INSANIA
INSANIA
An interactive light and sound installation that, through the materialization of an automaton, renounces the pleasure of noise music and the operator's protagonism, reinterpreting the image by alluding to its erratic, glitchy state. It embraces the broken, the fractured, the mental state where the lines between reality and imagination cease to exist, a state often called "madness." A magical act, a dreamlike journey, a connection between worldly carnality and the transcendence of consciousness, the abrupt expansion of symbolic space… through rupture…
Unreason as the ultimate foundation of reason.
Upon entering it, it becomes evident how BEING/BEING PRESENT modifies the parameters of EXISTENCE and CREATION. The participant, by introducing error, creates chaos and a breakdown in communication patterns between the device's modules interacting with the audience. This generates an aberration in the AV (Virtual Experience) and in the participant's expectations, which OPENS a new, higher-order symbolic field.
INSANIA, winner of the grant from the Barcelona City Council, within the framework of Barcelona Production 2025
Solo Exhibition: Heidi Valda
Exhibition hall: "La Capella" / Barcelona - Spain
Exposure time: July 17 - September 28, 2025
ACTIVATIONS OF THE WORK WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EXHIBITION
PERFORMANCE / VAL DEL RAVAL
Insanity embraces what is broken, the crack that dwells in the (un)conscious. It is the rupture, the line that unites the real and the imaginary. It is an intimate, profound, harrowing, violent, sweet, and delicate process. Insanity is humanity.
The installation exists in constant mutation. The machine operates with a body that interacts with it using light-projecting devices. The organically moving light projects luminous rays that, through the photocell, generate a symphony of noise.
The body presents itself to the machine from a place of extimacy: it plays, rejoices, cries, laughs, and eroticizes it by activating and deactivating the devices through an (in)human movement. This bond generates its own language, a monstrous communication of noises and flashes between the mechanized humanity in the body and the humanity applied to the machine. Insanity materializes as the driving force behind a ritual that seeks to illuminate the seemingly invisible recesses of the mind.
Guest Performer: VAL DEL RAVAL
LIGHT JOCKEY B2B LIGHT JOCKEY
Thinking of light as a vanishing point leads us to accept the temporal space of our subconscious as the asymmetrical axis of this strange topology of being. Because madness, understood not as an illness but as a fracture in our habitual perception of the world, reveals brief, intangible glimpses of a different truth. It is not only shadow: it is also light, a light that cannot be looked at directly. When sanity breaks, like a broken mirror, the reflection does not disappear: it multiplies. And in that fracture, the light escapes. It is a kind of raw revelation: as if, with the collapse of the logical structure, it becomes possible to see what was previously beyond the reach of our gaze. This light is also beauty; it speaks of the limit, of what filters through when the mind ceases to obey.
In Insania, speaking in luminescent code means entering into convergence with the dark spaces of our minds. That's why we want to engage our subconscious by developing a performative proposal in which two light artists dialogue with the artwork, creating a live synesthetic composition. For fifteen minutes, the artists will send light frequencies to the photocells of the pieces, while the pieces themselves will manifest around the noise. By generating a living device, we invite people to experience a new way of perceiving, to immerse themselves in this sonic observatory, and to have the opportunity to embrace their own insanity.
Guest light jockeys: Nitsuha B2B Fixture Overload
