LoopCurrent is an in-progress performance installation that imagines our environmental impact on the planet and the irrevocably altered future. The "Loop Current" is an oceanographic term describing a flow of warm water that affects the strength of tropical cyclones. The project uses movement, sound, seismology, and interactive textiles to reference Loop Current pathways, their destructive alterations, and looping time, where our past actions weave through our present and future realities.


The first iteration of LoopCurrent was developed during a residency at ART LAB Wyspa/Wyspa Progress Foundation and was made possible thanks to the Between.Pomiedzy Festival and IKM (Urban Culture Institute, Gdańsk, Pl), the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and The Canada Council for The Arts.


LoopCurrent also includes autonomous prints and textiles which are represented below.

LoopCurrent (work in progress)
2024
Performance

Work in progress performed at the IKM (Urban Culture Institute) in Gdańsk, Poland as part of the Between.Pomiedzy Festival, May 18, 2024.


Maya Ciarrocchi – concept, direction

Created in collaboration with:

Natalia Chylińska - movement

Joanna Duda - sound

Katarzyna Pastuszak - movement

Sarah Laux - garment consultant

LoopCurrent
2024
Performance

Natalia Chylińska in LoopCurrent 

2024
Video

Video still from LoopCurrent

LoopCurrent Interactive Garment
work in progress
Dye sublimated fabric

LoopCurrent's garments are survival suits engineered to protect our future bodies as they navigate an increasingly treacherous world. The garments will be sewn with conductive thread, which, when activated by the performers, will produce sounds derived from field recordings of land and water.

LoopCurrent Interactive Garment
work in progress
Dye sublimated fabric
City of Sighs
2024
Needlepoint Tapestry on Canvas
20 x 18 inches
Ephemeral Lake
2024
Needlepoint Tapestry on Canvas
18 x 20 inches
Super Outbreak
2023
Needlepoint Tapestry on Canvas
18 x 20 inches
False City (in progress)
2024
Double exposed cyanotype on paper
18 x 24 inches
Derecho (diptych)
2023
Double exposed cyanotypes on paper
24 x 36 inches
Downburst
2023
Double exposed cyanotype on paper
18 x 24 inches
Desire Lines
2024
Double exposed cyanotypes on paper, ink on mylar, cotton thread, magnets
60 x 40 inches
Desire Lines (detail)
Desire Lines (detail)
LoopFold
2023
Double Exposed cyanotype folded book
5 x 12 inches
2023
Double exposed cyanotype accordion book on paper with embroidery threadc
Loop Book
2023
Double exposed cyanotype accordion book on paper with embroidery threadc