VENICE, IT
20 MAY - 21 NOVEMBER 2021

SANS TITRE
MATERIAL PHASES
OF SUNS

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021. Venice Edition.
Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation. Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds
92 x 163in. Current live capture: 49 seconds, twenty-third week, sixth revolution. [New captures featured until completion 21 November 2021]

 

UNTITLED ART OBJECT

/Venice edition

Phosphorus/70% Carbon/13% Silicon/5% Hydrogen/1% Lithium/.5% Trace Elements/10%

X Value——-----—-2.3m
Y Value------------ 4.14m
Z Value------------ 0 < 1×10−18 eV/c2
Temperature——--288.05 K (14.9 C)
Location————--Latitude: 45.443795 | Longitude: 12.327695 (Venice, Italy)

Age ≈ 13824000 Earth Seconds

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Sans Titre / Material Phases of Suns continues the Sans Titre project as an encounter of the material universe as one cosmological scale. The mass of the untitled art object is not a summary for Corday; its mass is a duration of the material universe, specific and inseparable. This immersive long-form simulation projects a field of particles developing the ITER-embedded art object turning in real-time with our Sun.

Sans Titre’s helical fastening structure completes one helical thread or rotation every 26.24 earth days. The developing composition releases the ocular gaze at the very edge of perception demanding fuller awareness as the simulation, the artist, the visitor, the tokamak, each embark an experience of our Sun. This work follows a shared structure—the helical twist—within Sans Titre’s fastening surface, the magnetic fields of the Sun, and toroidal pulse of ITER.

Corday’s practice as a sculptor uses matter as an atomic clay of time, space, existence. The foundries of Sans Titre metals are ancient stellar furnaces gone billions of years continuing works of its dross and slag in an exacting immaculate vernacular, what Corday terms an ‘elemental architecture.’ This elemental architecture forms generations of suns and the universal palette of elements. The artist conceives the untitled art object not only a material moment between birth and death of suns, but as a durational form of the stars, a material phase of suns.

We are the witnessing, participating generation of a sun being built on Earth. The Sans Titre project places Art as the final global contributor to ITER joining its thirty-five nation devotion. Please follow this project in its evolving conversation between suns.

TERRESTRIAL SUN

Hydrogen/100% [Deuterium and Tritium]

Plasma Radius———————---6.2m
Plasma Volume———————--840m3
Surface Area––––––––––—-—--180 hectares
Weight --------------------------23000 Tons
Temperature————————---1.5e + 8K (150,000,000 C)
Fusion Power————————–-500 MW
Input Heating Power—————–50 MW
Components———————-—--9,999,999 (Industry) + 1 (Art)
Contributing Countries——--— 35 + Art
Location——————------------43.707096099853516, 5.774602890014648 (Saint Paul Lez Durance, France)

Age ≈ begins Earth year 2025

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ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is one of the most complex engineering projects in history, aiming to build the world’s largest fusion machine. It will require millions of components to assemble the giant reactor that will weigh 23,000 tonnes and house the tokamak—an experimental machine designed to harness the energy of fusion. The heart of a tokamak is its doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber. Inside, under the influence of extreme heat and pressure, gaseous hydrogen fuel becomes a plasma, the very environment in which hydrogen atoms can be brought to fuse and yield energy. Just like a conventional power plant, a fusion power plant will use this heat to produce steam and then electricity by way of turbines and generators.

Thousands of engineers and scientists have contributed to the design of ITER since the idea for an international joint experiment in fusion was first launched in 1985. The ITER Members—China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States—are now engaged in a 35-year collaboration to build and operate the ITER experimental device, and together bring fusion to the point where a demonstration fusion reactor can be designed.

ITER aims to produce 10 times more fusion power than the heating power put into the plasma, making it the key experimental step between today’s research machines and tomorrow’s fusion power plants.

Fusion is the same energy source generated from the Sun that gives the Earth its light and warmth. Though ITER itself will not produce electricity—it is rather intended to prove that large-scale fusion is possible—it represents a massive step in the creation of fusion energy, and will drive the transition from research to reality.

