Atmosphere
2011
“Planes of light appearing at the verge of seeing and a completely darkened space in which vision, hearing and touch are probed at the thresholds of perception are two of the experiences awaiting viewers in Chris Salter’s Atmosphere, an exhibition bringing together several sensorially-based, room-sized audio-visual-tactile installations. Atmosphere is a total sensory environment combining coloured light, sound, infrared heat and haze. Over a 20 minute cycle, sudden bursts of light, sound and heat transform the main FOFA gallery into a synesthetic space fluctuating between dense overload and contemplative reflection. Exploring what architecture critic Mark Wigley calls “an architecture of atmosphere,” a sensuous climate of ephemeral yet, tangibly felt effects envelop visitors, probing the ways in which the just perceivable opens up our experience of noise and order, sense and sensation.”
Atmosphere was a complete multi-sensorial installation inside the Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery and was exhibited from January to February 2011. It brought together many artists from different disciplines, myself included, in an effort to highlight the cross-discipline nature of research, and investigate cross-modal sense perception.
Credits: LabXmodal: Chris Salter + Marije Baalman, Elio Bidinost, Shannon Collis, Fernando Leppe, Harry Smoak, Robert Tomes, Matthieu Tremblay, Tobias Ziegler
