animation, object: Philipp Artus philippartus.com
Music: Madalena Graça madalenagraca.com

"200 prepared dc-motors, 2000 cardboard elements 70x70cm", 2011
Zimoun in collabortation with Architect Hannes Zweifel.
motors, power supply, circuitry wire, cardboard
49.2 x 29.5 x 14.7' / 15 x 9 x 4.5 m

Installation view: Contemporary Art Museum MNAC Bucharest, Romania.
Curated by Rokolectiv Bucharest.

Using simple and functional components, Zimoun (b. 1977, Switzerland) builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in Zimoun’s minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates.

Video courtesy of the artist.

Compilation Video:
vimeo.com/7235817

To learn more about Zimoun's work, please visit:
zimoun.ch
bitforms.com/zimoun-gallery.html

no-surprises.de/rechnender_raum

3Destruct an audiovisual installation
Scopitone Festival / Le Lieu Unique / Nantes / France
October 2011

Visuals:
YANNICK JACQUET
JEREMIE PEETERS

Music:
THOMAS VAQUIE

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