From increasingly frequent and intense storms to turbines installed on occupied territory, air in motion is intertwined with politics, land rights, and the climate crisis. Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation creates a state of liveliness in air that triggers confrontation – a force that literally blows in your face. Consisting of Johannes Kreidler's own "Thunder Sheet Machine" instruments – in which sheets of aluminum, steel, bronze, copper, zinc, and silver are motorised to create compositions with air, vibrations, and pressure – the installation generates contrasts between strength and vulnerability, natural elements and technology. 

Johannes Kreidler has a long-standing interest in using precise motors to control physical sound, produced by instruments or by membranes, strings, plates, and similar materials. He creates installations that allow him to explore his robotic instruments as quasi-organisms; beings in their own right, they pose questions around agency and authorship.