ACTIVITY
On ‘Reclaiming Vision’
DATE
22.02.2020
Partner
Sonic Acts
Location
Amsterdam (NL)
Artist(s)
Marjolijn Dijkman, Toril Johannessen
Links
WebsiteBacteria, algae and other microbes are essential for the very being of life on earth. Marjolijn Dijkman and Toril Johannessen warn us that every second breath we take is produced by algae in the oceans. Those ideas are beautifully visualised in their film Reclaiming Vision, which is a topic of their lecture at the Academy conference.
A starting point of this talk is a film that was captured through a microscope. Its diverse cast of microorganisms were sampled from the brackish waters of the inner Oslo Fjord, alongside algae, cultivated at the University of Oslo. Starting from the assertion that looking evolved from the sea – eyes, in fact, evolved from marine algae – Reclaiming Vision takes the viewer on a journey through various ways of looking at, relating to and influencing nature.
Photo Pieter Kers