Mai Braun
A durational performance and installation created through a live coding practice. Throughout the exhibition, the artist remains in the space, continuously transforming the work by writing live code that generates music in real time, with the code projected for the audience to see.
The work is based on repetition, minimal shifts, and their accumulation over time, revealed gradually. It offers a personal perspective on healing, not as an escape from recurring cycles, but as a slow transformation that happens within them.
Within a system where time, repetition, and presence are not only conditions but active material, the work exists through shared duration: the viewer’s length of stay, their entries and exits, and returns to the work all reshape how it is experienced.
It becomes a reflection of the artist’s current psychological state and an ongoing inquiry into healing, and into possible forms of care, release, and survival.
The work emerged from an attempt to find a way to continue creating during a period in which I could not get out of bed. It is less about the music being produced and more about constructing the conditions in which music can re-emerge.
There is no catharsis or climax here, only continuous presence within sound. The audience is invited to enter, leave, and return freely, encountering each time a different moment within a process that never stops becoming.
“IT’S NO FUN WATCHING PEOPLE WOUND
THEMSELVES SO THAT THEY CAN HOLE UP,
NURSE THEMSELVES BACK TO HEALTH,
AND REPEAT THE CYCLE.
THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO.”
― Jenny Holzer
