What if we dare to acknowledge our inner interconnectedness and vulnerability, and use our privileges and strengths to reposition ourselves?
The idea: to make the changing ice thickness of a glacier tangible in a walk-in air sphere. For the breathing frequency of the sphere, we used data on the ice volume of the Rhone Glacier from 1874 to 2100.
The experience of the glacier's "breathing" tells of intimacy and degrees of impact in relation to the planet. The changing shape of the aerial sphere draws boundaries between something that is lost and something new, while we are inseparably stuck in between all the time. In this way, the sphere of air raises the question of the relationship between size and vulnerability.
The forming process becomes a self-reflecting and self-dissolving hourglass
atmend was created in collaboration with Jana Mitnacht and was supported by Leonardo Zentrum für Innovation and Kreativität.
