Artist Statement

Presented by Axle Contemporary.
We Are Experiencing Some Turbulence is a site-specific installation by Santa Fe bricoleur Michael Schippling in the Axle Contemporary mobile gallery. It comprises a truck full of small objects which move in what might, or might not, be random patterns. Proximity sensors allow the viewer to exercise some control over the motion so it becomes a meditation on our ability to distinguish the random from the regular.                                                                      youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=jZSh00ut6g4

• Michael Schippling has an Aesthetic Studies degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz (USA), where he studied photography and theater; and later, taught the introductory and advanced Electronic Music seminars that he was not qualified to take as a student.  etantdonnes.com/TEXT/AboutSchip.html