What else lies in the depths of the libidinal lake?
Excerpt from the text Homogeneity, Determinacy, Scalability by AMY IRELAND

The Libidinal Lake is a scenic installation and a vivarium for humans and sound, built around the fluorescent and pulsating surface of a toxic lake. This temporary zone is filled with micro- scopic systems, bacteria, fungi and other networks which make up a larger organism where light, sound and color interact with the human body.

The soundscape is influenced by the synaesthetic works for Light Organ by Scriabin, Messi- aen’s colored chords, the pulse of south africa Qgom and Psytrance acid stabs, making use of multichannel sound diffusion and electronically expanded instruments to create the spectral density of the lake’s sound.

The lake itself is built from fluorescent materials, bioluminescent organisms, smoke and vapors, and a robotized lighting system, all of which are part of an artificial, self-regulating network. This network takes the time based information of lithium extraction coming from Wall Street’s fluctuations in the form of real-time data, processed through an Artificial Intelligence, a model of a fungus that eats the peaks of extration (like sugar) and expands its shape in a tridimention- al invisible mesh, informing the electrical and vibrational modulations of the system, creating an environmental alterity stemming from the future. An alchemy that transforms the invisible into visible, and renders audible the temporal modulation of the lake’s surface.

Libidinal Lake is both an enquiry and a visual and sonic synthesis of the interactions between humans and alterity through the surface mechanisms of a lake that thrives on the data of capital, the vibrations of light and sonic synaesthesia, allowing the audience to interact with the system’s behavior, thus becoming a part of its relationships, its intelligence and its spirit.

This work is a development of the research carried out by scenic pieces and installations like O POÇO, a scenic piece which developed a vertical, acoustical exhumation machine through the use of petroleum and human bodies, VOCODER & CAMOUFLAGE, an installation made of carcasses of floral debris, activated by sound and light vibrations in a lymphatic network, and RED MERCURY, a scenic piece which is an oracular mono-drama based on a mineral, organ- ic testimony.