“When a soul is on fire with God’s love, it feels as if a seraph with a burning brand of love had struck it, and penetrated it already on fire as glowing coal, or rather as a flame, and burns it utterly” (The Living Flame of Love by John of the Cross, stanza 2, 2-4).

An angel is a monster. A body-less, slimy form of existence. An angel does not surpass the human, but rather negate him./An angel is a negation of the human.

The search for post-anthropocene and not-human often ends in fetishizing nature, attributing the status of the Other to animals, as if to oppose the I – the human. And that is not what we are after. 

 

 

Patricia MacCormack, points to a figure of an angel as an entity which is a complete negation of what is human and which allows one to escape the traps of easy dualisms. Creatures that are scary and beautiful, fallen and saintly, stretching without limits and discontinuous; MacCormack calls them angels. Every form of contact with sn angel means to go beyond; an experience which one might call mystic.

 

 

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Angel's skin was grown as a fungal-bacterial colony.

The sculpture was created using a scoby (a by-product of kombucha production; a symbiosis of fungus and bacteria). Pieces of scoby were sewn either with machine or hands.

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His voice was generated by metal structures and generative codes f.ex. servo and DC motors programmed with Arduino, Sound was processed in Max Msp.

 

 

 

 

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Inside our Angel, we placed LED lights on DC motors, which together created a fumbling effect and gently moved the body. We also animated the tail of the angel using motors and weights,
which, under gravity, “helped” the motors. In order to create the angel’s “song/sounds,” we sed small metal items found at a scrapyard.


Angel installation was created by Agata Dyczko, Wojtek Kurek and Julita Gozdzik during their micro-residency in IP STUDIO (Wroclaw, Poland) in November 2019, was presented in DUZY POKOJ Gallery in Warsaw in February 2020.

 

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