Vibeke Mascini worked with Artangel on Longplayer Assembly – joining 23 other participants in a non-stop 12-hour conversation relay presented live online on 26 September 2020, marking the twentieth anniversary of Longplayer.
Mascini is a visual artist and writer, whose research looks at historic and futuristic concepts of electricity as a speculative agent of life. Often working collaboratively with scientists, engineers, government employees and music composers, her sculptures, installations, video and texts seek to channel an intimate understanding of electricity by drawing a direct relation to its source. Among the outcomes of this research is the sound installation Salvage, for which a new form of battery was developed that harnessed the energy released from burning the remains of a stranded whale.
Mascini’s work is included in international collections such as MoMA Library, New York; Academisch Medisch Centrum, Amsterdam; Columbia University Library, New York; and Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.