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The installation consists of three sculptures of different sizes made of polyurethane, which, similar to ship horns, emerge in exponential funnels. The objects are capable of generating sounds with the use of compressed air. With each tone, large soap bubbles appear on the objects' flare. They increase in size with the sound duration, eventually detach from the horn and float  through the room until they burst at an unpredictable moment and location in the space. The sometimes man-sized soap bubbles can travel over twenty meters, depending on the thermal condition. Visitors freely move on runways through the room and encounter the floating objects.As the bubbles get formed by the air stream coming from the horn's tube, it suggests to the viewer that the sound becomes transformed into the floating object and somehow is "stored" in it at the moment when it detaches from the horn. This notion is intensified as the sound's waveform becomes visible in the movement of the forming soap bubble.
In line with Kubli's interest in working with composition software, he created an algorithm that utilizes probability and chance operations to control the three sculptures. It focuses on the interplay between the sound and the choreography of the soap bubbles in the room. There is a constant renewal of the spatial situation through the soap bubbles' volatility and their unpredictable movements.The title Black Hole Horizon refers to the astrophysical phenomenon of the event horizon; a boundary in spacetime beyond which events are no longer perceptible to the human observer.
event horizon sculpture probability software compressed air thermal polyurethane installation soap bubble