This work is a collaboration between Marie Rossi, Manoah Camporini and Nathan Prost.

Our installation uses technical equipment to explore the possibilities of interaction between the objects that make up a space. Sound and light are two sensitive dimensions that we relate to each other in a particular way in order to elicit a set of distinct interactions that reveal not a totality, but the possibilities of relationships.

A microphone permanently records the sounds of the space and uses its recordings to generate sound. The sound device acts as a non-linear supra-echo, recording and emitting at the same time. It uses its own cognition to select, from all the sounds heard, those it reproduces and those it ignores. By playing continuously, it becomes a constant and irregular echo, with its own memory and its own way of expressing itself. This sound echo triggers a luminous reaction. A light panel changes according to what the sound device produces. It takes into account its own parameters, sensitive properties that it transforms into other sensitive properties. The panel varies in luminous intensity, enabling it to express a changing relationship with all the material objects in the space, accentuating cast shadows or completely obstructing the space. In this way, light reveals its potential for spatial interaction. But these conditions of interaction are also orchestrated by a system of relations between emission and reception. The installation does not claim to be an autonomous device orchestrating its own relationship with the world. It amplifies relationships that are already present, but whose possibilities for interaction are crossed by the device. The device emanates from the site and does not go beyond it, but reinvents it through its new technical possibilities.