https://miriamsentler.com Miriam Sentler Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:50:56 +0000 https://miriamsentler.com en https://miriamsentler.com/Recent-and-upcoming Sun, 04 Oct 2020 11:56:16 +0000 Miriam Sentler https://miriamsentler.com/Recent-and-upcoming <img width="3200" height="2133" width_o="3200" height_o="2133" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09abdc9cc179e57f8eee9300bdce75d0b8bf403cb86c673a2aef37331b503ffd/29--Winderfully-Powerfool-Vikings---On-3.jpg" data-mid="247587397" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/09abdc9cc179e57f8eee9300bdce75d0b8bf403cb86c673a2aef37331b503ffd/29--Winderfully-Powerfool-Vikings---On-3.jpg" />Image: Up Helly Aa act “WINDerfully Powerfool Vikings,” 2010. Credits. UHA Committee 27 April 2026 | Lunch Seminar “Green Acts: The Fantastical (Re)Imagination of the Green Energy Frontier in Shetland”&nbsp;at OCEH LabThis talk presents research from the final chapter of Miriam Sentler’s doctoral thesis project, exploring how Shetlanders use motifs from mythology and science fiction in creative performances to navigate the practical implications of the renewable energy era.&nbsp;The dissertation project Energy Acts investigates how Shetlanders have encountered different forms of energy over time, using their creative island culture to “translate” oil, wind, and other energy industries operating in the context of the North Sea and the Northern Atlantic.&nbsp;Focusing on archival material showcasing satirical performances about energy production within the framework of Shetland’s community festival Up-Helly-Aa between 1925 and 2025, the project analyses how these performances visualise complex negotiation processes between islanders and different industries. Time and place:&nbsp;Apr. 27, 2026 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM, OCEH Lab, 4th floor, P.A. Munchs hus, University of Oslo <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/725edcd1c17eb05da44e2bdbde541c85c2f60093a1ff38d49da345248c5236d2/DSC06332-2.JPG" data-mid="245603853" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/725edcd1c17eb05da44e2bdbde541c85c2f60093a1ff38d49da345248c5236d2/DSC06332-2.JPG" /> Image: Miriam Sentler/ Deep Time Agency, 2025. 03 March 2026&nbsp;| Blog Post “Oil Pigs: The Moving Energy Theatre and Performing the Archive in Shetland” at SGSAH Blog In the first in a series of posts from the British Council Scotland - Scottish Graduate School of the Humanities’ EARTH Scholarship Scheme, guest blogger Miriam Sentler shares her creative research methodology in the context of Shetland’s changing energy landscapes and industries. Practicing creative research methods for her doctoral thesis resulted in&nbsp;The Moving Energy Theatre (TMET) (2025), a self-initiated research-creation project in collaboration with artist and Deep Time Agency co-founder Wouter Osterholt and curator Anna Tudos. Read the post here <img width="2048" height="1183" width_o="2048" height_o="1183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ecc3a5dfe53dfd47542059ae776ce166e2623a80aa32ba8f383de834c4f31e29/yearimage.jpg" data-mid="240296590" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ecc3a5dfe53dfd47542059ae776ce166e2623a80aa32ba8f383de834c4f31e29/yearimage.jpg" /> Image: RADIUS CCA 29 November 2025&nbsp;| CHARITY AUCTION — FIVE YEARS RADIUS! On the eve of our fifth anniversary in 2026, we'd like to celebrate the past years of RADIUS's creation with you. Therefore, we cordially invite you to the RADIUS Charity AUCTION on Saturday, November 29th, starting at 3:00 PM. The auction will feature works by artists who have been part of the RADIUS program in recent years and have thus become part of the broader RADIUS ecosystem.Participating artists: Maarten Bel, Catelijne Boele, Suzette Bousema, Daan Couzijn, Gabi Dao, Wim van Egmond, Wapke Feenstra, Alma Heikkilä, Ro Heinrich, Alice Ladenburg, Pilar Mata Dupont, Vera Mennens, Erik Peters, Erika Roux, Miriam Sentler, Natalia Sorzano, Jonas Staal &amp; Radha D'Souza, Elisa Strinna, Jun Zhang, Milah van Zuilen en vele anderen... Read more <img width="5500" height="3667" width_o="5500" height_o="3667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c75d4348e7c71544e176622275da59add0fa3bac31627e00696120bce7a19f5/DSC_9255-HDR.jpg" data-mid="235990857" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c75d4348e7c71544e176622275da59add0fa3bac31627e00696120bce7a19f5/DSC_9255-HDR.jpg" /> ©️LNDW