gloam

What is created is an acoustic threshold space—a zone of the in-between, of transition, in which past, present, and future oscillate in fragmented temporality. The starting point is a personal confrontation with Inferno—not as a closed narrative, but as a vibrating structure of voice, echoes, and incomprehensibility.

The intervention points to a rupture: of language, of orientation, of the possibility of decision. Just as in the narrative of Inferno, a figure speaks at the limits of comprehensibility, GLOAM evokes an auditory terrain that does not form a narrative, but instead a state of stasis. The impossibility of indecision is negotiated here as an acoustic space—as frequencies that do not allow linear storytelling, but rather amplify the sensation of eternal entrapment.

A person adds a visual trace into this echo chamber, inscribing, over the duration of five hours, the sentence:

held in a permanent moment.

The topology of GLOAM can be read as a premonition of Limbo—not as a mythological place, but as a phenomenon of the present: the constant scrolling, the algorithmic circling without decision, the stasis in an endless loop of possibilities. I transforms this state into sound, making audible what blurs in the overlap of digital and physical realities: the moment of suspension, the delay as its own terrain.

GLOAM hovers in repetition, in imprecision, at a threshold...

What happens when language fails—when decisions are left suspended? When orientation is lost? What remains when the only movement is oscillation?

A space that does not define itself, but continually eludes. A frequency that carries no clear message, but presence.

Sound Piece

(10 minutes Loop increasing low frequencies over time span of 5 hours)

Hornspeaker, chain, carpet,

Person, written wall text (held in a permanent moment)

Installationview

@ve.sch artspace vienna

03/2025