ACCESS MODES FOR ENCOUNTERING LARGE INDUSTRIAL BODIES

22.3.2021
In this audiopiece Kitty Maria describes an encounter she has with a windtunnel. The windtunnel is a stationary tool for calibration on the workshop floor in a company that produces wind sensors. It is a relational type of machine, in constant calibration dialogue with a meta set- up which calibrates a meta instrument which then calibrates a local set-up which then calibrates the protagonist wind sensor.
In this video she meets the object and tries to establish a fringe relationship outside its general function, employing the problem of the ‘access mode’ as an investigation apparatus in finding ways for a person to meet a machine with no specific desire to operate it. Bypassing the machine-operator relationship to perform a highly tactile and phonetic examination of the prerequisites of the object. By touching it, holding it and imitating it, she generates alternative information about the machine, other than its general usage or output power. The work expands on ways to encounter a large industrial body outside its functionality.