Sail
Cryptic Nights, The Art School, Glasgow
2025

Sail is a live sound sculpture performance by Shankar Saanthakumar, featuring a kinetic replica of his body, guided through space by the vibrating currents of dream logic.

Fascinated by the transformation of matter – from gas clouds, to planets, to bodies – Saanthakumar imagines this process in reverse. Sail takes the form of a sci-fi vessel, where the body becomes both sail and ship, launching not from orbit, but from within The Art School.

Supported by:
Cryptic Nights
Produced Moon

Photography by:
Iona Wheeler

Hardware::
Plywood
Stainless steel sheet/threaded rod/duct
Mesh pool cover
Cotton thread
PLA
Plaster
Contact mics

Software:
Rhinoceros 3D
Sparc3D