Orbit Weaver
90 mins discontinuous Performance in zero gravity; video; aluminum, 3D prints from Formlab, magnet, nylon string, motors and electronics
Variable size
2017
Gravity anchors all existence on Earth. It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is everywhere and unending, for most of the universe, vast empty space dominates, leaving us free from gravity’s tether. Is the weightless state a moment of true autonomy or does the ungrounded body simply lose control?
In June 1965, NASA astronaut Ed White stepped out of his space capsule and walked in space for the first time. Out in the vastness, he was tethered to the space station, as if a child attached to the mother through the umbilical cord. In this weightless state, the Earth’s body loses its priori and control. If we take a glance at the universe, it is inevitable that we question the possibilities and seek alternatives. Is it time to expect an interplanetary body, a body free from the grasps of gravity?
Inspired by the three-dimensional mobility of arachnids, Orbit Weaver uses her OW-BODY hand-held device to regain control of the body and move freely through a weightless space. The device shoots the string out with a magnet on the tip. Once the magnet is attached to the surrounding surfaces, the device will rewind and drag the wearer with minimal impetus due to the zero-gravity environment. With the apparatus, the wearer will be transformed into a “spider woman”, weaving her web in space.
The first performance of Orbit Weaver was on November 17th, 2017 in the parabolic flight operated by Zero-G Corp. During each zero-gravity period(~20 seconds), Orbit Weaver performed the shooting and winding of strings and drag her body forward.
Orbit Weaver
90 mins discontinuous Performance in zero gravity; video; aluminum, 3D prints from Formlab, magnet, nylon string, motors and electronics
Variable size
2017
Gravity anchors all existence on Earth. It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is everywhere and unending, for most of the universe, vast empty space dominates, leaving us free from gravity’s tether. Is the weightless state a moment of true autonomy or does the ungrounded body simply lose control?
In June 1965, NASA astronaut Ed White stepped out of his space capsule and walked in space for the first time. Out in the vastness, he was tethered to the space station, as if a child attached to the mother through the umbilical cord. In this weightless state, the Earth’s body loses its priori and control. If we take a glance at the universe, it is inevitable that we question the possibilities and seek alternatives. Is it time to expect an interplanetary body, a body free from the grasps of gravity?
Inspired by the three-dimensional mobility of arachnids, Orbit Weaver uses her OW-BODY hand-held device to regain control of the body and move freely through a weightless space. The device shoots the string out with a magnet on the tip. Once the magnet is attached to the surrounding surfaces, the device will rewind and drag the wearer with minimal impetus due to the zero-gravity environment. With the apparatus, the wearer will be transformed into a “spider woman”, weaving her web in space.
The first performance of Orbit Weaver was on November 17th, 2017 in the parabolic flight operated by Zero-G Corp. During each zero-gravity period(~20 seconds), Orbit Weaver performed the shooting and winding of strings and drag her body forward.
Orbit Weaver
90 mins discontinuous Performance in zero gravity; video; aluminum, 3D prints from Formlab, magnet, nylon string, motors and electronics
Variable size
2017
Gravity anchors all existence on Earth. It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is everywhere and unending, for most of the universe, vast empty space dominates, leaving us free from gravity’s tether. Is the weightless state a moment of true autonomy or does the ungrounded body simply lose control?
In June 1965, NASA astronaut Ed White stepped out of his space capsule and walked in space for the first time. Out in the vastness, he was tethered to the space station, as if a child attached to the mother through the umbilical cord. In this weightless state, the Earth’s body loses its priori and control. If we take a glance at the universe, it is inevitable that we question the possibilities and seek alternatives. Is it time to expect an interplanetary body, a body free from the grasps of gravity?
Inspired by the three-dimensional mobility of arachnids, Orbit Weaver uses her OW-BODY hand-held device to regain control of the body and move freely through a weightless space. The device shoots the string out with a magnet on the tip. Once the magnet is attached to the surrounding surfaces, the device will rewind and drag the wearer with minimal impetus due to the zero-gravity environment. With the apparatus, the wearer will be transformed into a “spider woman”, weaving her web in space.
The first performance of Orbit Weaver was on November 17th, 2017 in the parabolic flight operated by Zero-G Corp. During each zero-gravity period(~20 seconds), Orbit Weaver performed the shooting and winding of strings and drag her body forward.
