swellS
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2025
Installation & Performance
Nest, Den Haag
[Spill Gold X Studio Noralie]
A gleaming cascade, a silver waterfall. Mountains quiver like a mirage on the horizon, dissolving into a tranquil lake, a mirror or portal to another world. Taking two forms, a 50-minute live show and a standalone installation, swellS is an audiovisual collaboration between Spill Gold and Studio Noralie. Blurring sculpture, textiles, and performance, it evokes ripples as metaphors for ecological entanglement. At its centre hangs a monumental reflective curtain, animated by robotic beaters triggered by MIDI. Strikes send waves across the cloth, forming a luminous, breathing landscape that dances with polyrhythmic sound: light, motion, matter, sound entwine in responsive equilibrium.