Rotating disks, sliding pipes and twisting wires. Crackling paper, floating speakers, evaporating water drops. A performance of numerous identical parts, guided by their own material and interdependencies, evolving into moving objects.Rotierende Scheiben, gleitende Stangen und sich windende Schnüre. Knisterndes Papier, schwebende Lautsprecher, verdunstende Wassertropfen. Eine Choreografie unzähliger identischer Teile, gesteuert durch ihre eigene Materie und deren Abhängigkeiten, in sich bewegende Objekte verschmelzend. Dischi che rotano, tubi che scorrevano, fili che si intrecciano. Il crepitio della carta e l'evaporazione delle goccioline d'acqua. Una performance fatta dalle numerose parti identiche, guidate dalle sue proprie materie e interdipendenze, che si sviluppano nei oggetti in movimento.
BiographyBiografiePe Lang in his workshop close to Zurich. Born in 1974, Swiss artist Pe Lang has a background in electronics, computer programming and experimental music. Emphasizing the role of the observer and inviting us to rethink the notion of technology, Pe consistently challenges the idea of a fixed, immutable reality by exploring the boundaries of possibility.
With an almost scientific approach, Swiss artist artist Pe Lang exploits the intrinsic properties of the materials, shapes and surfaces he uses. Through their experimental combination, he manages to mechanically program their behaviours by exploring the oscillations between order and disarray, pattern and dissonance, flow and friction.
But like algorithms that crash in the presence of a misplaced semicolon, Pe Lang’s kinetic installations are minimal yet sophisticated systems that depend on the precise combination of parameters in which each and every detail participates in creating a captivating interplay.
CreditsInitiator: Digital Arts AssociationDirection: Caroline Hirt, Christian EtterPartner: Hinderling Volkart, Microsoft, Greenliff
Special thanksMarianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Anouk Fürst, Lisa Heierli, Carolina Misztela, Alexa Jeanne Kusber, Moritz Schuler, Nadim Shehadeh, Adrian Stutz, Michael Volkart, Michael Hinderling, Ryan Gaspar, Nadine Nyffenegger, Markus Pilz, Anna Ramseier, Irma Etter-Schuler