Ground Station
LCD screen installation, digital video loop, UV-led print, dye sublimation print, metal
Variable size
2020-2021
NOAA-15 satellite was sent to orbit on May 13th, 1998. It was planned for a two-year-long mission, but now it has been functioning on the sun-synchronous orbit for twenty-three years and four months, 808 kilometers from the earth. Satellites carry a vintage coding and compiling system: they send out signals according to pre-programmed, never-evolving mechanisms. Meanwhile, only very simple antennae and computer techniques will be required to decipher satellite signals nowadays.Due to the outbreak of the corona virus, the world’s population found themselves under lockdown of an unprecedented scale. As individuals who belong to numerous social groups, we suddenly have no choice but to cut off all communication with each other. The pandemic has overturned daily life and registered new spatial and temporal positions in our confined domestic spaces.
When the satellites pass overhead, their trans- missions can be received on the ground. Translated from radio into sound as the signals are received, each line of the image can be heard as a ping, its consistent, musical tempo a distinctive feature of the FM broadcast. The noise and glitches in the images were caused by artist sometimes missing the direction of a satellite, or a nearby building getting in the way of the horizon. Each image received was uniquely captured over the ten to fifteen minutes when one of the satellites was in a direct line-of- sight to the artist.
The antenna was pointed to an invisible planet, the clouds, ocean and land on the deciphered image were disrupted by noisy points from time to time. They became fragile and ephemeral. NOAA-15 is still transmitting signals, orbiting from the north pole to the south, over and over again. While the listener on the other end may have changed in the fluctuating histories.
Ground Station
LCD screen installation, digital video loop, UV-led print, dye sublimation print, metal
Variable size
2020-2021
NOAA-15 satellite was sent to orbit on May 13th, 1998. It was planned for a two-year-long mission, but now it has been functioning on the sun-synchronous orbit for twenty-three years and four months, 808 kilometers from the earth. Satellites carry a vintage coding and compiling system: they send out signals according to pre-programmed, never-evolving mechanisms. Meanwhile, only very simple antennae and computer techniques will be required to decipher satellite signals nowadays.Due to the outbreak of the corona virus, the world’s population found themselves under lockdown of an unprecedented scale. As individuals who belong to numerous social groups, we suddenly have no choice but to cut off all communication with each other. The pandemic has overturned daily life and registered new spatial and temporal positions in our confined domestic spaces.
When the satellites pass overhead, their trans- missions can be received on the ground. Translated from radio into sound as the signals are received, each line of the image can be heard as a ping, its consistent, musical tempo a distinctive feature of the FM broadcast. The noise and glitches in the images were caused by artist sometimes missing the direction of a satellite, or a nearby building getting in the way of the horizon. Each image received was uniquely captured over the ten to fifteen minutes when one of the satellites was in a direct line-of- sight to the artist.
The antenna was pointed to an invisible planet, the clouds, ocean and land on the deciphered image were disrupted by noisy points from time to time. They became fragile and ephemeral. NOAA-15 is still transmitting signals, orbiting from the north pole to the south, over and over again. While the listener on the other end may have changed in the fluctuating histories.
Ground Station
LCD screen installation, digital video loop, UV-led print, dye sublimation print, metal
Variable size
2020-2021
NOAA-15 satellite was sent to orbit on May 13th, 1998. It was planned for a two-year-long mission, but now it has been functioning on the sun-synchronous orbit for twenty-three years and four months, 808 kilometers from the earth. Satellites carry a vintage coding and compiling system: they send out signals according to pre-programmed, never-evolving mechanisms. Meanwhile, only very simple antennae and computer techniques will be required to decipher satellite signals nowadays.Due to the outbreak of the corona virus, the world’s population found themselves under lockdown of an unprecedented scale. As individuals who belong to numerous social groups, we suddenly have no choice but to cut off all communication with each other. The pandemic has overturned daily life and registered new spatial and temporal positions in our confined domestic spaces.
When the satellites pass overhead, their trans- missions can be received on the ground. Translated from radio into sound as the signals are received, each line of the image can be heard as a ping, its consistent, musical tempo a distinctive feature of the FM broadcast. The noise and glitches in the images were caused by artist sometimes missing the direction of a satellite, or a nearby building getting in the way of the horizon. Each image received was uniquely captured over the ten to fifteen minutes when one of the satellites was in a direct line-of- sight to the artist.
The antenna was pointed to an invisible planet, the clouds, ocean and land on the deciphered image were disrupted by noisy points from time to time. They became fragile and ephemeral. NOAA-15 is still transmitting signals, orbiting from the north pole to the south, over and over again. While the listener on the other end may have changed in the fluctuating histories.
