taking measurements with dental flossUsing fluid media including video, installation, sound and text, Vibeke Mascini explores the sensorial scaling of abstract phenomena, with the intention to seek agency from intimacy. In long-term collaboration with scientists, engineers, government employees, and musicians she proposes the development of a conscious understanding of electric energy as a statement of interconnectedness and entanglement – between species, media and nature, matter and energy. By exploring the complex relationship between source and user, and focusing on the material implications of unlikely sources from which electricity is derived, Mascini proposes installations where memories and mysterious sensorial experiences meet the newest technology of the rapidly growing field of energy storage systems.
Her unlikely sources of electricity include a whale carcass, a melting glacier, confiscated cocaine, and human remains, which she then shapes around associations with these electric agents, and their implication and tension of their destruction in the process of becoming fuel.
Her unlikely sources of electricity include a whale carcass, a melting glacier, confiscated cocaine, and human remains, which she then shapes around associations with these electric agents, and their implication and tension of their destruction in the process of becoming fuel.