An Amalgam Loop is a sympoietic symphony, an intricate apparatus where limestone, vinegar, and sound weave a story of kinship across the boundaries of life and matter.
Rooted in Fritjof Capra’s critique of the mechanistic paradigm, this evolving installation rejects hierarchical binaries of active and inert, living and non-living, instead proposing a world where all matter vibrates with agency and relationality.
At the heart of An Amalgam Loop lies an elemental encounter: limestone suspended in a vat of vinegar. This chemical communion triggers the crystallization of calcium atoms, a process unfolding in real time like a geological performance. The metamorphosis of these atoms—their dissolution, recombination, and crystallization—translates into a living soundscape, a feedback loop in which the vibrations of material transformation sustain the system itself. Here, the installation is not a passive object but a collaborating subject, breathing through its interactions.
Over the course of the exhibition, the loop grows, shifts, and crystallizes until its own dissolution, reminding us that all cycles, like all kinships, are finite yet generative. An Amalgam Loop is a space in flux, where non-living matter reveals its own subjectivity, resisting the decontextualization and exploitation that define modernity’s reductionist gaze.
An Amalgam Loop amplifies the voices of calcium ions and atomic transformations, inviting us into an empathetic relationship with what is often deemed “passive.” It asks: What if we listened to rocks? What if we recognized the agency embedded in every atom? In this symphony of matter, limestone is not an instrument but a partner; the soundscape is not an outcome but a collaborator; and the installation is not a machine but a multi-species co-creation.
An Amalgam Loop opens a portal into geological subjectivity, teaching us to embrace a world where aliveness is not a binary but a spectrum—a shared dance of vibrations, where even stones hum with life..