ACCUMULATIONS – PROJECT STATEMENT

Accumulations is a multi screen installation based around different concepts of energy. A system consisting of various animations are displayed simultaneously on different screens. Originally screened as a single video, each scene is now presented on its own, encouraging the audience to compare the different forms, structures and rhythms. This way, the animated movements within each image becomes constant, rather than being subject to a conventional narrative structure, making it easier to observe each element independently or as part of a larger context.

I want to take the notion of energy – which today is very much an ambiguous term which lends itself to science and faith, fact and fiction, appearing in discourse and depictions of everything from chemistry and biology to religion and pop culture – and pull it in all sorts of directions. The goal is not to narrow it down or attempt to define the term, but rather retain its ambiguity, by imagining a system of images and symbols that evoke different ideas and ideal. My approach is pretending that everything is connected – much in the way the written language can be a common ground for different expressions – thus amplifying the ambiguity. I am interested in the notion of energy as an abstract entity, seemingly meaningless on its own, while also reasonably flexible, informed by all sorts of assumptions and theories. Depending on the context, it might be concrete, spiritual, unpredictable or straightforward. In the context of ACU, energy represents an unknown factor – a mysterious core – around which a system of form and movement is built. While the forms themselves might not be immediately recognizable, their movements are based on observation of natural processes.