CELESTIAL SUN

Hydrogen/73.46% Helium/24.85% Oxygen/0.77% Carbon/0.29%
Iron/0.16% Neon/0.12% Nitrogen/0.09% Silicon/0.07%
Magnesium/0.05% Sulphur/0.04%

Equatorial radius------------------------695,700 km, 696,342 km 109 × Earth
Equatorial circumference---------------4.379×106 km 109 × Earth
Flattening--------------------------------9×10−6
Surface area-----------------------------6.09×1012 km2 12,000 × Earth
Volume-----------------------------------1.41×1018 km3 1,300,000 × Earth Mass -------------------------------------1.9885×1030 kg 333,000 Earths
Average density -------------------------1.408 g/cm3 0.255 × Earth
Center density (modeled)---------------162.2 g/cm3 12.4 × Earth
Equatorial surface gravity --------------274 m/s2 28 × Earth
Moment of inertia factor----------------0.070 (estimate)
Escape velocity (from the surface)-----617.7 km/s 55 × Earth
Temperature Center (modeled)---------1.57×107 K
Photosphere (effective)-----------------5,772 K
Corona-----------------------------------5×106 K
Luminosity (Lsol)------------------------3.828×1026 W ≈ 3.75×1028 lm ≈ 98
Mean radiance (Iso)---------------------2.009×107 W·m−2·sr−1

Age ≈ 4.6 billion years

 

“As a sculptor, I know all material I see comes from stars––any object in my studio or in my hands has billion-year provenance. These varied and many things, each are an evolution of stars––a continuance.  The form of the star continues in the form of this object.  All objects then are a material phase of suns––another phase of a sun, including the suns themselves.”

-Christine Corday

 
 

/PHASE

 

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021. Venice Edition.
Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation. Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds
92 x 163in. Current live capture: 49 seconds, twentieth week, sixth revolution. [New captures featured weekly until completion 21 November 2021]

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021.  Venice Edition. Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation. Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds 92 x 163in.  Current live capture: 49 seconds, seventh week, third revolution. [New captures featured weekly until completion 21 November 2021]

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021. Venice Edition.
Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation. Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds
92 x 163in. Current live capture: 49 seconds, seventh week, third revolution. [New captures featured weekly until completion 21 November 2021]

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021.  Venice Edition. Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation. Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds 92 x 163in.  Current live capture: 49 seconds, fourth week, first revolution. [New captures featured weekly until completion 21 November 2021]

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021. Venice Edition.
Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation. Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds
92 x 163in. Current live capture: 49 seconds, fourth week, first revolution. [New captures featured weekly until completion 21 November 2021]

UNTITLED ART OBJECT PHASE 13824000/009.  Attempt of six-month Venice Exhibition in three-month segments over 9 seconds.

UNTITLED ART OBJECT PHASE 13824000/009. Attempt of six-month Venice Exhibition in three-month segments over 9 seconds.

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021.  Venice Edition. Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation. Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds 92 x 163in.  Current live capture: 56 seconds, second week, first revolution.

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021. Venice Edition.
Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation. Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds
92 x 163in. Current live capture: 56 seconds, second week, first revolution.

UNTITLED ART OBJECT PHASE 13824000/104.  Attempt of six-month Venice Exhibition [six in real-time rotations with the Sun] in 104 seconds

UNTITLED ART OBJECT PHASE 13824000/104. Attempt of six-month Venice Exhibition [six in real-time rotations with the Sun] in 104 seconds

UNTITLED ART OBJECT PHASE 13824000/007. Attempt of six-month Venice Exhibition [six in real-time rotations with the Sun] reversed to time 0/zero.

UNTITLED ART OBJECT PHASE 13824000/007. Attempt of six-month Venice Exhibition [six in real-time rotations with the Sun] reversed to time 0/zero.

