Water moves. Salt stays.
Presented within Flowing City at Istanbul Modern, Books of Salt follows water through the city’s seas, springs, bodies and built environments. Salt remaining on glass, microscopic images and short texts bring these encounters into view: waters from the Bosphorus, a buffalo puddle, rainwater gathered on the museum’s roof, and the artists’ tears.
What remains after water withdraws becomes a way of attending to relations between bodies and landscapes.
The Earths Within Us unfolds between the architecture of Swedenborg House and the inner landscape of the visitor. Three-dimensional sound, voice, touch and choreographed movement guide an encounter shaped by each participant’s senses, imagination and emotions.
Presented alongside Words Dissolved by Tears, a glass disc holding the crystallised form of a single tear, the work extends Lundahl & Seitl’s ongoing enquiry into water, bodies and relation.
River Biographies is an odyssey into the geology of the body as well as of the land, emphasizing that which is not human but of which you are a part. Taking the form of an hour-long session where an audience of 30 people explore embodiments of natural elements of stone and water to form a river collectively, the artwork exists somewhere between performance and a space for healing and repair.
that which is not me,
but of which I am a part
An Ongoing Experiential Laboratorium of Technology, Resonance and Non-Human Agency
This changing and evolving artwork build partly on the sociological concept of Resonance, a mode of interacting with the world that is not based on control, and on the endangered non-photosynthesizing plant Monotropa Uniflora, also known as the Ghost Flower.
Can an artwork learn?
And then,
- where would the memory
be retained?
Symphony of a Missing Room is a series of mutating, site-sensitive works. A composite that builds on over a decade of tacit learnings from earlier environments. Commissions include Martin-Gropius-Bau, Royal Academy of Arts, Kassel Staatsteater coinciding with Documenta Fifteen, 8 Momentum Biennale, S.M.A.K, Centre Pompidou Metz, MMK Frankfurt, and Kochi Muziris Biennale.
Stromatolites (the second piece in the Eternal Return series) is an encounter with a digital entity modelled after the first form of memory, the single-cell bacteria, the oldest trace of life on earth, predating human experience by 3.7 billion years. Stromatolites become a human’s companions in this speculative fiction about deep-time co-dependence, within the cyclical nature of the universe.
Communication via technology always has to be passed through the monstrous bodies of technology.
Human settlements are becoming increasingly dense, while at the same time people are becoming increasingly lonely. The biotopes of animals coincide with those of humans, but this environment is deceptive and fraught with risk for individuals as well as for entire species.
Two works currently feature in the Unknown Cloud Series: Unknown Cloud on Its Way to... and Unknown Cloud Forming.
Programmed to evolve globally until 2057 as both a myth and a real, live phenomenon, the unknown cloud has appeared over large cities, remote villages, across national borders and international sea space. The series repurposes everyday technology to allow large groups of people to converge outdoors to take part in a collective experience that radically transforms the use of everyday technologies and repurposes them as intermediaries for new forms of art...
Talks and workshops with Lundahl & Seitl from recent years include MIT Open Documentary Lab (Sept 2022), in conversation with Barbara London at Scandinavia House NYC (Oct 2022), in conversation with Daniel Birnbaum and Johan Bettum at Breaking Glass III (May 2021)...
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