Unresolved

Unresolved is a kinetic sound installation in which eight autonomous mechanical agents continuously pull against a central white cube, generating tension, friction, and sound through their interactions. The work explores unresolvedness as a condition of existence—where fragile bodies endlessly struggle, connect, erode, and continue running without clear resolution.

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Abstract

Unresolved is a kinetic sound installation composed of eight autonomous mechanical agents surrounding a white cube at the center. Each individual continuously senses distance and reacts through local feedback. There is no central controller, no shared awareness, and no fixed destination—only continuous adjustment between bodies pulling and being pulled.

From this system, movement and sound emerge. As the agents operate, the central cube is dragged across a black mirrored surface, producing sharp, grating sounds through friction. The mechanical bodies repeatedly rise, fall, and collide, trapped within a physical tension they cannot fully escape.

Beneath them, the black mirrored surface reflects every movement while swallowing all traces. It witnesses the struggle, exhaustion, and conflict without retaining evidence of any of it. Everything that happens here is absorbed into the system's ongoing operation—witnessed, and forgotten.

The work explores unresolvedness as a condition of existence rather than a problem to solve. We endlessly pull and are pulled by one another. Life is beautiful yet fragile; connections are painful yet inseparable.

Viewers arrive, observe, and leave, yet the system continues running. We obsessively search for meaning and answers, fail repeatedly—and somehow, we begin again.

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