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021. Venice Edition.
Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation. Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds
92 x 163in. Current live capture: 49 seconds, eighteenth week, fifth revolution. [New captures featured weekly until completion 21 November 2021]

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021.  Venice Edition. Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation. Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds 92 x 163in.  Current live capture: 49 seconds, sixth week, second revolution. [New captures featured weekly until completion 21 November 2021]

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021. Venice Edition.
Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation. Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds
92 x 163in. Current live capture: 49 seconds, sixth week, second revolution. [New captures featured weekly until completion 21 November 2021]

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021. Venice Edition. Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation. Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds 92 x 163in. Current live capture: 49 seconds, third week, first revolution.

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021. Venice Edition.
Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation. Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds
92 x 163in. Current live capture: 49 seconds, third week, first revolution.

UNTITLED ART OBJECT PHASE 13824000/003. Attempt of six-month Venice Exhibition [six in real-time rotation with the Sun] in 3 seconds

UNTITLED ART OBJECT PHASE 13824000/003. Attempt of six-month Venice Exhibition [six in real-time rotation with the Sun] in 3 seconds

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021.  Venice Edition. Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation.  Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds 92 x 163in.  Current live capture: few seconds, first week, first revolution. [New captures featured every Friday until completion 21 November 2021]

Sans Titre/Material Phases of Suns, 2021. Venice Edition.
Real-time, long-form 4k digital projected simulation.
Duration: Six rotations with our Sun / 13824000 seconds
92 x 163in. Current live capture: few seconds, first week, first revolution. [New captures featured every Friday until completion 21 November 2021]

UNTITLED ART OBJECT PHASE 13824000/005. Attempt of six-month Venice Exhibition [six in real-time rotations with the Sun] reversed to three-months in 5 seconds.

UNTITLED ART OBJECT PHASE 13824000/005. Attempt of six-month Venice Exhibition [six in real-time rotations with the Sun] reversed to three-months in 5 seconds.

 
 

/STILL

 

“all matter on Earth shares the same material provenance of the stars and was once adjacent to each other, having an intimacy indifferent to scale, and my work takes interest in this shared quality of the material, the shared architecture of the elemental. All materials are both inseparable witnesses and participants in a multibillion year changing form. The universe works in a medium that is the clay of my studio. The universe has sculptor’s tools and as an artist, I use them”

-Christine Corday

 
 

/DISCUSSION + EVENTS

An Architecture of Suns. Multidisciplinary panel presentation with Christine Corday, Stephen Mangiat, Sergio Orlandi [Chief Executive Engineer, ITER], Mark Cheung [Principal Investigator, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory] moderated by Jarred Grimes. November 13. 2021. Location: Palazzo Michiel del Brusa, Canal Grande. Venice, Italy and online. Organized by ECC Sculpture Director Bianca Bonaldi and Vittoria Mastrolilli

/PRESS + MATERIALS

An immersive simulation that rotates at the speed of the sun. Clara Rodorigo, Domus. June 2021 [English / Italian]

A Palazzo Mora di Venezia, l’opera di Christine Corday si muove con il Sole. Ilaria Faedda, Exhibart. June 2021 [Italian]

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SANS TITRE /
MATERIAL PHASES OF SUNS
PALAZZO MORA
TIME SPACE EXISTENCE / ECC
VENICE ARCHITECTURAL BIENNALE
21 MAY - 21 NOVEMBER 2021

ARTIST, CONCEPT, SOUND: CHRISTINE CORDAY
TECHNICAL DIRECTION, DESIGN, SOUND: STEPHEN MANGIAT
PROJECT ADVISORS: GMUNK, AARON KOBLIN
PRODUCTION DESIGN: CHRIS JONES
WEBSITE: JARRED GRIMES
EXHIBITION CURATION: ECC
SPECIAL THANKS: LABAN COBLENTZ/ ITER, MARK UHRAN/ ITER, SHIRA TABACHNIKOFF/ ITER, MARK CHEUNG/ LMSAL

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