Trilobit
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2024 Trilobit is a spatial installation that makes vibrations visible – vibrations that are normally not directly perceptible to us as humans. Using a seismograph, these movements are recorded as frequency traces. The vibrations are generated by solenoids programmed by me, installed inside a capsule-like object. This object is “guarded” by the two halves of a trilobite fossil. At the same time, the seismograph also captures the movements of people in the space and registers them as part of the measurement. At the center is a scroll of soot-coated paper on which the vibrations measured in the room are continuously inscribed. While the fossil appears as a witness to deep time, the real-time recordings make the present visible. In this way, the work connects geological time with the immediate here and now – as a measurable trace of presence and movement       |