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‘Space-Time Vortex’ 2024 |
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The audivisual installation "Space-Time Vortex" uses different videorecordings of so called antmills. An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. This circle is commonly known as a "death spiral" because the ants might eventually die of exhaustion. In this artwork, the rotating speed of these circles varies by means of a continual change in playback-speed of the video's. Thus the artist makes use of the fact that, once a live situation is recorded on a audiovisual medium, it can be manipulated in time in postproduction. The created time shifts and variations are one to one copied to a spacial complex of sound recordings made in a natural environment. Space consists of 3 dimensions, and time is one-dimensional, therefore, space-time is 4-dimensional. Rotation of the planet twists space-time. The combined shape resembles that of a vortex. The idea of space-time vortices or wormholes is often explored in science fiction as a means of enabling faster-than-light travel or facilitating time travel. However, they remain purely theoretical constructs at this point and have not been observed or confirmed to exist in reality. |
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VIDEO 5:30 min |
