Steel, magnets, acrylic, digital prints on glassine and tracing paper. 

700 x 700 x 1200 mm 

Apparatus I is a site-responsive installation exploring the architecture of digital and institutional systems, and how these structures reveal, conceal, organize, and distort information. Consisting of a fixed steel framework and interchangeable image-panels secured magnetically within standardized A-series paper-sized frames, the installation functions like a dynamic visual filing system. This adaptability invites continuous reconfiguration and reinterpretation of its visual narratives, echoing the fragmented, rhizomatic, and evolving nature of digital communication and collective memory.

 

Named after the scholarly tradition of the apparatus criticus, a textual system documenting variant historical manuscripts, Apparatus I draws attention to how institutional narratives are often presented as seamless or singular, concealing disruption and manipulation with a unified facade. Semi-translucent paper partially obscures a system of ghostly prints depicting infrastructural scaffolding, creating a dialogue between illumination and obfuscation, stability and precarity, clarity and noise. Acrylic panels and steel beams enclose the installation, momentarily offering the illusion of coherence amid fragmentation. 

 

I would like to incorporate images drawn from my archive of digital infrastructure to emphasize the instability of digital transmission and storage systems. I’ve included documentation of a performance-like reconfiguration of the structure as a way to explore the performative aspect of these modules.