Tides of Memories (ToM) – The Other Time I Drowned is a partly fictional, partly fact-based being that dreams of becoming water. It is disguised as a real-time audiovisual installation that speaks from the water’s perspective. ToM dreams of the migrational routes of water but fails to become it. She drowns and becomes another.
Through the work, water becomes imaginary, and we create an act of dreaming, mimicking an imagination foreseen to open something that is not ours – should it be the air, the mist or the horizon? The collaborative work explores the interplay between humans, machines, and ecologies. It invites the audience to journey through ToM‘s dreams and nightmares. Set in a speculative world, a machine grapples with its identity and is exposed to memories left in the water.
Artwork in collaboration with Célestin Meunier.
Creative technology: Alex Wenger
Sound Design: Sevki Argalioglu
Supported by the UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe Project Funding Program for Media Arts 2023.
Shown at Media art is here (2024).
Time: 03.08.2024 – 15.09.2024
Location: ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Museum Balcony
