Multi channel video-Installation with objects, loop, stereo, 41’12” + ‘Scattered Glossary’ project artist book (120 pages)
The immersive multi-channel installation Scattered Sea is intricately designed with five white shallow water pools, conceptually ornamentally shaped, into which three long, semi-transparent projection veils flow from above. Visitors move freely between the projected images. The installation runs in a loop accompanied by synchronous filmic sound.Viewers are invited to linger in the installation while resting on beanbags and carpets.
Video-Loop, 3 Kanal-Projektion
ABOUT
Peculiar yet strangely familiar performative movements traverse throughout the films. Fifteen performers from North Africa and Europe interact and relate to each other. Through their presence and minimal gestures, they create hybrid spaces of action, intertwining, allowing closeness yet maintaining distance. Symbols are traced and deconstructed, space is negotiated, questioned, written on with sand. Ruins, a garden and streets are roamed. Boundaries are felt, blurred and redrawn. The search for traces transforms into the placing, scattering of traces. Seemingly aimless wandering leads to the sea, which repeatedly eludes them. In a magical moment, during an endless transition to twilight, new islands are built between the continents. The cool vastness of the sea meets the touch of warm, vulnerable hands.
Scattered Sea was filmed in Morocco, Malta and Germany. It forms a fragmentary associative attempt to dissect and interweave concepts and symbols in context of interculturality, territoriality, ’opacité’ according to Edouard Glissant and decoloniality, specifically touching upon tensions between the MENA and Maghreb regions with Europe. Performative sequences alternate with documentary instants, irritated by magical realist insertions.
The subversive visuals explore the question of how people in a multi-relational world can engage with the rifts of entangled historical traumas, a tense and fractured present, power imbalances and the longing for belonging and connection across borders, in order to invent new forms of exchange and dare to initiate fragile beginnings, and thus, as defined by Hannah Arendt, natality.
Installationsfotos
CREW
Lia Sáile – Direction, editing, sound design
Katja Rivas Pinzon – Director of Photography
Laura Engelhardt – Sound on set, assistant director
Lisa Domin-Alouane – Consulting, assistant editor
Michael Reder – Catering , Childcare
Florian Dedek – Childcare, Sound
Patrick Buchta – VFX
Adriana Lemus – Layout, 3D Design, Consulting
Jeesoo Hong – Foley Sound, Sound Design
Lutz Menzel, Marcel Zaes – Assistant sound
Jilan Hosni – Translation, Arabic Handwriting
Abir Talibi – Arabic Handwriting
phanton – Music
Faia Younan – Music
PERFORMERS
Siham El Habhab, Abir Talibi,
Yassine El Atlassi, Fatima Zahrae,
Fatima Joudairi, Mehdi Mzaher,
Mehdi El Essaadi, Aymane Fares,
Nehad Bensalem, Wiam Baba,
Wissal Mrabet, Lisa Domin-Alouane,
Lia Sáile, Laura Engelhardt, Hannah Wetterich