OPEN STUDIOS SPRING
22.03.2025
For La Becque’s first event of 2025, Maria W Horn & Mats Erlandsson presented a selection of works at the Temple Saint-Théodule in La Tour-de-Peilz, primarily The Spectral Organ – a suite of works for four-handed organ and electronics, and an organ extension of the generative sound environment Sju Pelare for precision tuned digital oscillators.
Jenna Sutela & Martti Kalliala presented a piece of music with aeolian motifs. Installed in a small chalet by the lake, the work is a collage of Sutela’s flute, wind machine and vocal recordings, processed and reconfigured by Kalliala. Fffffffflutes explores perception and reality through foley effects, onomatopoeia, smokey beatz and an unstable vibe.
Umlilo presented Non-Binary Hearts, a 30-minute film exploring the intersection of human and artificial intelligence through music, storytelling, and visuals. Each song/chapter in the film delves into themes ranging from robots, and digital twins to aliens and love, blending AI-generated voice, face and body cloning, and metaverse avatars across interdimensional worlds.
Charlie Engman has chosen to present his three books: MOM (2020), a longstanding collaborative project with his mother that explores representation and intimacy; Hello Chaos: A Love Story – The Disorder of Seeing and Being Seen (2024), a genre-defying critical theory book examining contemporary visual culture; and Cursed (2024), an artist’s monograph created entirely with generative AI.
Malak Helmy presented …one more time (but with conviction), a work in progress composed of several parts. Through these mediums, Malak Helmy studies the works of a series of Arab thinkers and artists from the 1940s to the 80s that she considers as offering cosmotechnical proposals–a term taken from the Chinese philosopher of technology Yuk Hui to mean anti-universalist and pluralist concepts of technology from beyond the West that are rooted in technical relationships to the cosmos.
Open Studios Spring 2025, La Becque, photo Aurélien Haslebacher