Studio/ Museum Rijswijk TEXTILE BIENNIAL 2025 | Group Exhibition at Museum Rijswijk, NL&nbsp;(22 June - 16 November 2025)Museum Rijswijk is happy to announce the participating artists of the ‘Textile Biennial 2025. Interwoven Futures’:Fatima Barznge, Céline Berger, Annabelle Binnerts, Elen Braga, Penelope Cain, Oana Clitan, Anna Hoetjes, Afra Eisma, Susanne Khalil Yusef, Servet Koçyiğit, Kwinnie Lê, Metahaven, De Onkruidenier, Cristina Flores Pescorán, Ada M. Patterson, Oscar Santillán, Miriam Sentler, Jolanda Schouten, Tenant of Culture &amp; Bruno ZhuUtopias and dystopias have captured the imagination for centuries. In the Textile Biennial 2025. Interwoven Futures, twenty (inter)national artists explore ideal worlds and warning doom scenarios through innovative and inspiring textile artworks. From delicately woven to strikingly colourful, this versatile exhibition presents a colourful array of works about the social and ecological challenges we face. Read more <img width="932" height="1168" width_o="932" height_o="1168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be43e3a870c6107df63ad6195fc170116c52ffa6771a46a074da57ef4def9e40/Schermafbeelding-2025-07-15-om-14.25.16.png" data-mid="235826754" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/932/i/be43e3a870c6107df63ad6195fc170116c52ffa6771a46a074da57ef4def9e40/Schermafbeelding-2025-07-15-om-14.25.16.png" /> Artwork by Martin Foucaut OUT OF PLACE&nbsp; | Group Exhibition at TENT Rotterdam, NL (18 Juli - 26 October 2025)This July, Wasteland Festival returns with Out of Sight, a city-wide, interdisciplinary festival that explores hidden infrastructures and ecologies of waste through exhibitions, workshops, tours, conversations and performances. Across multiple locations — including TENT, the Nieuwe Instituut, Gemaal op Zuid and Roodkapje — the festival invites audiences to reflect on how waste shapes urban life, both visible and invisible. As part of Wasteland’s main programme, TENT presents an interactive summer exhibition – Out of Sight: Out of Place – that invites children and families to explore the worlds of urban waste through play, imagination and discovery. Through interactive artworks, tactile installations and guided discovery, the exhibition allows young visitors to experience and reflect on what waste is, how we live with it, and where it goes once it disappears from view. The exhibition brings together a vibrant mix of artworks and installations: from interactive play areas surrounded by hedges and fences, to triptychs, wall drawings, river objects and clay sculptures, theatrical sets and sound artworks made from waste materials. In addition to the artworks in the exhibition space, the program also invites visitors to venture out into the city with a series of monthly, artist-led activities that explore Rotterdam’s waste infrastructures up close. Visitors of all ages are encouraged to participate in these performative excursions: What makes something waste? Where does it go once it’s out of sight? What creatures live with it, care for it, or make it their home? How far does it travel? And can we imagine a future city without waste? With Maud van den Beuken, Elvira van Bronckhorst, Caz Egelie, Goblin Feast, AZ OOR, Mathilde Patuelli &amp; Roberta di Cosmo, Coen Ringeling, Sigrid Schmeisser, Miriam Sentler, Yeon Sung and Werner van der Zwan &amp; Gökay Atabek, Cecilia Moisio Company &amp; Maas theater and dance. Read more <img width="1600" height="1024" width_o="1600" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dbbeecf44a65dfd6840631ce1189da8284c5d91250e1102314dc34285fdc37d3/whatsapp-image-2024-02-21-at-20.35.34.jpeg" data-mid="226937137" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dbbeecf44a65dfd6840631ce1189da8284c5d91250e1102314dc34285fdc37d3/whatsapp-image-2024-02-21-at-20.35.34.jpeg" />©️ The Moving Energy Theatre Project Sketch, Deep Time Agency 2025. The Moving Energy Theatre | Artistic &amp; Thesis Research Project in Orkney and the Shetland Isles, UK, Sponsored by the EARTH Sholarship and Mondriaan Fund (24th of May - 6th of July ‘25) &nbsp;Iin collaboration with The University of Highlands and Islands (UK), the University of Oslo (NO), art space Gaada (UK), Deep Time Agency and curator and producer Anna Tudos, I will start my interdisciplinary research project The Moving Energy Theatre in the context of the Shetland Islands. The case study that underpins TMET focuses on what I came to call “energy acts” happening in the framework of Shetland’s famous Up Helly Aa festival. The energy acts show in imaginative ways how the Shetlanders reacted to the coming of energy companies to their islands.