Pneuma (Greek) 'a blowing, a wind, blast; breeze; influence; breathed air, breath; odour, scent; spirit of a person; inspiration, a spirit, ghost', from pnein 'to blow, to breathe', from Old English fnora 'sneezing', fnæran 'to snort'.
*Wurlitzer Co: A company that used to produce band-organs, theater organs and eventually the legendary Wurlitzer Jukebox.
Kosmos Wurlitzer is a machine made up of custom built pneumatic elements to create an automatic organ which plays star constellation map-plates. The basic units of the system is the bellow section, a chamber and valve system which channels the flow of air pressure between the chambers. As such, the pneumatic system is a very fragile architecture, much like a body. This sort of architecture makes air into a sculptural material, subordinating the wood, the rubber, the leather and all the other materials to containers.
Versto has produced a new appendix for his Kosmos Wurlitzer's pneumatic body, now including three chromatic octaves of organ-flutes. His work can be read as aphorisms in sculptural form. His current interests on mnemonic discipline and its application on memory approached what can be considered a dramaturgical landscape… as a craftsmen who hunts for comprehensible and transparent constellations from within this personal abyss.
Curated by Tolga Balci.