Ground Station
LCD screen installation, digital video loop, UV-led print, dye sublimation print, metal
Variable size
2020-2021
NOAA-15 satellite was sent to orbit on May 13th, 1998. It was planned for a two-year-long mission, but now it has been functioning on the sun-synchronous orbit for twenty-three years and four months, 808 kilometers from the earth. Satellites carry a vintage coding and compiling system: they send out signals according to pre-programmed, never-evolving mechanisms. Meanwhile, only very simple antennae and computer techniques will be required to decipher satellite signals nowadays.Due to the outbreak of the corona virus, the world’s population found themselves under lockdown of an unprecedented scale. As individuals who belong to numerous social groups, we suddenly have no choice but to cut off all communication with each other. The pandemic has overturned daily life and registered new spatial and temporal positions in our confined domestic spaces.
When the satellites pass overhead, their trans- missions can be received on the ground. Translated from radio into sound as the signals are received, each line of the image can be heard as a ping, its consistent, musical tempo a distinctive feature of the FM broadcast. The noise and glitches in the images were caused by artist sometimes missing the direction of a satellite, or a nearby building getting in the way of the horizon. Each image received was uniquely captured over the ten to fifteen minutes when one of the satellites was in a direct line-of- sight to the artist.
The antenna was pointed to an invisible planet, the clouds, ocean and land on the deciphered image were disrupted by noisy points from time to time. They became fragile and ephemeral. NOAA-15 is still transmitting signals, orbiting from the north pole to the south, over and over again. While the listener on the other end may have changed in the fluctuating histories.
Ground Station
LCD screen installation, digital video loop, UV-led print, dye sublimation print, metal
Variable size
2020-2021
NOAA-15 satellite was sent to orbit on May 13th, 1998. It was planned for a two-year-long mission, but now it has been functioning on the sun-synchronous orbit for twenty-three years and four months, 808 kilometers from the earth. Satellites carry a vintage coding and compiling system: they send out signals according to pre-programmed, never-evolving mechanisms. Meanwhile, only very simple antennae and computer techniques will be required to decipher satellite signals nowadays.Due to the outbreak of the corona virus, the world’s population found themselves under lockdown of an unprecedented scale. As individuals who belong to numerous social groups, we suddenly have no choice but to cut off all communication with each other. The pandemic has overturned daily life and registered new spatial and temporal positions in our confined domestic spaces.
When the satellites pass overhead, their trans- missions can be received on the ground. Translated from radio into sound as the signals are received, each line of the image can be heard as a ping, its consistent, musical tempo a distinctive feature of the FM broadcast. The noise and glitches in the images were caused by artist sometimes missing the direction of a satellite, or a nearby building getting in the way of the horizon. Each image received was uniquely captured over the ten to fifteen minutes when one of the satellites was in a direct line-of- sight to the artist.
The antenna was pointed to an invisible planet, the clouds, ocean and land on the deciphered image were disrupted by noisy points from time to time. They became fragile and ephemeral. NOAA-15 is still transmitting signals, orbiting from the north pole to the south, over and over again. While the listener on the other end may have changed in the fluctuating histories.
Ground Station
LCD screen installation, digital video loop, UV-led print, dye sublimation print, metal
Variable size
2020-2021
NOAA-15 satellite was sent to orbit on May 13th, 1998. It was planned for a two-year-long mission, but now it has been functioning on the sun-synchronous orbit for twenty-three years and four months, 808 kilometers from the earth. Satellites carry a vintage coding and compiling system: they send out signals according to pre-programmed, never-evolving mechanisms. Meanwhile, only very simple antennae and computer techniques will be required to decipher satellite signals nowadays.Due to the outbreak of the corona virus, the world’s population found themselves under lockdown of an unprecedented scale. As individuals who belong to numerous social groups, we suddenly have no choice but to cut off all communication with each other. The pandemic has overturned daily life and registered new spatial and temporal positions in our confined domestic spaces.
When the satellites pass overhead, their trans- missions can be received on the ground. Translated from radio into sound as the signals are received, each line of the image can be heard as a ping, its consistent, musical tempo a distinctive feature of the FM broadcast. The noise and glitches in the images were caused by artist sometimes missing the direction of a satellite, or a nearby building getting in the way of the horizon. Each image received was uniquely captured over the ten to fifteen minutes when one of the satellites was in a direct line-of- sight to the artist.
The antenna was pointed to an invisible planet, the clouds, ocean and land on the deciphered image were disrupted by noisy points from time to time. They became fragile and ephemeral. NOAA-15 is still transmitting signals, orbiting from the north pole to the south, over and over again. While the listener on the other end may have changed in the fluctuating histories.
