Paula Vogels has created speakers woven from copper wire and colorful monofilament.
“Sounds are revealed not as inconsequential by-products of textile production but as indicators of the weavers’ socio-political contexts, exploitative supply chains and labour conditions,” she explained.
Vogels made her speakers from colourful monofilament fishing line and copper wire, hand-woven together in a circular pattern that could be opened out to form tubes.
The copper wire is responsible for carrying the electrical signal necessary to make the structure vibrate and produce sound, while the translucency of the monofilament is meant to showcase that there is nothing inside the speaker making the sound but the textile structure itself.
