Unstable Interior - a collaboration with Lyoudmila Milanova at Octopus Gallery, the Largo, Sofia /kinetic installation, wood, canvas, light bulb, motors, electronics, router /2023

A cubical room (2.5x2.5x2.5 meters) levitating few centimeters above the floor. Entering it one notices the vibration of the walls and ceiling, giving a sense of vertigo in some more sensitive vestibular systems. Seen from behind the walls the whole cube appears suspended in a slightly larger room. The mechanism and electronics driving it become visible. Live data from a seismic station is being fed through a router into motors, which move the whole construction, amplifying the constantly present seismic noise from tectonic and human activity, suddenly turning this indistinct phenomenon into something physically perceivable…