Grasping (at) the Ocean / Fathoming the Interface

Konstakademien, 2023

LED-display, Video (MiniDV & HD) 08:00 min, tactile transducers & steel

I always loved being under water

visiting the volumetric

our world is a container

while squid measure space in spirals

fathom, from faethm, meaning 'the embracing of arms'

a nautical term for six feet

as a verb, 'fathom' means to plumb the ocean depths

This site does not exist

what was captured at 25 frames per second

now interpolated

closer to algorithmic animation

and romanticized family memory

than an actual document of the ocean

navigating the volume is not like navigating on land

as with hearing

distances are different here

and the pressure

3 times atmospheric pressure

like a solid embrace

grasped by the water

or fathomed