Sensitive Superpositions

“The sky is not something far away: it is something all around you. The weather is never far from you either: it craves your intimacy. Air, pressure, heat and humidity penetrate and rewrite your autonomic and unconscious nervous system, influencing your thoughts and feelings, corroding the metals of a harddrive reading and writing in clicks inscribing yourself as a person on the network as you move on and offline. When you really think about it, everything belongs to nature: Plastic, silicon, toy dogs, genetically modified corn. What you typically think of as nature–organic, carbon-based materials and cyclical time – is a reflection of your own body, which is only one of many bodies in the natural world. Let’s unpack this.”

Sensitive Superpositions is a landscape that is as technological as it is natural: light and sound interact to transform perception, using raw vocalizations to bring warmth and vulnerability to a seemingly cold and inhospitable world. What does it mean to meet a digital system on an emotional level? Color, light and circular movement are key to loosening knots of perception, creating an atmosphere, a physical experience in a digital universe. Sensitive Superpositions combines the 2 of 5psychosomatic power of orbital, circular and looping light patterns in combination with the tactile intimacy of whispered vocals and verbal suggestion. The work of Gee and Molinari is characterized by slowly rolling landscapes of light sculptures, informed by Molinari’s research into the encounter between natural light and the earth’s atmosphere, as well as Gee’s smart and self-aware sensual voice, claiming to be “your mother, father, lover and best friend.” The sensual minimalism of the collaboration proposes new technologies of attention, psychosomatic loops, and the affect of information in contemporary digital life, working the subconscious in an attentive and receptive state through a seductive “tech poetry.”