Rapid Skye Movement - QD

the Quasi-Documentary Installation, performance, video (2021/2022) Throughout the month of October, 2021, Nacoca Ko created a liminal nest, spawning a space where multiple lines of realities converge: the physical space-time room, with its contained objects and sensors, robots and humans; the digital plane of video art interfacing between the virtual and the real; past and future space-times manifesting through dreams and memories; the surreal adaptations of machine-learning programs; the distorted perspective of livecams; and you, in your own complex reality. The work was informed by nesting with humans and entangling with birds. Those garden birds that chose to nest outside a window, as well as those surveyed through lockdown on a livecam - falcons high in the mountains that created their nest from sticks and plastic bags, and later fed city pigeons to their young. These works were hatched from my residency in October 2021 at sabl.live. Sabl exists in a secret physical location, that can be viewed 24/7 by streaming surveillance cameras online. For this residency, a woven network consisting of items brought from my studio and outside the sabl space create a nest for artistic research. Videos accumulated from my observations and re(de)construction of the world meet new AI-formed birdlike creatures. The original birds in the dataset are from Ernst Haeckel’s drawings. With Alan Ixba, GANs morph the birds and try to clone their calls. With Jo Vargas, autonomous robotic nest eggs hatch a world-song in a tempo and sonority of their own. in collaboration with : Alan Ixba Jo Vargas Cédric Muller Antoine Félix Bürcher