Artist: noid
2021 – today
The “experimental setup for overcoming medium distances” is a reinterpretation of the whispering arc, placed in the open landscape with a radically reduced use of materials.
Parabolic antennas for satellite broadcasting reception, known as satellite dishes, characterized residential areas around the world for decades and were once the epitome of progress and communication.
As a Land Art object, the retro-futuristic appearance of “experimental setup…” refers to these technologies and the historical transformation processes associated with them.
Two decommissioned satellite dishes are aligned in such a way that two people can whisper to each other without any electronic amplification over a distance of around 100 meters while turning their backs to each other.
The pure geometry of the paraboloid enables human speech to be focused and projected over a distance that is clearly too great for normal speech – and yet it still creates the feeling that someone is whispering directly into your ear. An intimate moment is created between two people, which opens up unique communication spaces in its simultaneity of abstraction and closeness.
