18 Mar [krig]
[krig] is an artists collective who work mostly with sound and textile.
Karen has collected local fibres to elaborate her own ropes to work with.
The extensive presence of the plastic bottles led her to introduce them in the installation assimilating them as part of the landscape.
Inspired by the doomsday preppers videos, in which people show pragmatic knowledge to survive in natural environments in moments of crisis, they have found an alignment between their practice and this knowledge.
In terms of sound, they have been collecting field recordings of the area with which to compose the soundscape of the installation.
The residency program has been an idyllic time to dig into their creative process, finding ways to relate with such a new environment. At the same time, the constant rain, so rare in this area, as well as the resonance of the war we are now witnessing in Europe, permeate the whole work, overlapping the beauty of the moment with the preoccupation of a convulsive world in which the greed of humankind lid us to conflict and climate change.
Still, water reminds us of the complexity of our current reality: being both at the same time, a potential threat as well as the sap of life, it acts as a metaphor of the different directions -terrifying or hopeful- that events can take.
