Vibeke Mascini
Using fluid media including installation, sound, video and text, Vibeke Mascini explores the sensorial scaling of abstract phenomena, with the intention to seek agency from intimacy. In long-term collaboration with scientists, engineers, government employees, and musicians she proposes the development of a conscious understanding of electric energy as a statement of interconnectedness and entanglement. By exploring the complex relationship between source and user, and focusing on the material implications of unlikely sources from which electricity is derived (including a whale carcass, a melting glacier, confiscated cocaine, and human remains), Mascini proposes installations where memories and mysterious sensorial experiences meet the newest technology of the rapidly growing field of energy storage systems.
Browse works by Vibeke Mascini
Vibeke Mascini
Salvage (2019)
Electricity generated from burning whale remains, Tesla lithium ion batteries, pianola, audio transcript on pianola roll
Durance of a single performance: 7 min
180 x 170 x 200 cm
Vibeke Mascini
Blind Men (2022)
(Picture by Gunnar Meier)
Installation shot at RADIUS CCA, Delft, NL.
Vibeke Mascini
Instar 6.9 kWh (2023)
(Picture by Martin-Argyroglo)
Installation view at FRAC Grand Large Dunkirk, FR
Vibeke Mascini
Peninsula (2023)
Vibeke Mascini
Ray (2022)
(Picture by Natascha Libbert)
Vibeke Mascini (1989) is a visual artist, writer, and amateur moth breeder based in Amsterdam. She has a BFA from Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and was educated through practice, collaboration and artist-in-residency programs. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and a Fine Art tutor at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Her work is part of international collections a.o.: MoMA Library, New York, FRAC île-de-france, Paris and Getty Research Centre, Los Angeles. Her publications include Silent Whale Letters (2023), published by Sternberg Press, Cloud Inverse (2017) and The Dent of Walter Umenhofer (2015).
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