In a straightforward sense, a wormhole is a hole in wood or fruit, burrowed by insect larvae. It can also be a figurative hole, such as a productive digression that is both a detour and a destination-in-becoming. It can denote a process, for instance, of navigating digital space, of moving endlessly from one internet page to another by way of hyperlinks. The laborious slowness, underlying the above description, clashes with the speed that characterizes wormholes in literary, film, and TV sci-fi narratives. This is what artistic duo Maggessi/Morusiewicz navigate in “Flash/Dim,“ the third episode in their ongoing performative series “Wormhole Studies.”

Credits: Images

Some of the images come from the following films: 

D: A Bigger Splash (film, dir. Jack Hazan, 1973)

1, 8: Satpralat (“Tropical Malady,” film, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)

7: Io sono l'amore ("I Am Love," film, dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2009)

A-D: large (rows 1, 4)

1-8: small (rows 2, 3)