&nbsp;TMET contextualizes this archival material and takes place in two stages. It is both academic and artistic in its nature. During my guest stay at the University of Highlands and Islands with mentor Antonia Thomas, I will start by conducting comparative background research in Orkney to map the broader context of creative performances about energy production happening in the northern isles of Scotland. My project will link to UHI’s ongoing TRANSECTS project, researching community-owned archives in order to find creative ways of exploring the impact of marine energy transitions in island communities. The stay at UHI in the spring of 2025 will lead up to the prospective second stage of the project happening in Shetland during the following summer. In this second stage I will travel with a team to Shetland and collaborate with local hobby-actors, costume-makers, and the art space Gaada to re-stage some of the archival acts in the middle of the energy-production landscapes where they are about. TMET is of a timely quality as it takes place in Shetland during the advent of the Rosebank oil field. In this context, it aims to promote discussion about energy production. TMET is funded by a Project Grant from the Mondriaan Fund (NL) and the EARTH Scholarship (UK) <img width="1161" height="1291" width_o="1161" height_o="1291" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10e1d0e2150e7ed456fb394b2e17864685f26e152b4a490d8033d34e74d8a601/PHOTO-2025-04-25-10-14-46.jpg" data-mid="232767372" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10e1d0e2150e7ed456fb394b2e17864685f26e152b4a490d8033d34e74d8a601/PHOTO-2025-04-25-10-14-46.jpg" /> Photo: SGSAH/ Lewis Wood EARTH Scholarship | SGSAH-Funded Cohort and Research Stay in Orkney Islands, UK&nbsp;(23 April - 10th of May ‘25)The British Council Scotland SGSAH EARTH Scholarships 2025 is a programme run by SGSAH with funding from the British Council. It enables international research collaborations between PhD and Early Career Researchers and Scottish HEIs and Scotland-based academic mentors, and external organisations, thematically focused on environmental arts and humanities and their interdisciplinary connections.&nbsp; In collaboration with The University of Highlands and Islands (UHI) under the supervision of Dr Antonia Thomas, Miriam will start her interdisciplinary research project The Moving Energy Theatre (TMET) in the context of her Ph.D. thesis in Orkney and the Shetland Islands. During her first stay at UHI she will conduct comparative background research in Orkney to map the broader context of creative performances about energy production happening in the northern isles of Scotland. Her project will link to UHI’s ongoing TRANSECTS project, researching community-owned archives in order to find creative ways of exploring the impact of marine energy transitions in North Sea island communities. Learn more <img width="1500" height="964" width_o="1500" height_o="964" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/153fde77f69ca5ec8a6d8db400e153e0932ec173a3c3909adfc2a38b71b59d56/covermetode.jpg" data-mid="226936026" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/153fde77f69ca5ec8a6d8db400e153e0932ec173a3c3909adfc2a38b71b59d56/covermetode.jpg" /> Screenshot METODE website, feb. 2025.&nbsp;©️ “Energy act” Small Fry in Oil (1973), Up Helly Aa Committee Archive, accessed 2024. “How to Act on Oil” in METODE #3 Currents | Peer-Reviewed&nbsp;Essay Published with Rom for Kunst of Arkitektur &amp; Lofoten International Art Biennale (13 Feb ‘25)Metode vol. 3 «Currents» consist of seven experimental essays written by Miriam Sentler, Martin White, Sol Archer, Alena Beth Rieger/Jumana Manna/Drew Snyder, Åsne Kummeneje Mellem/Tarja Tuulia Salmela/Gyrid Øyen, Ian Callender/Yueyang Luo/Ann Wang, and Elisabeth Brun/Katja Pratschke/Gusztáv Hámos. In addition, Alison Burstein, You Nakai and Sigbjørn Skaaden were invited to write key essays for this third volume of Metode. These were launched during the opening weekend of LIAF in September.