revision (2020)
metal, microcontroller, stepper motor, gear, rechargeable lead batteries, lacquer, spruce wood (variable), duration: 25 min, loop, video projection: 4k, sound, 13 min, loop

Revision presents a choreographed machine set in dialogue with its performative origin. At the center of the installation is a wooden batten, carved into a needle-like form, moving in circular patterns across the floor. Its tip drags along the surface, producing vibrations, sounds, and subtle acoustic textures.
The machine performs a motion that was initially developed through the artist’s body. The transition from human to machine is not seamless—it is abrupt. While the body once explored spatial and material possibilities through touch, rhythm, and resonance—literally sensing sound—the machine follows a programmed trajectory with unwavering rigor. Yet precisely through this rigidity, it seems to acquire a kind of sensitivity. Although it lacks physical perception, it achieves a precision beyond the capacity of the human body. At times, it moves so finely across the surface that even the slightest unevenness—just a few millimeters of slope—translates into vibration.
Where the body actively generates and receives vibration, the machine becomes a responsive system: vibration emerges not from intention, but from the resistance of the floor. In this sense, the machine acts as a new body—one that mediates between the artist and the material. The machine becomes an extension of expression, one shaped by its own logic, and in doing so, it acquires an almost anthropomorphic presence.
The installation is presented in two adjacent rooms, connected by two open passages. In one space, a video work documents the earlier bodily performance; in the other, the machine continues the movement autonomously. Sounds and movements from both spaces occasionally overlap. These overlaps are not pre-planned but arise spontaneously, creating an unstable choreography of image and sound. Visitors are drawn back and forth—sometimes guided by motion, sometimes by acoustics. Moments of comparison emerge continuously, as chance and intention begin to blur.