THE AIR LOOM
2022 by Peder Bjurman (SE) and Mark Holthusen (US)
Voice: Blixa Bargeld
Music by: David Coulter
Duration: 30 min. running as a loop
Venue size: Minimum 18 x 12 meters, Black box or dark gallery space.Venue height 3,5 meters
Tech: 4 x 10K video projectors, a surround sound system with 12 small speakers and 2 sub woofers
THE AIR LOOM PROJECT explores the new technologies defining our future, as we are letting them trace, track and collect our identity. Transgressing into the personal realm of our inner thoughts, doubts and demons, the installation piece examines the relationship between perception and paranoia, the self and its mirror image, exhibition and voyeurism.
Inspired by a true story, The AIRLOOM is a largescale sound and video- installation consisting of a box screen, directional speakers and the voice of Blixa Bargeld, in the role of the Influence Machine itself. Video artist Mark Holthusen has designed the system of see-through screens, as a box maze for the audience to walk around or enter, and the hauntingly
beautiful flow of imagery, that along with David Coulter’s eerie score creates a slightly hypnotic ambiance. Artist Peder Bjurman, who’s behind the concept, has written a text evolving around the self as illusion, the sense of selling your soul and the new abstract and fictional world deeply affecting our perception of reality.