&nbsp;The starting point for the Open Call for experimental essays, launched in March 2024, was Kjersti Solbakken's curatorial approach to use LIAF as a platform to take a closer look at local stories, archives, collections, and conditions that can help uncover our recent history. The Open Call asked how have artists, curators, philosophers, and art theorists used local heritage for current critiques. How can this tendency be historized and theorized? Which projects are forgotten forerunners in the arts-based turn to local heritage? How do contemporary art practices negotiate between art, cultural and/or natural heritage to provide ethical remedies for the challenges that lie ahead? Read the essays here <img width="987" height="855" width_o="987" height_o="855" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e70415254960a5bf513360ec8d4002edd48cbc09dc6d79299be55f846f0e45e/189364-189368.jpeg" data-mid="226936702" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/987/i/3e70415254960a5bf513360ec8d4002edd48cbc09dc6d79299be55f846f0e45e/189364-189368.jpeg" />Bairns Times. Photo: The Shetland Times/ Gaada. “Bairns’ Times - Call for Authors of 1973 Childrens’ Stories about Oil&nbsp;| Interview with&nbsp;BBC Radio Shetland &amp; The Shetland Times&nbsp;(13 + 14 Feb ‘25)For my thesis research project&nbsp;Burn Up the Oil Dragon: Imagining and Performing Energy Discourse through Creativity and Storytelling in the Shetland Isles I have reached out to the local Shetland press. This was done in order to find individuals who contributed to a 1973 magazine, titled Bairns’ Times,&nbsp;displaying imaginative ways of reacting to oil.&nbsp;People are invited to email: toogs@gaada.org&nbsp;with any information about the former pupils current day whereabouts.During my Ph.D. in Petroculture Studies at the University of Oslo (2023-2027), I research how Shetlanders utilize their culture to translate and aestheticize oil- and other energy production in and around the North Sea. Using comparative analysis, artistic research and ecocriticism as methods, this dissertation project analyses the Shetland culture between 1972-2024. By highlighting different objects of analysis from Shetland's archives I foreground the imaginative ways in which the islanders reacted to the coming of corporate energy companies and how the political decision-making concerning energy production in the islands was monitored and visualized through creativity by the Shetland community. - Listen to the BBC Radio Shetland (from 24m onwards) - Read about the project in the Shetland Times <img width="2226" height="1500" width_o="2226" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c11355383ae3eca0b820e0fe8ebf0256e6184f6b2918fb0124b2a36529d631c9/mmjpg.jpg" data-mid="225714224" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c11355383ae3eca0b820e0fe8ebf0256e6184f6b2918fb0124b2a36529d631c9/mmjpg.jpg" /> Metropolis M number 6 (2024/25) Nieuwe Collectie Aanwinsten 23 Musea, 2025. &nbsp; Over Mining Myths in Het Nieuwe Domein&nbsp;| Feature in Nieuwe Collectie Aanwinsten 23 Musea (New Acquisitions Dutch Musea) written by Arent Boon for Metropolis M, (15th of January 2025)In this interview conducted for Dutch art magazine Metropolis M, art critic and journalist Arent Boon talks with artist Miriam Sentler and museum director Mijke Harst about&nbsp;Mining Myths (2023), a work that has been acquired for the museum collection of Het Nieuwe Domein in 2024. The work&nbsp;Mining Myths&nbsp;tells the rich history of the Limburgian mining world on both sides of the German/ Dutch border and lended its title to Sentler’s first museum solo exhibition at het Nieuwe Domein Sittard. Mining Myths was on show at the museum from the 13th of September 2024 until the 5th of January 2025. Read it here <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb4e43fc58aa3870cdd32093086379e41c03967373ed04e892fc862089326d8c/111.jpg.gif" data-mid="225713297" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb4e43fc58aa3870cdd32093086379e41c03967373ed04e892fc862089326d8c/111.jpg.gif" />Seals lying on a Shetland beach.