High frequency sound waves propagate through a water-filled cylinder, prompting naturally diffused air bubbles to implode. While tracing the motion imparted by sound waves, these implosions are accompanied by shock waves, jet formations, temperatures as high as are found on the Sun, and conjecturably, even quantum tunneling. Implosion Chamber is a new exploration of the multifold phenomenon of acoustic cavitation, which the duo has been pursuing for over a decade since the creation of Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory. All acoustic vibrations generate oscillating vacuums. Initially conceived as an environment for visually perceiving sound in three dimensions, Implosion Chamber plunges into the paradoxical origin of all vibrations: the ubiquitous vacuum. The trillion-fold energy density amplification that occurs during acoustic cavitation could only be possible by tapping into the unbridled power of emptiness. What appears to be empty, motionless and infinitesimal, is upon closer inspection an inexhaustible sea of energy.
Dmitry Gelfand & Evelina Domnitch
Implosion chamber
Hours and dates
02/11 - 11/10 | 10:00 to 6:00 pm
The place
Exhibition - Galerie du Beffroi
Language
English
The exhibition
Implosion chamber
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Dmitry Gelfand & Evelina Domnitch
Dmitry Gelfand (b.1974, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Evelina Domnitch (b. 1972, Minsk, Belarus) create sensory immersion environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with philosophy. Gelfand and Domnitch use wave phenomena to investigate questions of perception and infinity. They research these topics because science, which serves as the basis for contemporary thought, cannot fully explain how consciousness works. Domnitch and Gelfand’s installations have done away with ‘fixed’ art, such as recordings, and use continuously transforming phenomena instead. These phenomena take place directly in front of the observer and often serve to vastly extend the observer’s senses. Gelfand and Domnitch present their works “Implosion Chamber” and “Photonic Wind: shining into a vacuum chamber”. “Implosion Chamber” consists of high frequency sound waves going through a water-filled cylinder, causing naturally diffused air bubbles to implode. While revealing the motion imparted by sound waves, these implosions are accompanied by shock waves, supersonic liquid jet formations, temperatures as high as are found on the Sun, and conjecturably, quantum vacuum radiation. In the installation “Photonic Wind”, an Yves Klein blue laser beam levitates and propels diamond micropowder in a vacuum chamber. Forming starry jets and languorous vortical clouds, the diamond dust evokes the flow of light.