Collage -> Sound -> Autonomous Mechanism -> Autopoietic Feedback
by Travis Wyche
August 19, 2010
March 21, 2010
Finnbogi Petursson
Wind-drawing 1995
The ventilators are started one after the other forming pillars of wind rising up vertically from the floor, pillars that the viewer cannot see but rather feels upon approaching
the work.
The volcano gate 1999 – The volcano gate panorama from Centre Regional D´Art, Sete, France, Ragna Róbertsdóttir and Finnbogi Pétursson 1999 The premise of the work is the belief in the Middle Ages that the gate to hell was through the crater of the Hekla volcano in Iceland. I perceive emissive noise-sound from the FM receiver to be the basic sound of the work. It is sent through a programmer which divides it into two rotating channels and forms two parallel circles around 16 loudspeakers warping the sound to Ragna Róbertsdóttir’s pumice-work.
Pendulums – 1993 – VIDEO
Pendulums, produced early in the summer of 1993 for the “Borealis 6” exhibition at the National Gallery of Iceland, is a logical continuation of Circle from 1991. Three large loudspeakers were installed at the bottom of long pipes and made to swing like pendulums over tiny microphones, producing a haunting frequency to the rhythm of their pendulous movement.
