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M:1:2:3 — excerpts of Milieu

2017
Media Sound Installation with Stepper Pedestal
Steel cable, stereo sound loop

Presented in the context of Transitions of Energy, K. H. Renlund Museum, Kokkola (FI)

An immersive, poetic, and subtly humorous sound installation that explores the osmotic boundaries between inside and outside, the private and the public.

The work unfolds as three tonal „clouds“—excerpts from Milieu—which condense into a new form through spatial arrangement. Structured according to principles of Sound-Form-Aesthetics, the installation invites public participation, creating a sensorial essay that oscillates between experience and reflection.

The clouded sonic space draws on the distributed network diagrams developed by engineer Paul Baran in the 1960s—an idea Juliana first referenced in her earlier works Paisaje Virtual and Milieu. Here, these networks are reimagined through sound: a collage of found audio from social networks and deconstructed textual fragments, forming fictional acoustic realities that blur the lines between the real and the constructed.

The result is a resonant field—both conceptual and corporeal—a participatory architecture of sound, movement, and ephemeral meaning.

Site-specific Set:
(2017) Transitions of Energy, K. H. Renlund Museum, Kokkola (FI)