Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies
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Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies is a short film that traverses the volatile terrains of Campi Flegrei, Mount Vesuvius, Vulcano Island in Italy, and the retreating Pasterze glacier in Austria, interweaving these landscapes with scenes from the art studio and reflective questions. Through this constellation of film fragments, the work meditates on how seismic shifts in the external environment resonate within the human body and psyche. As the narrative unfolds, its focus shifts to seismic zones, where tectonic instability is no longer purely natural but increasingly shaped by human activity: climate change, groundwater extraction, mining, and waste.

Lucie Strecker

Nikolaus Gansterer

Mariella Greil

Peter Kozek

Victor Jaschke

Werner Moebius
Nikolaus Gansterer is an artist who incorporates performances, blackboard assemblages and maps as part of a practice that explores the relation between micro and macro systems, atmospheres and geological sites. Drawing, thinking and action are intertwined in dynamic seismographic diagrams. www.gansterer.org
Mariella Greil focuses on contemporary performance, especially its ramifications into the choreographic and the ethical. She develops a politicized and ethico-aesthetic practice and asks how artistic strategies can support the development of future scenarios of living responding to global urgencies. www.mariellagreil.net
Victor Jaschke, a filmmaker, and interactor, approaches people as animals, with a provoked basic trust in our essentiality. After four decades, he is still amazed by the concentrated images that enter the quiet chamber of his camera: what there is to see when you look back, free from expectations of interaction! A camera makes love easy. www.victorja.com
Peter Kozek takes a nuanced yet personal artistic perspective to work on local conditions and landscapes, and their histories, presents, and futures, as well as their economic and social nature. Through his art and performance practice, regions become transfer spaces between myths, realities, and fictional and constructed worlds. kozekhoerlonski.com
Werner Moebius works between visual art and music in the expanded field of sonic art and aesthetic practice. He deals with the plasticity of sounds in acoustic, intermedial and performative contexts and facilitates dialogues in the field between new music, electroacoustic improvisation, conceptual art, weird beats and artistic research. For his work he has been awarded, among others, the City of Vienna Prize and BMUKK scholarships for Chicago and Mexico City. www.wernermoebius.net
Lucie Strecker is an artist, performer, and researcher with a focus on experimental systems within performance art. She considers microperformativity as a way to question human levels of perception––both spatial and temporal—emphasizing biological and technological micro agencies in relation to art and history. luciestrecker.com


