A fever dream of overheated satellites and sensing instruments struggling against their own thermal confusion
Within Contaminated Circuits is a fever dream of planetary tangles. Heat is not a symptom; it is the signal, the message, the uninvited guest that refuses to be ignored. It contaminates every body, human, machine, celestial. Even the coldest atoms in the vacuum of space are involved in circuits of exchange, locked in an endless conversation of heat, radiation and loss.
Within Contaminated Circuits listens to heat, not as an inconvenience or interference, but as a story: a pulsation, a scandalous intimacy between things that should never have touched. A body retains heat; a planet exhales heat; a satellite, seemingly immune, betrays its fragility.
In a world of fever, climate fever, technological fever, bodies burning from the consequences of extraction, we cannot pretend that measurement is neutral. To measure is to touch. To touch is to be altered. Within Contaminated Circuits stages this entanglement in a lesson that is less instruction and more incantation: a fever dream of overheated satellites and sensing instruments struggling against their own thermal confusion.
Temperature is not passive; it is a force of connection, of contamination, of rejection. Heat binds us to each other, to the atmosphere, to malfunctioning machines lost in orbit. the satellite does not fail because it is weak. It fails because it is alive in the way all things are alive: vulnerable, stuck, destroyed by the very conditions that sustain it.