ALTERNATING CURRENTS I-IV
CHRISTIAN SKJØDT HASSELSTRØM

 

 

ALTERNATING CURRENTS I-IV

YEAR: 2017
MATERIALS: Electricity, loudspeakers, motors, piedestals
MEASURES: 40 cm x 40 cm x 90 (x4)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art (Skissernas Museum) / Kungshuset. 'On the Thresholds of Knowledge'. Lund, Sweden. September 2017 ; Skulpturi/Pirpa. 'Engros'. Copenhagen, Denmark. May-April 2017 ; DIAS Kunsthal. Vallensbæk, Denmark. February-March 2018.

Alternating Currents I-IV are a series of kinetic sculptures which quite directly play with the AC electricity from the power outlets of the site. With slowly rotating speakers (one revolution per minute) they distribute the sounds of electricity waves; enabling to hear the unheard and/or the unwanted. Find yourself encaptured with electricity, the foundation of modern life, which usually is sought to be soundless and relegated to be transported inside walls. Alternating Currents I-IV can be seen as witnesses to what we are unable to perceive and the boundary between our sensory apparatus and the materiality of the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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