Sandberg Instituut: Sea Foam
ResearchLabs 2024: Sandberg Instituut
Research Labs is a hub for students of academies and universities who flock to present their own work and view that of others. This screening Sandberg Institute on sea foam.
Sea foam is created by the agitation of seawater. It is churned up by breaking waves in the surf zone near shore; the surfactants in these turbulent conditions trap air and form persistent bubbles sticking together by surface tension. Every transformation requires movement from one state to another. Moving entities are integral parts of life, pulling us towards the invisible, the ever-changing, the unstable, the unprotected and the multifaceted.
A 'sense of change' is essential for survival for any animal. We know the importanceof change because we are acutely aware of the emotional responses it evokes in us:anything that moves through time and space also moves through our feelings.We tend to see and feel more as distance increases, not less, because we replacethe physical with thought and feeling. However, transformation happens by collision. Therefore, we become transformed by what touches us.
Dialogue
Perhaps, if we can reversethe relationship, distance dissolves. In the basic condition of our understanding, everything that enters consciousness is experienced as a part, and a continuation of the self. The objects merge with our experiences, in body, in memory, in inner anticipation, in the murmur of sound, in the quickening or slowing of pulse and breath. What cannot be changed externally can be brought into dialogue, imagination and words, like the foam carried by the sea.
A dialogue is woven between video work by Lova Ranung, soundscapes by Maria Landgren Hilmersson, sculpture and text by Yan-Bing Wu, and costume design by Agnese Smaldone.
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Production year
2024
Length
50 min.
Event language
English
Country
NL
Part of
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