NODE #1

NODE #1 exhibition at De Appel • 20 April—20 May Mehraneh Atashi, Samson Young

Affective stimulation is often registered in terms of an event with a cause and effect, or tension finding release. Less perceptible
are states of prolonged anxiety that exist as a humdrum sense of foreboding. How do we account for these mundane forces that are neither forecasted nor have a clear source? How are modern humans shaped by tensions that find no release? These are questions raised by Mehraneh Atashi and Samson Young in the Brace for Impact exhibition. Both artists foreground technological processes that often happen in the background, as invisible conversations between machines. Samson Young’s What the lighthouses taught me sound drawings record a ten-day journey on board a commercial cargo ship sailing from Port Klang, Malaysia to Busan, South Korea. Young’s visualisations of human, industrial, and planetary noises are not only an archive of a maritime soundscape but also generate questions
on the nature of listening, reading, and translating. Mehraneh Atashi presents an expanded version of her installation Entropy Pump. The heart of this work is an electrical system that translates latent energy from detritus into light
and sound effects. The installation is itself
 a circuit — a feedback-loop of organic and inorganic material that transforms raw information into measurable data. In excess of materials and transmissions, the work resembles a haunted cosmic landscape, one bursting
with transmutations of life forces.

( BRACE FOR IMPACT )

  Teun Grondman - De Appel, BRACE FOR IMPACT, Node #1, Mehraneh Atashi and Samson Young, 20 April – 20 May