The project draws inspiration from Body of Water by Astrida Neimanis, who posits that water is not something external to the human body, but internal. The way we conceive of—and thus treat—water reflects how we treat ourselves, our kinships, and more-than-human kinships. Water becomes a shared, relational medium connecting bodies, environments, infrastructures, and political histories.
Starting from this perspective, RED NOISE aims to create a symbiotic bond between the human body, its fluids, and the surrounding environment, encouraging an active, visceral form of listening to the transformations occurring within and around us: from climatic and ecological shifts to social, political, and intimate dynamics. It proposes a fluid, ecological, queer, and feminist approach to exploring bodies, sexualities, and the relationships between human and non-human systems.
The central installation is a wearable and interactive bio-prosthesis made of algae-based biomaterials with embedded sensors: human and non-human sounds, bodily fluids, and environmental data are interwoven into a living, responsive system.
Visitors interact by immersing sensors into containers of local water and fluids. The collected data—conductivity, TDS, and pH—is transformed into sound via Pure Data, triggering and modulating pre-recorded voices that narrate stories of pleasure, dissent, liberation, and bodily practices. Variations in pH progressively distort the speech until it reaches a collective “orgasm noise,” a symbol of shared contamination.
At the heart of RED NOISE is contamination: not only environmental, but social and corporeal, revealing the links between stigma, control, and power. The installation invites participants to experiment with new forms of communication between fluids, bodies, environments, and one another, suggesting alternative ways of listening to water, life, and the knowledge that is often silenced.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Mz_Baltazar Lab, ALMA futura