Multiple Vortex Tornado

The installation could be summarized with the notion that, as a visitor leafs through the pages of a book, he finds himself in the middle of a tornado. For this, a special book stand was designed with a sensor which registers the draft of the air that occurs while one flips through the pages. While leafing through the book the visitor can interactively create the acoustic illusion of a tornado, as the sensor is controlled by software developed by the artist, and the output is fed to several speakers spread throughout the room. Thus this art work can create a situation that not only provides an audio-visual experience, but also a transformation of the architectonic space itself. The concept of generating a tornado is dedicated, through the distortion of norms, more to the idea of creating consciousness of space, and less to the idea of producing a reevaluation of the ambient air. The sound installation, which "enacts" the wind of a tornado, effects a minimal gesture that changes the appearance and the experience of the space. The artist has reinterpreted the everyday act of leafing through a book so that the book, normally known simply as a container for text, can itself become responsible for a tangible, narrative event. Support by : The CINTAS Fundation fellowship, U.S., 2012, CONACULTA National Council for Culture and the Arts, México, 2013 Greusslich Contemporary, Berlin, 2013