Mimi Belilty

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Soldering adventures. Ode to Metallica 
Pop-Up Show 
Stow College, Glasgow
2024 Exploring soldering techniques with Picquot Ware opened up a dialogue between domestic familiarity and unexpected aggression. The sleek, highly polished surfaces of the mid-century tea set – traditionally associated with comfort, warmth, and hospitality – became disrupted through the intervention of sharp, intrusive soldering. These abrupt metallic spikes, protruding from the once-harmonious form, introduced a sense of threat, destabilising the viewer’s relationship with the object.

An item once seen as soothing and nurturing was reconfigured into something ambiguous – perhaps even dangerous. This tension created a moment of pause: Could a teapot, a symbol of ritual and calm, become something to fear? Was this transformation an act of violation or revelation?

The unsettling quality of the altered objects was amplified through the installation environment. Self-made contact microphones were attached directly to the surfaces, capturing and amplifying resonances. These sounds were fed through tangled networks of exposed wiring, deliberately left visible to draw attention to the process, the circuitry, and the labor behind the intervention.

Together, the soldered tea set, the wiring, the sonic feedback, and the handmade plinth display formed a kind of feedback loop: an orchestration of tension between memory, material, and manipulation.


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