During the “SHORTS trinational film festival”, the MobiLab will make a stop in Offenburg as a container cinema from 13 to 16 May 2025 and show the installation ‘BECOMING RIVER”’
The 2-channel video projection ‘BECOMING RIVER’ can be seen during the “SHORTS trinational film festival” of the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in the Bürgerpark near the Billetschen Schlösschen. The installation is part of the MobiLab tour and will be shown daily from 12 noon to 8 pm in a container cinema. Admission is free. On 14 May at 6 pm, there will be an introduction on site in the presence of the artists. Two further installations can also be explored around the MobiLab.
BECOMING RIVER
BECOMING RIVER sets in motion a stream of consciousness that conjures up the ghosts of repression. We use a floating probe as an oracle. The object drifts through wide meadow valleys and through straightened industrial canals, past paper mills and sewage treatment plants, it gets caught in the riverbank vegetation. Just as the unconscious is stirred up in dreams, the drifting is not subject to conscious will.
The technical debris meanders through the Murg, is washed away in rapids, only to reappear in an unexpected place. The return of the repressed does not happen in a linear fashion, but in a free flow – memories, fears and symbols overlap and intermingle. The experiences are stored in our bodies.
BECOMING RIVER was created as part of the research conducted by Daniel Fetzner, Adrian Schwartz, Janna Häcker, Simon Feller and Ephraim Wegner at the Laboratory for Media Ecology in collaboration with the Interreg-funded Clim’Ability Care research project. Over a period of three years, the team is researching life on, in and around the course of the River Murg and documenting the activities of the river and its inhabitants.
More information: http://becomingriver.com
DETAILS
BECOMING RIVER, 2-channel-video projection (Loop 20’)
WHERE?
MobiLab (Containercinema) in the Bürgerpark near the Billetschen Schlösschen
WHEN?
13 to 16 May 2025, 12:00 to 20:00
Free admission.
Barrier-free
