Gandom Akbari

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…

Mrs. Holle Just Left the Building

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…

Languida The audience is invited into a hypnagogic sci-lab, where the elegance of discarded materials is staged. They perform as embryonic creatures. I encountered the performative nature of matter in found objects, seeking to question the anthropocentric gaze of fruition. Collective dreams are released in an intimate space where the spectator’s usually peremptory gaze reformulates,…

No plan(t)sland DISORDERED UTOPIA, ECO-DYSTOPIAIS REPUGNANCE AND LOATHING OF THE PATTERN A NATURAL RESPONSE?Stavroula implements mannerisms of ordered natural repetition not to depict its utopianallure but rather to create a contrasting dystopian ecosystem; an oxymoron.This approach seeks to evoke mixed feelings and a sense of duality within a space,reflecting the complexity of every entity. The…

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…