Altar of Interdimensional Entanglements

Altar reflects on the idea of portals as objects of intergenerational, interdimensional and celestial connections. It materializes through a series of knitted tapestries which depict Al-generated images of portals imagined as tunnels, or caves, or black holes. Each tapestry activates a sound recording of a composition of radio signals sourced from personal field recordings with handmade antennas, as well as open-source recordings from the Signal Wiki repository. The sounds are subtle and directional, as moving away from the tapestries they disappear.

The work is presented in the form of a multichannel sound installation in which each tapestry contains its own 1-minute composition that is being reproduced through transducers on the knitted fabric, converting it in a vibrating membrane.

A person stands observing textile art hung from industrial machinery. The setting is spacious, with a mix of metal structures and pipes.

In this piece, I chose to work with radio waves as they are both a natural phenomenon (electromagnetism exists everywhere in nature, the cosmos, our bodies, etc), but also a human made medium of communication. Radio has long been associated with extrasensorial activity; it is said that the first time that people heard AM radio they thought they were hearing voices from the past, and even to this day ghost detectors are primarily electromagnetic field detectors (radios that are tuned to a lower frequency than AM or FM). The use of textiles is a material choice that connects to the idea of embodied knowledge which carries histories of intergenerational practices, it refers to the multiplicity of bodies, and cultures that have inhabited this land, and it also symbolizes a way of physicalizing the fabric of spacetime.

This work was originally commissioned by the Meany Center for Performing Arts at the University of Washington, in the context of Altar No.3: I Choose To Remember Us Whole, a project led by Daniel Alexander Jones.

It was initially installed outside the Meany Studio Theater, and it formed part of a day-long community processional, and later an instance of it was installed at the lobby gallery of the Henry Art Museum.

Exhibitions

2025

SPAM New Media Festival, Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle, WA. Curated by Sadaf Sadri and Anna Skutley.

2024

And All Our World Is Dew. ACG Art Gallery, Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts at Deree – The American College of Greece, Athens, Greece. Curated by Eva Vaslamatzi.

Contemporary Music and Sound Art Symposium. Megaron Mousikis, Athens, Greece. Curated by Dimitris Charitos and Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos.

2023

SPAM New Media Festival, Freeway Park, Seattle, WA. Curated by Sadaf Sadri, Anna Skutley, and Laura Luna Castillo.

Altar No.3: I Choose To Remember Us Whole, project led by Daniel Alexander Jones, Henry Art Gallery and University of Washington campus, Seattle, WA. Commissioned by the Meany Center for Performing Arts.

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