Video installation, projection on draped silk, 160 x 110 cm
House of Simultaneous Arrivals, Domenig Steinhaus, Steindorf, Austria, 2025
The video was also showed in Solids in Revolution, Neue Galerie Graz, 2025
The exhibition featured contributions by: Andrea Bakketun, Susanne Bosch, Nayarí Castillo, Ludvig Elblaus, Fulya Uçanok, Franziska Hederer, Daniele Pozzi, Elena Redaelli, Charlotta Ruth, Hanns Holger Rutz. Both exhibitions were part of the artistic research project Simultaneous Arrivals (simularr), an artistic research project on novel forms of collaborative practices within the PEEK framework of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, running from 2022 until 2026.
From catalogue:
Air creates rhythms and shapes. Links the body to the world. Water cools, flows, enhances, encapsulates and soaks. Earth stabilizes, sprinkles, carries and offers.
Fire heats, melts, sparkles in the clouds. Electricity flows. Space houses, amplifies, echoes, connects the previous four.
The basic elements (earth, water, air, fire and space) served as recognizable portals, being in an unfamiliar place, together with a myriad of new acquaintances. During the intensive weeks of Simultaneous Arrivals (Simularr), in a slope in the steep Saager valley, Bakketun observed and exchanged with both the artistic practices and the surrounding ecosystem. The video is composed by footage from the site — landscapes, characters and new creations — and audio recordings made during the two weeks there. Several of the participants in Simularr had practices exploring the reflective, sensory quality of breath and voice, linked to space. The interplay of air, voice, and the body became a means of connection — to oneself, others, and the world, which in the setting of the research on artistic collaboration became especially interesting to explore.