The Library of the Winds

 
The wind inaugurates chaos or change. The Library of the Winds stages the wind as a cultural phenomenon beyond a natural one. The wind has many association and the Roman god Fortuna represented wind and good fortune. Keeping with this spirit, an an air-powered lottery machine selects one of the World’s great winds the Lbrary of the Winds will reproduce. Aeoliphones are informed by real wind data and set into motion to create the sound of the chosen wind, as they have been used in theater and opera since the 16th.

Just as the spinning of the Earth ultimately creates wind, so too does The Library of the Winds roof and floor revolve. Standing on the carousel-like platform helps us to feel the effects our sense of orientation as the wind does. The visual geometry that normally gives a sense of order becomes disorienting in motion. This is the intersection where the wind not only shapes our landscapes but also our states of mind.

Produced with Werktank

As Seen below at

Atelier Vilvoorde where the work was produced with Jan Huygh and Pieter Heremans
in De Kruit Fabriek, Vilvoorde, Beglium 
Photos by Johan Poezevara & Fabien Silvestre Suzorat


Cmine in Genk for the exhibition “Any Way the Wind Blows”
June 22- September 15, 2024
Genk, Belgium
Photos by Annika Wallis

kadoc.kuleuven,
a former Jesuit church in Leuven, Belgium- photos Haseeb Ahmed