The term “car tuning” refers to the independent modification of mass-produced cars – a practice that stands for both flashy staging and refined aesthetics. HYSTERESIS explores this paradoxical subculture in a media installation that unfolds between virtual and physical experience. At its center is a modified bumper car, created in collaboration with female tuners from Zeeland (NL). Equipped with VR goggles and accompanied by a video projection, you experience a fast ride in a Golf Mk4 along a dike road, while the same car is shown in an endless burnout in the projection. Burnouts serve to warm up tires before a drag race, and are simultaneously a public spectacle and a gesture of remembrance – often for tuners who have died in accidents. They mark the ambivalence between technical playfulness and risky boundary-pushing. The title refers to the physical concept of hysteresis: the energy that is lost when a material is under tension and dissipates as heat. Just as tires develop heat under pressure, tuning culture also shows a field of tension between euphoria, wear and tear, and the unstoppable dynamic of communal energy.
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