Evocation of Absent Landscapes

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In her multisensory installation Evocation of Absent Landscapes at DAS WEISSE HAUS, artist and choreographer Claudia Bosse continues her research project ‘haunted landscape/s’ with theatercombinat. The ‘haunted landscape/s’ series considers the planet as an organism scarred by human intervention. Bosse seeks aesthetic means to make the rift created by humans in the living environment perceptible through the senses, and to explore transhuman narratives in collaboration with artists and experts.

In Evocation of Absent Landscapes, Bosse transforms DAS WEISSE HAUS into a walk-in space for absent landscapes. These landscapes are criss-crossed by traces left behind by their human and non-human inhabitants. She conjures up encounters with them, with their fissures and wounds. Salt, sand, mud, wool and hair trickle and drip, occupying the gallery’s vertical and horizontal axes. The spread-out materials meet video works in which bodies encounter landscapes 11.000 km abroad. The encounters attract and repel, tear open and shake. Between the organic and the inorganic, the soft and the fluid, between sound and video, a tangible third place emerges, an experiential, hybrid in-between.

Alongside the opening performance on June 30, the multimedia installation by Claudia Bosse and invited artists will be activated and transformed or haunted by figures that invite alternative interpretations. Through their bodies and voices, they evoke absent landscapes and encourage us to consider the world from a planetary perspective or interpret it differently.