DOUBLE HEART is a pneumatic sound sculpture which collects the heartbeats of random people and transforms them into a collective soundscape. Two visitors sit inside the sculpture, their pulse is measured, processed and amplified, revealing the endless variability of these rhythmic patterns. The beats are transmitted in real time by a sound system that can also be heard by the audience outside the installation.
The installation absorbs frequencies of human bodies and searches for possible compatibility between strangers and beloved, questioning the match as atonal empathy or natural attraction.
DOUBLE HEART
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Gau Zuria / Nuit Blanche, Bilbao, Spain, 2023
Curator: Anna Pujol, The City of Bilbao - Lux Festival, Centro Cultural La Térmica, Malaga, Spain, 2023
Curator: Mateo Feijoo -
Design Week Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2022
Curator: Dajana Vujaklija -
Love Exhibition, Digital Art Festival Taipei, Taiwan, 2020
Curator: Yenyi Lee -
Polytech Festival, Moscow, Russia, 2017
Curator: Anna Titovets Intektra
Double Heart is a pneumatic sound sculpture which collects the heartbeats of random people and transforms them into a collective soundscape. Two visitors sit inside the sculpture, their pulse is measured, processed and amplified, revealing the endless variability of these rhythmic patterns. The beats are transmitted in real time by a sound system that can also be heard by the audience outside the installation.
The installation absorbs frequencies of human bodies and searches for possible compatibility between strangers and beloved, questioning the match as atonal empathy or natural attraction.
Double Heart is a project that is constantly evolving and has already been exhibited on different occasions. The initial project was developed in 2013 together with the media artist Marco Barotti on the occasion of the ‘Red Never Follows’ Exhibition at Saatchi Gallery’s in London: many thanks for his support.
Concept:
Plastique Fantastique
Plastique Fantastique assistants:
Cora Röschlein, Pihla Pellinen, Sebastian Podesta
Audio and programming assistants:
Markus Wüste, Misha Douglas MacLaren
Special thanks ︎:
Marco Barotti
Special thanks ︎︎:
Senka Radovic, Ksenia Lukina, Dmitry Sokolov, Jens Rösler (Goethe-Institut Taipei), Tsung-Han (DingZing advanced materials), Martín Moniche Ferrer, Luis Díaz González.