As selected artist for the open call “IN PROCESS – Experiments and errors” curated by HAUT and IAC, Oona Libens starts the second part of her residency at IAC. 

In her project ‘Spider Threads’ Oona wants to investigate the relationship between binary technology and weaving, as part of a bigger question about how the digital technology could be defined by curiosity and inclusivity instead of commerce and surveillance. She will plunge into binary matters and associate freely around dualities, cellular automata (mathematics), the history of information, punched cards, etc… To visualise this immaterial and virtual technology she wants to make use of a weaving technique with punched cards; the same technique that was used to build the first computers.

A special role will be given the spider, the archetypal weaver. It will serve as a metaphor for a technology that does not let itself be domesticated for profit-oriented purposes.

The work of Oona Libens (Sweden/Belgium) is mostly light, and shadow based and combines science and technology with a poetic visual language into almost-puppet, almostcinema performances.

Visit Oona Libens’ webpage – oonalibens.com

Read more about the HAUT & IAC open call

Photo credits: Morten Arnfred, Good Place Productions