Akış Ka

The piece consists of a video and a 6 hours long performance. The video, cutting between a mosh-pit footage and a movie sequence of an olive tree, both of which were shot with a cell-phone, proposes a state of animistic transcendence, accompanied by a soundtrack of a shamanic drum.

The performance takes place in the same room the video is projected. The soundtrack is silenced, but the video keeps running. Three drum-sets are placed on different ends of the room. Three drummers play these drums at the same time for 6 uninterrupted hours. They may play in synch or cacophonically. Performers are asked to start a mosh-pit and sustain it for 6 hours, projecting the ritual, fictionalized by the video, onto real time and space. For 6 hours the video and the performance co-exist. The viewer may partake by observing both or participating in the performance.

We Are Seeds That Sprout Air is an investigation into crowd dynamics, as well as a proposal for a ritual of non-aggressive violence. In the face of our current reality; one of many imposed mass movements and motions, protests, celebrations, immediate responses to terror attacks by the present public, where a group of human beings are affected as a single body, it is an experiment in transformational imitation.