Born SI. Lives and works in NL. Installation, commissioned by Sonic Acts, NIMk & STEIM. City Velocities – Body Speeds focuses on the tactile experience of travelling at some speed in an urban environment. When we travel on public transport we sit or stand still, but, ambiguously we are also moving. In its first version, the project involves measuring velocities of several trams in Amsterdam, streaming the data to the exhibition space at NIMk in real time. There the velocities of trams are transformed into airflows recreated by several powerful fans, each blowing the air at the speed of a moving tram. Visitors can physically feel and become aware of the travelling speed that we usually don't notice. Trams are considered as being at the intersection of planned schedules and the spontaneous unpredictability of street life and so the installation uncovers the particular dynamics and intensity of a city as an organism. Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec is an artist and musician who works with invisible ephemeral phenomena and the notion of space. His artistic practice is a poetic exploration of relationships between transitory and temporal flows such as sound and the weather and the architectural and social spaces they inhabit. In his installations, Sambolec sensitises architecture to its immediate ephemeral surroundings. By creating situations where outside and inside, the unpredictable and constructed, the permanent and the temporal and time and space converse, he enhances the temporal dimensions of architecture. Software development by Mr. Stock and Marije Baalman Hardware development by Rene Wassenburg This project was realised in collaboration with GVB Sponsored by AirFan BV photo by Ilya Rabinovich |