Vilde Løwenborg Blom – Etter overfloden
It’s overflowing, the tree is brimming with fruit, the fridge is filled, memories are made.
After the abundance comes a time of scarcity, did we manage to take care of what was there? Should we stop time and preserve the fruit, or should we let time pass and the fruit rot? Eat the food, or let it mold. Take care of the memories and pass them on, or repress them and eventually lose them. Strengthen the body’s scaffolding, or let it fall and remain as a ruin for someone else to play around.
Vilde Løwenborg Blom is a visual artist based in Oslo. She works with sculptures and materials that change over time, with the idea that all stages of change are equally important in the experience of the work. In the exhibition at Galleri Box, Blom is showing an installation with sculptures of boiled sugar and sea salt, and fruit preserved by her late mother.
Nolan Lem – Third Stream
This immersive, mixed-media installation recreates the acoustic environment of natural streams of water using a wide array of media formats and sensory combinations.
Babbling Brook leverages the acoustic phenomenon of simultaneous keyboard typing to emulate the soundscape of a flowing stream. Dozens of keyboards are arranged into a kind of habitat to form a physical river, accompanied by synthetic audio composed from over 70 vintage mechanical keyboard sounds typing en masse.
Powered by AI language models, each keyboard is prompted to type text related to the sound of water, which is then displayed via video monitors and projections. The keyboards converse with one another on topics related to water and sound, drawing from historical events, scientific descriptions, poetry, and philosophical musings. They “babble on” about the sound of water while inadvertently imitating or approximating the very sound they describe—a process that playfully and poetically links the word babble with its onomatopoeic function.
Nolan Lem is an American artist and researcher whose work examine sound, motion, and sensory perception using a range of materials, engineered devices, and cultural objects. Lem’s work has been featured internationally at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art Buenos Aires (MAMBA), Pioneer Works (NYC), SPOR Festival, and the Danish National Museum among others. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and a PhD from Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Nolan lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hendrik Zeitler