LALIE S. PASCUAL


A lightning Tale



Art Community Garden

New York - Lausanne and the Metaverse

2021


The Lightning Tale pyramid was created to tell the story of a pine tree that was hit by a lightning, giving it a new life and meaning. Images of the tree which was struck, dried branches and leaves, as well as fresh herbs and moss found in the tree’s surrounding, were digitally fragmented and recomposed into new realities in different states of transformation. They suggest a fragile equilibrium that holds the past, while also creating the present and the future. A reminder that Nature has a beginning, and unfortunately it will also have an end. No force or strong construction such as the pyramid, a symbol of power and stability, can make it eternal.


The work was curated by Lily Honglei for the Virtual Reality Art Community Garden.


Image and video courtesy: Art Community Garden



PAUSE



Virtual Switzerland

Basel - Lausanne

2014 - 2015


PAUSE is a journey in time made of a series of animations which are historically and culturally linked to the cities of Virtuale Switzerland. Each animation, a PAUSE in time, invites viewers to explore the space between the virtual and the real, and to discover new encounters between past, present and possible new beginnings.


The work is curated by Arthur Clay from ETHZ Zurich, for Virtuale Switzerland the first biannale for the virtual arts to be dislpayed in Basel, Lugano, Lausanne and Zurich 2014 - 2015.



Mysterium Cosmographicum



Grand Central Station, New York City and Augustinergasse, Zurich

2014


With: John Craig Freeman and Caroline Bernard


Mysterium Cosmographicum is an augmented reality art installation inspired by Johannes Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum published in 1595. Kepler speculated that by nesting the five Platonic solids, octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, tetrahedron, hexahedron, he could explain the orbits of the six known planets around the Sun. Although fundamentally flawed, the theory paved the road to modern astronomy.


The art installation recreates the Mysterium Cosmographicum using images and video footage of the city of Zurich. It explores notions of change, motion and the ephemeral, and suggests new representational models of Platonic solids that not only blur of the borders between the past and the present, the virtual and the real, but also aim to pave the road to new dialogs, conversations and possibilities.


Mysterium Cosmographicum was produced by Art Clay for "Zurich Meets New York", in Grand Central Station in New York City, May 2014, with funding from ETH Zurich and coordination by Monika Rut



Metro-Next



Boston-Thonon-Lausanne-Zurich-New York

2011 - 2014


With: John Craig Freeman and Caroline Bernard


Metro-NeXt is a follow up to Martin Kippenberger’s Metro-Net project. Before his untimely death in 1997 at age 43, Martin Kippenberger imagined a conceptual global underground metro system and started to construct entrances to it in different cities around the world. These faux subway stations led nowhere physically, but conceptually linked the cities and people of the world. Rather than subway stations leading to nowhere, Metro-NeXt leads to a virtual realm, a mixed reality portal, linking the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Victoria BC, and Los Angeles CA to Boston, Thonon and Lausanne. Using augmented reality technology, visitors can enter the Metro-NeXt Station and teleport to their city of choice.


In May 2014 a 3D model of the Metro-NeXt station was designed by John Craig Freeman and presented at Grand Central Station, New York City for Zurich meets New York week curated by Arthur Clay with funding from ETH Zurich. It's augmented reality version was displayed at: LA Re.Play Los Angeles 2012, DAW International Victoria BC, and Little Berlin Gallery Philadelphia PA.



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