Moor Reactor

Installative sound performance

Terrariums filled with soil, plants and water in the center of the room: bogs.

They are the source of everything the audience hears, sees and experiences during this performance. These living, breathing, active circulatory systems use sensors and artistic interventions to control the sound, light, and choreography of the performance process: reactors.

The two artists Kurt Holzkämper (Ludwigsburg) and Phillip Staffa (Berlin) extract data and sounds from these bog reactors in real time at different laboratory locations, explore them, process them, deform them and bring them into the room on different levels of appearance. In addition, further information on the data from the swamp reactor can be experienced via projected text panels and audio stations. The audience moves freely in the space and decides for themselves which process to attend. During the exhibition period, the irrigated terrariums are drained and slowly emptied - a symbol of the centuries-old practice of draining the moors to obtain fuel, peat and pastures with all its dramatic consequences for our climate. As blurred spaces of convergence, moors hover between earth, water and air, a living place of transit. Water is the driving force of their constantly changing processes.

We enter this self-regulating order system of the moor.

Dates:

May 21st 2023 // Award Ceremony / DokKa Dokumentarfilm-Festival Karlsruhe
April 1st 2023 // Urholz Gallery, Eppingen / Live-Performance with Phillip Staffa & Kurt Holzkämper / www.urholz.de