VoxAEther has recently been on exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane and as part of the Asian Art Biennale at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan. The work consists of four laser cut sculptural forms based upon the morphology and symmetry of microscopic Radiolaria, countless billions of which live in our oceans. At their nucleus each work contains Theremin electronics activated by the radial antennae that encircle the objects.
3D model, Cylinder form_01.
3D model, Torus form_01.
Notebook sketch.
Cylinder form_02 under construction at GOMA.
Cylinder form_01 detail.
Installation detail, GOMA.
Installation detail, GOMA.
Zoe interacts.
Nigel’s floortalk at the Asian Art Biennale.
Curators at play.
National Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan.
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A phenomenon by definition is inextricably linked to the possession of a sensory body. Naturally it is our habitual (and inevitable) use of the body’s perceptual horizons as indexical mechanisms which have created topologies of embodied and disembodied events or thresholds of the tangible and the intangible. As any foray, beyond a world bounded by Newtonian physics will demonstrate, our perceptually framed understanding of spatial and temporal reality fails to recognise objects and events which refuse to conform to the scale and velocity of the Procrastes bed which the frame of our body has become…....
Nigel Helyer 1992, An Unrequited Space, in Working in Public.