Biennale Arte 2024
Exhibition Overview
1. LED Screen
2. Organ
3. Red Polished (Glitch) Ware
4. Tyre Track
5. On the Right to be Forgotten, Part I:
Wayback Machine to Sun City
6. Beacons and Pillars
7. AVRION PROIN EN NA DEIS /
TOMORROW MORNING YOU WILL SEE
8. I stay oriented towards you, weak as you make me
9. Crossover Frequency Spectrum
10. Despite our severed connection,
11. قد تملكون القناديل لكن الضوء لنا الحلقة الثانية: كحل الليل /
You May Own the Lanterns but We Have the Light, Episode Two: Eyeshadow Dark as Night
12. Gaming Tower
Vigil Workspace
Publication
1. LED Screen
2. Organ
3. Red Polished (Glitch) Ware
4. Tyre Track
5. On the Right to be Forgotten, Part I:
Wayback Machine to Sun City
6. Beacons and Pillars
7. AVRION PROIN EN NA DEIS /
TOMORROW MORNING YOU WILL SEE
8. I stay oriented towards you, weak as you make me
9. Crossover Frequency Spectrum
10. Despite our severed connection,
11. قد تملكون القناديل لكن الضوء لنا الحلقة الثانية: كحل الليل /
You May Own the Lanterns but We Have the Light, Episode Two: Eyeshadow Dark as Night
12. Gaming Tower
Vigil Workspace
Publication
Marina Ashioti, Irini Khenkin, Alexandros Xenophontos
Two channel video installation, 8’45” (animation, CCTV footage, LIDAR scans of forest surrounding RAF Troodos Signals Station in Cyprus), stereo. Steel sculpture. Sound by Emiddio Vasquez. 3D LIDAR scanning by Cloudy Works.
Photography by Ugo Carmeni 2024
This message is a house that is a watchtower that is a ghost ship that is
surveillance software that is a Fata Morgana mirage, with stones placed
where the living rose takes root: the erotic condition where our knowing
negotiates rites, of metal and of meat.
A steel sculpture reminiscent of a pylon stands within SOUNDR and serves as a vessel, transmitting a chain of glitches and flickers of light across two channels to reach an unsettled spectre lingering in the periphery. The act of ghosting brings forth a moment of unrequited communication, here narratively reinterpreted as an attempt for communication between a ghost-hunting siren and her late lover.
Particles emerge from a seashell on the shore of the Akrotiri peninsula (a British-controlled military post) and disperse across the ether. They travel through sources of light recorded across a network of unsecured surveillance cameras, and through point clouds of the forest surrounding the island’s highest peak, home to RAF Troodos, the so-called “jewel in the crown of British intelligence”.
The video installation features animation sequences modelled after photographs uploaded on an online archive of military families residing in the “British Sovereign Base Areas” in Cyprus, converging with Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) point clouds and found surveillance footage, while fragmented utterances intercede electrophonic noise sources, blending with tones of spectrally encoded messages and material simulations.
A steel sculpture reminiscent of a pylon stands within SOUNDR and serves as a vessel, transmitting a chain of glitches and flickers of light across two channels to reach an unsettled spectre lingering in the periphery. The act of ghosting brings forth a moment of unrequited communication, here narratively reinterpreted as an attempt for communication between a ghost-hunting siren and her late lover.
Particles emerge from a seashell on the shore of the Akrotiri peninsula (a British-controlled military post) and disperse across the ether. They travel through sources of light recorded across a network of unsecured surveillance cameras, and through point clouds of the forest surrounding the island’s highest peak, home to RAF Troodos, the so-called “jewel in the crown of British intelligence”.
The video installation features animation sequences modelled after photographs uploaded on an online archive of military families residing in the “British Sovereign Base Areas” in Cyprus, converging with Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) point clouds and found surveillance footage, while fragmented utterances intercede electrophonic noise sources, blending with tones of spectrally encoded messages and material simulations.
Stills from video
Photography by Ugo Carmeni 2024