Feb 22–Mar 30, 2019
Artists
The Iduna Institute for
Strategic Imitation & Delay and Amelia Groom
“Carbon dioxide is a by-product of breathing, released with every exhalation, when the lungs have taken what they want from the in-breath. Besides releasing chemical left-overs, air on its way out from the body can also be articulation – when exhaling involves the shaping of breath into speech. In solid form, carbon dioxide becomes dry ice – dense blocks of breath-waste, potential utterance, releasing gas that runs down instead of up, towards the earth, away from heaven… ” [Extract from audio track]
The Iduna Institute for Strategic Imitation & Delay is based in Amsterdam and devotes itself to sober renovations of the world-spirit.
Amelia Groom is a Berlin-based writer and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry.
WORKS
Iduna Institute for Strategic Imitation & Delay
and Amelia Groom
Cave Staples, 2019
audio track (29minutes) dry ice, plastic aquarium rock, bluetooth garden speaker (in the shape of a stone), studio speakers and meadia players, pebble mat.