exhibitions
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22 march, 2024 - V2_,
Rotterdam(NL)
25 - 28 september, 2024 - LTK4, Cologne (DE)
about numina gneisspecker
Numina
Gneisspecker started their collaboration making pirate radio from a
garage in a botanical garden. They use strategies from fields such as
fine art, field recording, hacking / coding, literature, radio, cinema
and electroacoustic music, and are inspired by writers such as Amitav
Ghosh, Andreas Malm, Rachel Carson, Mark Fisher, Lisa Doeland, Rob Nixon
and Sabu Kohso. They search for meaningful and valuable ways of
audiovisual storytelling and try to address the deepening crises of our
contemporary world. Next to the urgent and immediate action of
implementing radical, leftist politics and policies, Numina Gneisspecker
believe there is the need for the slow – though not less urgent –
communication of compelling narratives. They contribute to this
expanding space by peeling off the different layers of this
poly-catastrophic world, while simultaneously providing forms of hope
and sharing engaging perspectives on our singular yet – still fairly –
diverse Earth. Numina Gneisspecker currently consists of Sjoerd Leijten
and Stijn Verhoeff.
best
viewed on large screen and with proper speakers or
headphones
2023 - ongoing
Numina Gneisspecker developed a new
multi-channel audiovisual installation to draw ”attention
to catastrophic acts that are low in instant spectacle but
high in long-term effects” (Nixon).
Zooming in on the harbours of Antwerp and Rotterdam, the
two largest gateways into Europe’s economies, they find
concrete beaches stacked with containers, ships filled
with fossil fuels and many other elements fuelling our
societies and consequential destruction. Petrochemical
installations, (nuclear) power plants, distribution
centres pass by while the main narrator of this
installation, a trucker, tries to find some apocalyptic
hope in this highly automated, yet inhospitable landscape.
His warm and personal voice counterbalances his distant
and inert surroundings. Can we ”rediscover the earth
amongst its decomposition” (Kohso), he wonders.
Catastrophic Structures: listening to the hum of distant
machinery was first shown at V2_
tryday in March 2024.
best
viewed on large screen and with proper speakers or
headphones
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