Destabilised Common Grounds - Participatory Installation





The coronavirus crisis exposed our societies’ vulnerabilities and the disastrous ecological implications of nurturing competition and hierarchy.
Destabilised Common Grounds is a set of performative installations and workshops revealing the wisdom of moss colonies. It invites a deep engagement with a fascinating community that we tend to overlook - mosses.
Mosses are uncompetitive, slow and extremely resilient. Moss can survive long stressed conditions in drought or freeze due to its colony structure and sensitivity to environmental changes. Moss colonies are a fascinating antithesis to human capitalist value systems.
This project investigates how the interaction with a biological entity activates kinship and introduces a shift in the meaning of value.
Audiences are invited to influence the moss’s climate and see the impact of their actions on the moss landscape’s condition in real-time. The participants’ interventions act as a metaphor and as a reflective tool to human and non-human relationships.
This project sees the vital link between society and ecology and proposes bio-entities as an aid for true reciprocity within communities and the biosphere.
Destabilised Common Grounds
A performative installation and workshop revealing the wisdom of moss colonies. It invites a deep engagement with a fascinating community that we tend to overlook - mosses. In this project, audiences influence the moss’s climate and see the impact of their actions on the moss’s condition in real-time through two large projections.
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A performative installation and workshop revealing the wisdom of moss colonies. It invites a deep engagement with a fascinating community that we tend to overlook - mosses. In this project, audiences influence the moss’s climate and see the impact of their actions on the moss’s condition in real-time through two large projections.
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Data Fossils
A speculative project imagining futuristic archaeology and alien anthropological research. Assuming a site might completely demolish and the only remnant would be digital data from photos, how might a physical restoration look like if a machine is doing an automatic translation from 2D to 3D?
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A speculative project imagining futuristic archaeology and alien anthropological research. Assuming a site might completely demolish and the only remnant would be digital data from photos, how might a physical restoration look like if a machine is doing an automatic translation from 2D to 3D?
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Inflate
An experiential installation provoking against monopolism and dominance of a tiny oligarchy.
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An experiential installation provoking against monopolism and dominance of a tiny oligarchy.
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Moss exploration
“It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.”
[Paul Klee]
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“It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.”
[Paul Klee]
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