Feeling Cloudy
Feeling Cloudy (2025) explores the intersections of memory, materiality, and technological infrastructure through embodied engagement. Inspired by Cecilia Vicuña’s notion of “weaving against death,” this work interrogates how we offload memory—onto digital clouds, onto material traces, onto bodies. It asks: If knowledge is documented, does that mean it is alive?
The cloud feels like ours, yet it is proprietary. We tether ourselves to it like a kite held by a single thread. This thread extends beyond the digital, into molecular and textile structures—PTFE fibers that slip through Arctic waves and our own blood vessels, wax strips bearing traces of human bodies, and edible molecular data stored in strawberries.
The act of doing—tying knots, cutting threads, savoring ephemeral moments—becomes an alternative archive, resisting the cloud’s forgetfulness. The work invites participants to situate themselves in these entanglements: to position their bodies before a camera that cannot document their inner state, to hold in their hands a forever chemical that outlasts them, to ingest molecular information without decoding it.
Through these gestures, Feeling Cloudy foregrounds the material realities of memory and loss, making palpable the tension between permanence and decay, knowledge and forgetting, documentation and embodied experience. The cloud will forget, but what will you remember?
