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| I Sat Above And Below The Ground - video still |
| A group of unknown beings have taken settlement. We invite you to witness their ceremony, among a collection of artefacts, syllables, materials, movements, mirrorings and inscriptions. I Sat Above And Below The Ground is the result of a collaboration I took on with visual artist Lily Dollner. Through setting up several algorithms, rulesets, and expeditions, we generated a collection of objects and according rituals. By complying with alternative intelligences, things inexplicably got concrete - objects lost and gained purpose and meaning, and were integrated in the past and future. In this, we were moved by the instructions and boundaries that were set. |
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| Collected objects |
| After a process of multiple relocations, we ended up organising our exhibition in an abandonded building in Groningen's busiest shopping street. The building, previously a men's clothing store, turned excavational, bare, like something had happened. It became a site of desolate future ruins, where all of the present had fully passed. And in this landscape, three beings landed. |
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| I Sat Above And Below The Ground, video stills |
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| Wood scratch tools and rattly bones | Metal scratch tools and resonators |
Wood tablets |
Wood scratch tools |
Throughout the process, a group of objects and things emerged, in which functionality and sculpturality pushed against each other. These semi-tools also fluctuated from being placed clinically in space to violently being used as tools to smash and scratch. |
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| I Sat Above And Below The Ground - Reprise. Installation close-ups. |
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| Untitled I, Lily Dollner | Untitled II, Lily Dollner |