No Place To Swing A Cat (Even Like This)
Painting and projection installation
(200 cm x 150 cm)
Blue plastic mesh, specialty canvas, oil, metallic paint, oil bars, surface transducers low and high frequency, class D amplifier, media player, 3D printed beads, dynema thread, generative composition by Vahakn Matossian.
The city with its’ landscape and soundscape meet in this place. Emptiness also occupies space, colour also creates interactions, some raw some rarified. Raw like a blank herringbone canvas and other parts covered in very intense hues and pigments, metallic and oil. Drum membrane is what the entire surface of this work becomes. Some with Medieval yellows and others with Titanium white or Cerulean blue.
The generative codes make the movement of each vibration unique to the previous one or following one. “No Place To Swing A Cat (Even like this)” is named after a comment by one of the movers of the shipping company CONSTANTINE who came and was faced with a crammed full studio where nothing could be turned around with a jammed passage with large canvases etc. Just like a modest landscape of an artist studio.
BEHAVIOUR
Subsonic drivers vibrate the canvas. The frame and fabric are a resonating membrane. Subsonics can be felt and the harmonics heard. The small beads bounce on the membrane to alert visitors the phenomena. Small clicks come from the top right but spread everywhere like digital rain.
