Tuomas A. Laitinen’s artistic practice is situated in the boundaries that separate species from technology. Working with video, sound and light, as well as chemical and microbial processes, Laitinen explores how interspecies aware-ness and knowledge is formed in porous systems. The installation, specifically tailored to RADIUS, acts as a kind of symbiotic contact zone that allows viewers to experience life forms through microbiological processes, alchemical illustra-tions, speculative glass shapes, moving image, and ultrasonic audio.3The video projection descends into a world where lifeforms are entangled with geologic formations and technological devices. Chemical reactions and res-idues transform into landscapes and the microscopic becomes enlarged. Past ecosystems are slowly metamorphosing, looking at the possibilities of repair and the quest for a future amid the remnants. GI-rendered lenses distort and refract the images, as different ways of knowing emerge from the various layers.The multichannel ultrasonic audio installation correlates with the video projection. The audio is composed of sonic references to containers, cocoons, shelters, and holders. It also features sounds of cooking processes such as boiling, simmering, melting, cracking, and sounds of internal bodily functions. In addition to this, a spectral voice utters words on the climate crises that we face in our time. As a result of ultrasonic quality of the installation, it feels as if these sounds originate from within our bodies.Altogether, Laitinen presents an immersive space that constantly fluc- tuates, a space in which we can experience symbiotic contact through the senses. Experiencing the installation is an exercise of deep listening, where repeating chants and sounds from different speculative ecosystems are entangled and disentangled again and again.
