ASTRONOMICAL WATER

1 drop 1000 years - project by the artist Martin Messier - curator Jay Jaehoon Bang 3
1 drop 1000 years - project by the artist Martin Messier - curator Jay Jaehoon Bang 4

ASTRONOMICAL WATER

Omnipresent on our planet, water also exists in different states in the universe, notably in the form of drops in microgravity. Astronomical Water invites us to rediscover the sublime nature of water, questioning our relationship with this element, the magic it conceals and its life-giving power.

Echoing his performance 1 drop 1000 years, Martin Messier imagines an installation made up of a hundred drippers arranged on three large panels. The public is invited to move inside and outside the structure, sometimes watching the panorama, sometimes immersed in the heart of the device. Playing on the rhythms of the drops and the stroboscopic lights, the artist manipulates persistence of vision to reverse or freeze the movement of the water. The paintings follow one another: first emphasizing the gravitational effect, then giving the illusion of levitating water. Sound is reduced to its essentials: the sound of valves opening and closing. An organic rhythm that accompanies the falling drops and finally reveals their materiality.

Astronomical Water offers an immersion without a digital screen, where time seems to stretch, a contemplative and singular work that allows us to invest the world once the experience is over. 

Artistic Direction
Martin Messier

Composition
Gabriel Geneau, Martin Messier

Hardware Design
David Gardener, Alexandre Sasset-Blouin, Gabriel Geneau, Lilian Guiran

Software Design
Gabriel Geneau, Guillaume Sylvain, Martin Messier

Electronics
Maxime Damecour

Technical Support
Lilian Guiran, Gabriela Hébert

Production
14 lieux

⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ ORIGINAL MUSIC FOR THE PERFORMANCE  ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯


⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯  MACHINE MOUVEMENT MUSIQUE LUMIÈRE  ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯  MACHINE MOVEMENT MUSIC LIGHT  ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

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AUTOPORTRAIT CON FUOCO

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CYCLES

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