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Michael Portnoy Andrea Éva Győri
Michael Portnoy, Progressive Touch (2019) Three-channel HD-video installation, 13 min., sound - © Installation view Vleeshal, Middelburg. Photo: Gunnar Meier., Paris Internationale
Michael Portnoy
Progressive Touch, 2019

Three-channel HD-video installation, 13 min. sound
3 projection-screens forming an architecture, Ed. 3+2A/P
Michael Portnoy, The 16 Psyche Gluttons (2020) 
The asteroid 16 Psyche is said to have enough gold and platinum to make everyone on earth a billionaire. But why wait in poverty until we reach the asteroid belt to mine it? These shoes send out gold guzzling NanoWhales© on the quantum ocean to gulp down gold ions from 16 Psyche and bring them back to the wearer. In only five years of daily wear, the shoe will become fully encrusted with gold and must then be submitted to a governing body in Luxembourg which redistributes the wealth fairly around the world. 
 Ceramic
 30 x 12 cm x 14 cm - © Photo: Robert Glas, Paris Internationale
Michael Portnoy
The 16 Psyche Gluttons, 2020

Ceramic
30 x 12 cm x 14 cm
unique
The RequiEmpath Stampede 9000s - © Paris Internationale
Michael Portnoy
The RequiEmpath Stampede 9000s, 2020

Ceramic, acrylic paint, shoestrings
30 x 11 cm x 8 cm
unique
The Permafrost Warden - © Paris Internationale
Michael Portnoy
The Permafrost Warden, 2020

Ceramic, shoestrings
31 x 12 x 10 cm
unique
The Gravitas Airslickers - © Paris Internationale
Michael Portnoy
The Gravitas Airslickers, 2020

Ceramic, acrylic paint, shoestrings
30 x 15 cm x 12 cm
unique
The Glissando Terraformers (2020) 
The first formal trainers designed to be worn on the surface of Mars. The black photoactive surface absorbs solar energy to harvest algae which is excreted through the yellow glissando soles allowing the wearer to glide on the planet’s surface. The algae in turn pumps out oxygen to thicken the planet’s atmosphere eventually making it habitable.
Ceramic, gold paint, synthetic rubber, shoelace
 34 x 12 x 13 cm - © Photo: Robert Glas, Paris Internationale
Michael Portnoy
The Glissando Terraformers, 2020

Ceramic, gold paint, synthetic rubber, shoestrings
34 x 12 cm x 13 cm
unique
Michael Portnoy, The Tekton Bafflers (2020) Formed by an array of overlapping baffles, this rapid response trainer acts as a reflector for social fissures, amplifying their reverberations until feedback occurs and temporarily resetting retrograde thought patterns. Ceramic, leather shoelaces, 28 x 14 cm x 16 cm - © Photo: Robert Glas., Paris Internationale
Michael Portnoy
The Tekton Bafflers, 2020

Ceramic, leather shoestrings
28 x 14 cm x 16 cm
unique

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