Research Projects
& Productions

BEYOND THE WALLS: THE LAWN THAT IS MY CHEST

Commissioned by Kunsthaus Baurs Park and presented during Hamburg Art Week and Tag des offenen Denkmals, this site-specific soundwalk explores Katharinenhof in Blankenese, Hamburg as a place in transition. While the historic building remains closed during its transformation into the future Kunsthaus Baurs Park, the work invites visitors to encounter the site from its threshold, through listening, walking and sensory attention.
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AFTER THE SPILL

After The Spill unfolds through two juxtaposed elements: a sound sculpture and an audiovisual installation. Drawing on the concept of hydrojustice (A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos), the work stages the Rhine as an active agent which carries industrial memory and toxicity beyond visibility.

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ANCESTORS OF THE FUTURE

Video work using the migratory cycle and existential predicament of the eel to delve into how human interference disrupts ecosystems and habitats across the globe. By narrating the story from the perspective of an eel, the artists try to challenge hegemonic and violent forms of subjectivation which have produced this anthropocentric moment.

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AN ARCHIVE OF COLLAPSED COLLECTIVE MEMORY

For the festival betweenEbbandFlow: interstitial spaces, The New Liquidity investigated the harbour as a metaphorical space of transition and transcorporeality within a hydrofeminist and posthumanist discourse.

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MEMENTO MARITSA

As a part of their ongoing series De-territorialized Listenings for ContextAiR Plovdiv, The New Liquidity and Voin de Voin presented a site-specific intervention focused on the river Maritsa. Maritsa constitutes the largest unused public space of Plovdiv, making it into one of the most desolate places in the city, largely forgotten by its inhabitants.

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THE SOUND OF RUINS

During their residency at AADK/Centro Negra in Blanca, Murcia, Spain, The New Liquidity focused on exploring and listening to the sound of ruins not only to rescue a forgotten past but to reveal displaced memories of their petrified landscape. Through direct interaction with the local community (i.e recorded interviews and discussions) combined with geographical, historical and material research on-site.

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IMPULSE

At Københavns Internationale Teater’s/Metropolis’ residency ”From Metropolis to Ecopolis” on Refshaleøen The New Liquidity took the first steps in further exploring the interactive framework of their ongoing project De-territorialized Listenings. Here the duo turned towards the liminal triadic overlap between individual agency, collective interaction/performativity and site specificity. Can collective agency manifest itself through specific historic and social layers of a place?

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PEOPLE OF EELS

Underwater Cosmologies - People of Eels uses the migratory cycle of the Ohrid eel to focus on Lake Ohrid’s environmental landscape and challenges, as well as the historical narratives of the region. By investigating the lake as a deep archive The New Liquidity set out to examine water’s fluid heritage as a place of geo-cultural and human-nonhuman memory.

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TIDES IN THE BODY

In an attempt towards decolonizing time and reconnecting to our embodied selves, The New Liquidity is proposing a slow float - a guided meditation for reimagining our corporealities. It is focused on the liminal ecotone of Lake Balaton as a body of water, but also a place of transition and transformation.

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POSTCARDS FROM BALATON

In an attempt towards decolonizing time and reconnecting to our embodied selves, The New Liquidity proposes a slow float - a guided meditation for reimagining our corporealities. It is focused on the liminal ecotone of Lake Balaton as a body of water, but also a place of transition and transformation.

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FADE IN BY WATER, DROWN OUT BY WIND

In the Roman thermal baths of Villa Romana di Casignana, situated above the E90 national road which cuts the still active archeological site in two, The New Liquidity staged a sonic intervention intended to regenerate fleeting traces of an absent past in order to play with the intimacy of a different possible reality.

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MAGNITUDE OF MEMORIES OF MAGNITUDE

During their first research period at the nomadic site-specific residency In Ruins, The New Liquidity focused on contemporary readings of Mediterranean archeological sites predominantly in Calabria, Italy. In the ruins of the San Domenico Convent in Polo Museale di Soriano Calabrohe the artists engaged in various kinds of deep listening to the sound of the ruins, not only to rescue their forgotten past, but also to reveal displaced memories of their petrified landscape.

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