Flotsam&Jetsam: Libeskind

4K UHD, 25 fps
2.30 min
2014

Scripting: Julius Steinhauser
Sound: Zeitguised with Michael Fakesch

Cloud II, Walls builds tension between an uncontrolled catastrophe and the controlled, abstract and clean environment of the engineer's drawing space. A homage to Daniel Libeskind's early drawings "Micromegas" and to the "War and Architecture" drawings of Lebbeus Woods, it makes it possible to think two realms as one: the potential of systemic failure, the assertion of control, and the beauty of generating an artefact of indeterminate form in between.

It is part of Zeitguised's larger strand of work concerned with clouds of grey goo: a transitionary, metastable mass that is nothing yet becomes anything, if only for a fleeting moment. A swarming system that shows symptoms of life and the agility of a connected organism, the cloud is a bastardisation of the abstract and the real, a twitching borderline between fiction and concretisation.

In a post-anthropocentric motion, the cloud works postulate that the predictable merging of nano-, bio- and information technologies will render perpetually evolving shapes into real artefacts of uncertain, polymorphic appearance.

The full original artwork is a limited edition on Sedition.