Sans Titre: Material Phases of Suns, Venice Edition.
Real-time, long form, digital projection. Duration: 168 days, six real-time Revolutions with our Sun. 2.3 x 4.14 meters
Palazzo Mora. Venice, Italy
21 MAY - 21 NOV 2021
Invited at the Occasion of 17th Venice Architecture Biennale by the European Culture Centre.
Exhibition Website: Untitled Art Object
Sans Titre / Material Phases of Suns continues the Sans Titre project as an encounter of the material universe as one cosmological scale. The mass of the untitled art object is not a summary for Corday; its mass is a duration of the material universe, specific and inseparable. This immersive long-form simulation projects a field of particles developing the ITER-embedded art object turning in real-time with our Sun.
Sans Titre’s helical fastening structure completes one helical thread or rotation every 26.24 earth days. The developing composition releases the ocular gaze at the very edge of perception demanding fuller awareness as the simulation, the artist, the visitor, the tokamak, each embark an experience of our Sun. This work follows a shared structure—the helical twist—within Sans Titre’s fastening surface, the magnetic fields of the Sun, and toroidal pulse of ITER.
Corday’s practice as a sculptor uses matter as an atomic clay of time, space, existence. The foundries of Sans Titre metals are ancient stellar furnaces gone billions of years continuing works of its dross and slag in an exacting immaculate vernacular, what Corday terms an ‘elemental architecture.’ This elemental architecture forms generations of suns and the universal palette of elements. The artist conceives the untitled art object not only a material moment between birth and death of suns, but as a durational form of the stars, a material phase of suns.
We are the witnessing, participating generation of a sun being built on Earth. The Sans Titre project places Art as the final global contributor to ITER joining its thirty-five nation devotion. Please follow this project in its evolving conversation between suns.
Artist, Concept, Sound: Christine Corday
Technical Directions, Design, Sound: Stephen Mangiat
Project Advisors: GMUNK, Aaron Koblin
Production Design: Chris Jones
Website: Jarred Grimes
Exhibition Curation: ECC
Special Thanks: Laban Coblentz, ITER; Mark Uhran, ITER; Shira Tabachnikoff, ITER; Mark Cheung, LMSAL; and Christopher Powers.
A sensory encounter of mass through duration
Untitled Art Object turns in duet with our Sun. If placed directly in-front of our Sun, one’s peripheral vision, one’s entire sensory self, would be absorbed by its scale. The Sun would look motionless despite it is moving [and very fast]. Our star, the Sun, is 109 x wider than Earth and though ‘rotating’ over a mile a second - one revolution takes 28 Earth days. Sans Titre / Material Phases of Suns places the visitor in direct sensory contact with this scale—an encounter of mass through duration. The digital particles this real-time, long form work optically move every 8 minutes. What seems absolutely motionless is moving at scales beyond momentary comprehension. Corday however states the response then is to leave the encounter with momentary ability to experience such scales. Any duration of time spent with this work is a duration with the scales of our Sun and retracing the form Sans Titre materially embedded with our terrestrial sun on Earth, ITER.
