Gandom Akbari

Bambambam There is no Country but childhood’s (R. Barthes) A theatrical performance between tenderness and morbidity. Are we ever truly innocent? A conversation between our inner space and the very special space of this abandoned factory. This special space, a huge room without windows, became part of the performance. The sound had an intense reverberation…

Asya Birsel and Robert Selim Hill The all-wind gravedigger “Well… the sea does what it wants. They may have all died together, on the same day or night, but the sea probably spat them out in disorder… The sea is like that…You know, my problem is plastic sheeting… I never have enough for all the corpses…”from an interview…

Wild Thyme Music #3 – A Sonic Interaction In 2004, musicologist Helga de la Motte Haber told me about composer Rolf Julius’ idea for a sound installation next to a highway that would make you forget the sound of traffic. The idea of such an ‘acoustic hole’, as she called it, has fascinated me ever…

Artificial Jellyfish Artificial Jellyfish is a series of objects designed to drift in thewater or sit elsewhere on the ground. The chosen design references onone hand a poignant symbol of the beauty and fragility of our oceans andon the other reminds us of plastic contaminants. While drifting inwaters or sitting elsewhere on the ground, the…

Authentic The first photo with the golden frame around the overgrown tree on the concrete, is a hymn to Nature and expresses the need to protect it, recognizing its authenticity and value.  Placing the frame around the element of nature symbolizes our distance from it as an experience while showing that we are now approaching it,…

a ringing telephone from which a possible past can be heard