Ketjak, is a multifaceted installation which plays upon the audience’s understanding of both organic and inorganic systems, with the objective of provoking discourse regarding the role of the individuals within said system and the resulting structure as a whole. A large matrix of motors, positioned in five by five rows, drive a set of simple pulleys that each raise and lower a straight steel spoke, on top of which have been placed small plastic domes. Across this bed of domed-spokes are draped two semi-transparent white sheets of fabric that visualize the collective landscape created by the separate movements of the motors. The result of this assembly is a delicate yet malleable upper layer supported by a collection of rigid and industrious constructs that click and whirr as they drive their spokes incessantly, occasionally dropping them resulting in a loud metallic clatter. This cacophony is only amplified when the audience invades the system’s environment, as they activate a movement sensor that increases the motors’ speed. This agitation generates a sense of engagement with the audience as they are now directly responsible for the disruption of the piece’s originally noisy yet meditative performance.