Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Participant
Nina Canell, SE
Nina Canell, Shedding Skin (Perpetual Current for 24 Buckets), 2008 © Manifesta 7/Wolfgang Träger.
240 litres of water, buckets, steel, hydrophones, amplifiers, clay, ultrasound generators, drum skins, relay timers, cables
Installation exhibited at Stazione Ferroviaria in Rovereto
Nina Canell’s installation is an assemblage of audible and inaudible sound, electricity, humidity, light, found objects and water. The work is characterised by process and a deliberate entanglement of transfers that foreground material agency.