&nbsp;©️ Miriam Sentler, fieldwork Shetland, January 2024. Oil&nbsp;and Island Culture in Shetland: A Conversation with Miriam Sentler &nbsp;| Interview with Eva Pritchard for the TOIL Blog, University of Oslo (January ‘25)In January 2024, Miriam Sentler, one of TOIL’s Doctoral Research Fellows, travelled to Shetland to learn more about its oil industry. In this conversation, Eva Pritchard asks Sentler why she decided to research oil in the Shetland Islands specifically, and how the islands’ Viking-inspired Up Helly Aa festival presents fascinating connections with local energy industries. By focusing on Shetland's creative community, Sentler uncovers new insights into how myth and oil frequently intertwine in the Shetland Isles, both historically and today.With particular emphasis on developments in Norway after 1970, researchers in the project "Translatability of Oil" (TOIL) will discuss how the aesthetics of oil may have contributed to preventing the transition to alternative forms of energy. By combining methods from literary studies, didactic research, film studies, and theology, the researchers will map and compare different representations of oil. Read it here <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b0edf04a85e67f8d6d6d93e8cd726ac261d7e258b7b9d2c4dd8baf079251efd/FFB13.jpg" data-mid="222857560" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b0edf04a85e67f8d6d6d93e8cd726ac261d7e258b7b9d2c4dd8baf079251efd/FFB13.jpg" />©️ Deep Time Agency, performance Floating Fathers, 1 dec. 2024 Belgrade, RS Floating Fathers&nbsp;| Performance and Exhibition in Belgrade, RS with Deep Time Agency at U10 Art Space (26 Nov - 28 Dec. 2025)During their performance at U10 Art Space Belgrade, Deep Time Agency took the public on a guided tour through the city centre of Belgrade to the Danube river, accompanied by István Széchenyi, one of their floating fathers. The performance was used to bring the river engineer present in the exhibition back to the river. During the walk, the public acquired insights into the history of the Danube river, learning more about its construction history, cultural importance to the different countries it flows through and the river’s personal meaning to one of the floating fathers. Their project, that is also on show at the exhibition Your Water Our Water at U10, critically commemorates 19th century industrialists, engineers, and statesmen that played an important role in the cultivation of the Danube river. While the taming of the river was seen as a heroic deed just hundred years ago, nowadays we face the direct and indirect consequences of these historical figures’ actions, and many projects concerned with “re-wildering” the Danube are currently under way.&nbsp; More information <img width="1000" height="690" width_o="1000" height_o="690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f932f6646fa6886651f10aa5e29f9f3fe100dc1ad1e1d712049ef191e4232e3/layout-flyer-Overburden-v09_fotos_website2-page001-e1729839635420-1000x690.jpg" data-mid="221400723" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f932f6646fa6886651f10aa5e29f9f3fe100dc1ad1e1d712049ef191e4232e3/layout-flyer-Overburden-v09_fotos_website2-page001-e1729839635420-1000x690.jpg" /> ©️&nbsp;Mirror Lake, Valley of the Yosemite (1872) by Eadweard Muybridge Overburden: On Extraction And the Shape of Things to Come | A Group Exhibition at Greylight Projects, Heerlen, NL (8 Nov - 15 Dec. 2024)&nbsp; Extraction refers to the forced removal of raw materials and life forms from the earth’s surface, depths and biosphere. A process that not only has devastatingly shaped a predicament of climate crisis but also functions as a generative logic by which we understand the world. Understanding extraction as both a material reality as well as a cultural problem brings into focus the role of art and imagination in shaping what we talk about when we talk about “nature”, “progress”, or “crisis”. And what remains outside of art’s representation, just outside the frame, or is difficult to recognize within it? The exhibition approaches this concern from within the frame, from the inconspicuous idea of overburden. In mining, overburden is that which needs to be removed in order to access the ore being mined. It is material, such as rock, soil and ecosystem, that lies above