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I’m floating in the most peculiar way

Very exited to have been invited to participate and create my work I’m floating in the most peculiar way for Steiermarkschau 2023. It was amazing to pick the brains and collaborate with all the involved astronomers, astrophysicist and other scientists and after a lifetime of admiration have Stefan NĂ©meth create a soundtrack for me!

I will be there for the opening, so please come by and say hello if you are in the neighbourhood!

VIELFALT DES LEBENS. Steiermark Schau 2023. Mobiler Pavillon

DIVERSITY OF LIFE. SHOWING STYRIA 2023. Mobile pavilion

AtmosphÀren- Kunst, Klima- und Weltraumforschung / Atmospheres- art, climate and space research

In the mobile pavilion, a specific focus is directed towards the consequences of climate change in Styria. We compare the Earth’s atmosphere, which has already been changed by mankind, with the completely different atmospheres found on exoplanets. At the same time, this fascinating diversity of extraterrestrial skies shows how special the perfect balance of life and atmosphere is on our planet.

Heldenplatz Vienna (AT): Opening 22.03.2023, 18:00 / Duration: 23.03. – 03.04.2023

Tierwelt Herberstein (AT): Opening: 29.04.2023, 11:00 / Duration: 30.04. – 05.11.2023

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under the microscope

under the microscope is part of the beautiful program `The Celluloid SpecimenÂŽ at Labocine.

You can watch it until Jan 3rd at:

https://www.labocine.com/issues/the-celluloid-specimen

more details:

Our last issue of the year is an analogic trip down memory lane. In the book with the same title, the author Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa examines twentieth-century behaviorist films that captured animal experiments, revealing the central role of cinema in generating psycho-social definitions of species, race, identity, and culture that continue to shape our contemporary political and scientific discourses.

Our focus here is on the very nature of the specimen. It instantly becomes a contradiction when it is imprinted on celluloid: living, non-living, preserved, damaged, natural, artificial – all at once. A specimen encomapsses the animal, plant or organic fragment that collectively serve as evidence for an existing, forgotten or future species or ecosystem. A specimen is often a (proto)type for scientific study or display.

Welcome to our Cabinet of Curiosities : our collection of beautiful film-sensitive by-products that have evolved since the first light exposure. The frames feels like a genetic code that have mutated into new forms and shapes. Traces of animal life, landscapes that appear frozen in time, subliminal images with signs of wear and tear, all inhabited onto the black and white or the myriad of color-sensitive film stocks. They’re calling to be preserved even more in the digital age and have landed in the Science New Wave.

Are the individual pieces found footage or archive? Is the ensemble seemingly curated or perhaps a jumble that provides us new meanings and viewing experiences?

Curated by Alexis Gambis