Stream of consciousness - Daloy: Chris Nichols
Opening celebration: Thursday May 8th, 6-8pm
Installed in the basement of MARS Gallery, Stream of consciousness – Daloy is an immersive audio-visual work that visualises the unseen forces constantly moving through and between us. Drawing on the Tagalog word daloy (meaning "flow"), the installation captures a sense of continuous transmission of energy, breath, data, memory illustrating how life and information are in perpetual motion.
Flexible LED screens snake through the space like digital vines, their forms inspired by organic systems but rendered in a hyper-contemporary medium. These displays come alive in response to the viewer’s presence. Like an ecosystem reacting to its surroundings, the work invites participants to become part of the flow, entwining with the signals that course invisibly through the air, the earth, and the self.
This piece is the first in a two-part series that will culminate in Simbolo, a public artwork developed through the Test Sites program. Featuring a generative soundtrack developed by musician Berkay Mete, Daloy reflects an introspective meditation on invisible systems and sensory entanglement, it lays the groundwork for a larger exploration of collective energy, shared presence, and living sculpture.
Sound design by Berkay Mete
Programming by Auravis
Chris Nichols (a.k.a. Magick Sarap) is a multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersection of immersive experience, emerging technologies, and performance. His evolving practice explores how digital systems can be used to reframe our understanding of nature, constructing spaces where technological systems reinterpret and animate the natural world.
Chris works with sensor data, light, sound, and sculpture to surface the unseen forces around us, transforming real-time information into sensory experiences.
As the creator of Club Trish, Chris developed a platform for celebrating ‘Trishness’—a fluid term encapsulating queerness, avantgarde energy, and sensual experimentation. His works take place in the digital and physical worlds through parties, sculptures and performances and is better understood as an event in time where the unexpected unfolds.