RELAY
Installation
1848 recycled relay motors originate from approximately 300 scrap cars, where they served as electronic circuit breakers for turn signals. These relay motors, which click and buzz independently of each other, are mounted on fourteen old corrugated steel panels and create the basis of a 40 minute audio-visual experience performed by the 12-meter-wide and 4-meter-tall art installation.
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Inspired by the distorted balance between man and nature, Touki Delphine uses technology to reflect the power and beauty of nature. Allow yourself to be overwhelmed by the deafening fragility of technology and the astounding violence of nature. An investigation of our ever-changing self image, from vulnerable and subordinate to superior and untouchable. From prey to plague.
“We want to show the unpredictable with RELAY, nature’s elegance and might. That concrete material and technology can create such a poetic experience is a contrast which to us resembles the tense balance between humankind, nature and technology. We constructed RELAY using recycled relay motors. A relay is an electronic switch: with relatively low voltage an electromagnet is activated, moving a small piece of metal, which makes a clicking sound. If not quite enough current is applied the piece of metal vibrates back and forth 115 times per second, creating a buzz instead of a click. The resulting sound is a tone, around a B-flat, and by combining several with each other (in this case 1848) one achieves a sea of overtones with which to compose.” – Touki Delphine
RELAY is an auditory and visual work of art. A composition exploring development and transience. A performance that solicits modesty.
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