Year: 2011

Media: video installation, screen made from cornflour and water solution.

Exhibited as part of ‘Surface Tension: Future of Water (Wet Kunst)’, Science Gallery, Dublin, 2011

A non-Newtonian Fluid is a liquid that changes to a solid when force is applied. The video shows me running on a non-Newtonian fluid, which in this case, is a mixture made from cornflour and water. By running on the liquid, I am repeatedly producing the moment where a non-Newtonian mixture alternates from a liquid to a solid allowing me to run on top of it. However, eventually, I tired out and with no power left it transformed back to a liquid and my feet sink to the bottom. I made a block of cornflour and water, which act as a projection screen.