Videoinstallation: Between the Waves – Tejal Shah
2023-11-30
30.11.2023-15.1.2024
Kunstraum
How to engage with toxic environments, not only in a metaphorical but also in a literal sense? The five-channel video installation Between the Waves, 2012, is a “circular fable, a new cosmology bearing a strong commentary on the Anthropocene”, as the artist Tejal Shah puts it. Between the Waves imagines the “possible scope of what remains” (Shah). In their video installation, we see a burning moon, an animation of a mechanistic-organic being, unicorn-like protagonists in costumes made out of garbage lying on a polluted shore or arranging colorful plastic sponges under water. The protagonists are making kin with the more-than-human. Becoming insects on a landfill, harvesting plastic in a mangrove forest, assimilating and dissimilating no-longer-bodies and no-longer-things, becoming the other by touch and sex, diving in water, dancing in garbage. “In this work, everything is touched and portrayed as a sensitive, excitable surface, inseparable from everything else.” (Miro Spinelli)
The installation is part of the seminar “Art and Extractivism” (MA) and the lecture series “Climate Catastrophes. Perspectives from Cultural Studies” (BA).
Opening Hours: Tu/We/Th, noon - 4pm, and by appointment: christopher.weickenmeier@leuphana.de
Introduction by Prof. Dr. Susanne Leeb on 13.1.2024 13:00, 11.1.24 14:30