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L.A. LETIZIA ARTIOLI 

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CLIMATE ENTITY 002
“YOU ARE A BUTTERFLY UNTIL YOU DON’T FLAP YOUR WINGS”

Previewed at:
TU Delft Library,
Studium Generale’s Climate Action Programme
Delft(NL)

Climathon Venice “Arts&Climate”
Accademia Belle Arti Venezia,
Venice(IT)

CAAOSSS Concert
“No Sounds Unturned”
Amare,Conservatoriumzaal
Den Haag (NL)
2023


SUGGESTIONS/INSTRUCTIONS:

Dip your fingers into the water, in two different glasses, starting from the red wire.


What you are hearing are field recordings of lost landscapes, ecosystems and specimens that have been lost in the last 10 years due to climate change.

You are composing a third new landscape, out of ghosts, echoes of lost ecosystems, and our continuous exchange of particles with the world.

We are spectators of present ruins/future ghosts and composers of present ghosts/future ruins.

The strange relationship that we wave with nature, is expressed in a composition of poetic insights that flashes while we see the landscapes we inhabit slowly disappearing under our eyes, and while we compose a third sonic landscape made of echoed ghosts, trough a liquid interface.




Taking inspiration from the axiom butterfly/tornado, the installation aims to amplify and making resonance of our micro scaled actions and their potential reverberated macro effect. While we scroll our feeds, while we wave and flap our wings thinking that we are unnoticed, unrelenting processes of slow violence are making our ecosystems fade away.

As intrusive thoughts pass into our mind, the screens show the interferences of disruptive phenomena news and at the same time how we objectify nature in small packages of bits, eating them like smarties.

“In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.

The term is closely associated with the work of mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz. He noted that the butterfly effect is derived from the metaphorical example of the details of a tornado (the exact time of formation, the exact path taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as a distant butterfly flapping its wings several weeks earlier. Lorenz originally used a seagull causing a storm but was persuaded to make it more poetic with the use of a butterfly and tornado by 1972.”


The installation triggers the echoes of lost landscapes thanks to human touch composing it (Playtron device), and at the same time shows how, during a depressive phase, information is elusive and liquefy in our mind (Ipad screens). On the screens, you see a fragmented flow of information of the dichotomic stream of consciousness that replicated what happens during a depressive phase. Between the butterfly and the tornado, disruptive phenomena’s information is seeming to appear suddenly, with no prologue, no anticipation, without announced beginnings and sometimes, reactionaries/relentless to end.

Instagram-perfect image of an idyllic nature crashes the same bits of the increasing number of floods, hurricanes, droughts, wildfires.

The strange relationship that we wave with nature, is expressed in a composition of poetic insights that flashes while we see the landscapes we inhabit slowly disappearing under our eyes, and while we compose a third sonic landscape made of echoed ghosts.



Dip your fingers into the water, in two different glasses, starting from the red wire.


The Playtron device connects every object that conducts electricity (in this case, different vases/bowls/glasses containing water). By touching water, field recordings of disappeared landscapes are triggered.

The composition will be ever changing, a collection of broken fragments found from Radio Aporee’s library of field recordings all over the world. Every track is linked to a landscape (forests, lakes, shores, land) that disappeared in the last 10 years, due to climate change. I collected these field recordings as a non-linear and broken archive of sonic fragments without order, as real landscape are disappearing faster than their digital traces.

This dispirited and disrupted archive, collecting field recordings of ghost landscapes, is an unfinished business that retraces a slow violence (R.Nixon,2011) that lays under our eyes, and yet do not escapes our ears.

The Playtron acts like an electronic octopus that makes all these fragments of lost echoes available to human touch. The water samples are a liquid keyboard between our body GRS (Galvanic Skin Response) and the hidden sonic traces.

We are composers of present ruins/future ghosts and spectators of present ghosts/future ruins.



LIST OF DISAPPEARED LANDSCAPES

  


CE002 Installed at TU Delft Library / Plant Interface



MATERIALS:
Playtron, water, glass beckers, Ipads screens, Panaphonic tile speakers

SOURCES:

Sounds:Radio Aporee SoundMap

Video: IG @CnnClimate @unclimate @lifegate @larepubblica + @ownercreditsbeloweachreel

Installation & Concept: Letizia Artioli

Studium Generale’s Climate Programme Team: Marieke Serps, Lester Lardenoye
Climathon Curator: Francesca Guarnotta & VeniceCalls


DOCUMENTATION:
CAAOSSS Concert -  @Sentimentaldummy
Climathon - Chiara Fedato x VeniceCalls