Artists Statement
June 11-12, PLANTA – Sorigué. ISEA2022 Extended Programme
PLANTA is a place for talent and creativity in a business environment. It combines contemporary art, architecture, knowledge and landscape and it is the intersection between the Sorigué group and Fundació Sorigué.
On June 11 and 12, PLANTA hosted the installation ‘CALL OUT’, by Abel Korinsky & Orhan Kavrakogl, recently awarded with one of the ISEA2022 Barcelona’s grants from Fundació Sorigué.
The installation is about satellites which spread around the world and build a huge network/ swarm in our orbit to connect the world virtually. SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, wants to place more than 12,000 satellites in our orbit by 2027. Since 1967, a decade after the first satellite “Sputnik” was launched, the Outer Space Treaty has provided the basic framework for international space law. However, countries have increasingly been allowing commercial endeavors under their own regulations and a “war” on claiming space as private property has already begun. Space around Earth is not under any nation’s flag and it’s basically on a first-come-first-served basis that an individual with an astronomical source of income can obtain control over.
Satellites govern a large part of our daily lives but we are not well aware of this fact, even though literal thousands of them are floating right above our heads. Satellites enable us to achieve a lot in our time of highly-advanced technology but there are still many unanswered questions about them. Responsibility, debris, ownership, data collection and control of communication are only a few of the major topics which need to be discussed.
This site-specific, data-driven, immersive installation creates a field of light using LED tubes and surrounds the audience with a real-time, yet ever-changing 3D presence of light. The light reminds the audience of the existence of satellites above their heads that are invisible to the naked eye but are slowly and surely taking up space and littering our global common. The installation sheds light on the subject and brings up the questions that need to be answered—for our generation and for the generations to come.
While showing the real-time movements and the appearance/disappearance of satellites, the work generates abstract light patterns derived from the satellites themselves. The intense sound spatialization is synced with the visuals to enhance the audience’s experience. The transient nature and the physical beauty of the light patterns works with the three-dimensional sound to transport the audience to outer space, and the boundaries between reality and illusion are blurred.
The visit included a complete tour of PLANTA (with audio-guided tour) and the temporary installation “Call Out”.
https://plantaproject.com/en/statement/art/call-out
- Abel Korinsky (DE) The twin brothers Abel and Carlo Korinsky are working on installations, performances, gallery and museum works. Through audio-visual installations, they are trying to evoke a different kind of perception. They create site–specific works and have worked in old factories, churches and many other often disused spaces. The intense environments in their installations are demanding of all the senses. Especially the beauty of nature/ natural phenomena get distorted or destroyed by sensual interventions of sound, setting of light and sculptural installations and confront the audience with an altered reality. They have been commissioned to create works e.g. for Ars Electronica Linz, Melbourne Biennial, Grace Cathedral San Francisco, Kestnergesellschaft Hanover, Art&Tech days Slovakia, Bozar – Center of fine Arts Brussels. https://korinsky.com
- Orhan Kavrakoglu (TR) is senior software engineer and architect, maker. My two-fold career includes consulting or joining software projects/companies and basic electronics design and new media art.
This project has been awarded with the ISEA2022 Barcelona Grant by Fundació Sorigué https://www.fundaciosorigue.com