2026.01.24 (SAT)
Venue: SAM (Singapore Art Museum), Singapore
Organizer: SAM & TheCube Project Space
Chia Chun Xu & Luca Bonaccorsi – Penumbra_prototype
Penumbra_prototype is an audio-visual performance developed by Chia-Chun Xu and Luca Bonaccorsi, conceived to create a multi-media environment arising from the interplay between sound and image, investigating the possibilities of dialogue between the analog and digital realms.
The sound emerges from a no-input feedback system constructed by Xu in late 2024 — a configuration that resists stability and remains in a state of ongoing transformation. Each iteration responds to the acoustic and spatial contingencies of its environment, unfolding as a distinct yet related manifestation. The work situates itself within a threshold where sound alternates between articulation and decay, coherence and entropy. Through the self-referential logic of feedback, it examines conditions of partial presence and perceptual ambiguity, where form becomes mutable and boundaries dissolve.
The multitude of frequencies created are fed into Bonaccorsi’s computer, where their spectral components are analyzed, manipulated, and reorganized through sound analysis techniques, resulting in the generation of a real-time visualization. The image acts as a constant recompiling counterpart to the sound material, where pressure, motion and mutation trigger transformations in shape, color and coordinates of an abstract landscape.
Sound and image co-exist as indivisible elements, striving to create a contained, multi-sensory experience, in which the performance devices operate as terminals mediating between the human and the digital.