TRYDAY | Sarah Oppenheimer - RR

Tryday

Trydays are one-off public events at V2_ that give artists the opportunity to test new work in front of an audience. These evenings function as open moments of experimentation, where installations, performances, and research-in-progress are shared and explored. Trydays create space for dialogue, feedback, and exchange between artists and visitors

RR

Our environment contains us, and its machines maintain us, forming an intertwined ecosystem of context and habitation. How might our presence within these systems reshape their hierarchies and interdependencies? How might time be stretched or contracted, synchronized or offset, to amplify our sense of interconnection?

RR is a tool, an object, a process — a responsive system of inputs and outputs that explores our perception of spatial agency.

Slender, floor-to-ceiling conductive lines form the primary interface for audience participants. Stretched across the architecture, their metallic cores act as distributed antennas, amplifying the electromagnetic frequencies of human presence through capacitance-sensing technology. The inputs register proximity and touch, transmitting signals to kinetic outputs: mobile, suspended, balancing projectors housed within oversized glass cylinders. As participants touch the inputs, their actions modulate light intensity and scale.

In parallel, outputs are manipulated by scored performers. By turning, tipping, and reorienting mobile output elements, performers control the direction and angle of projection. Cones of light expand and contract, sweeping across walls and ceiling. Pools of illumination overlap and interact, transforming architectural surfaces into dynamic, active fields. Performer behavior is scripted through algorithmic logic. Movement scores derived from flocking behavior and PID control direct performers’ operations and output trajectories.

RR produces an entangled relay of responsiveness across multiple timescales. Immediate mechanical feedback esta