an area that lends itself to economical exploitation. This way of organizing nature emphasizes the justification that was always present in the logic of extraction, and the project of modernity — a disregard for some, for the benefit of another. The works of the participating artists (Alaa Abu Asad, Rachel Bacon, Anastasia Kubrak, Harun Morrison &amp; Miriam Sentler)&nbsp;depart from different localities, from Palestine, Czechia, and Zuid-Limburg among others, as they offer contributions that interrogate the interplay between extraction, the materiality of art and the formation of visuality in relation to histories of empire, labour and knowledge underpinning our cultural imaginings. More information <img width="2481" height="3508" width_o="2481" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9095d241b7cc3550c1d7dda39f928b4e258fc8fa8a8841529c97d10e6de72576/HND_MM_HND025-web-Affiche-A2-1_page-0001.jpg" data-mid="217815789" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9095d241b7cc3550c1d7dda39f928b4e258fc8fa8a8841529c97d10e6de72576/HND_MM_HND025-web-Affiche-A2-1_page-0001.jpg" /> ©️ Het Nieuwe Domein Mining Myths&nbsp;| A&nbsp;Solo Exhibition at Museum het Nieuwe Domein Sittard, NL (13 Sept. 2024 - 5 jan. 2025)&nbsp;Museum Het Nieuwe Domein pays attention to the history and culture of the Sittard-Geleen-Born region. The mining history has played an important role in the development of this region. Maurits State Mine, the largest coal mine in the Netherlands, has had a direct influence on the spatial planning of Sittard-Geleen. Entire neighborhoods were built for the employees who worked in the mine.&nbsp; December 2024 will mark 50 years since the last coal was mined in the Netherlands, but the impact still lives on. This is a reason for Het Nieuwe Domein to pay attention to this with a modest solo presentation by artist Miriam Sentler. The exhibition Mining Myths takes its title from a work by artist Miriam Sentler from 2022. The work was purchased by the museum in 2023, together with her audio installation The Forest Underground (2022). These and other works of the artist will be on view until the 5th of january in the museum at the Kapittelstraat.&nbsp; More information <img width="768" height="432" width_o="768" height_o="432" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01ee78cd63f92922369ddd4d8a53f124c84e5418eb33a03589f7f3eafe21f2e3/240705_liaf-768x432.jpg" data-mid="218694966" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/01ee78cd63f92922369ddd4d8a53f124c84e5418eb33a03589f7f3eafe21f2e3/240705_liaf-768x432.jpg" />©️LIAF, Lofoten International Art Festival 2024 Metode #3 Currents: Regenerating Pasts for the Not Yet&nbsp;| A&nbsp;Publication in Metode Journal in collaboration with ROM for Kunst og Arkitektur Oslo and Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær, Lofoten, NO (June – Dec. 2024)I am pleased to announce that I have been selected as one of the participants of the Currents project. Currents is a collaboration project between Metode and Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF)2024. LIAF is the longest-running art biennial in Scandinavia, presenting works by local and international artists in a location-conscious context. This year's festival, its 18th edition, is curated by Kjersti&nbsp;Solbakken.The online journal platform Metode publishes essays in the fields of art and architecture. The essays are developed through experimental, intellectual cocreation, and collaborative methods. The journal’s open, in-depth peer review method aims to offer theorists and practitioners a discursive platform for generating original and compelling critical thinking on art, architecture, design, and aesthetics that challenge conventional academic publication formats and disseminations. We invite artists, designers, and architects to unite with scholars from the humanities to explore creative and risky ways of assembling knowledge through words and works. More information <img width="3000" height="2001" width_o="3000" height_o="2001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/354cc0bb523b652858b500ff8d1db3a15a29220bb653c49e02d45d4a8eea7d82/03.-2403_KHW_Fossile-Energie_fragile-Zukunft_009.jpg" data-mid="208406736" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/354cc0bb523b652858b500ff8d1db3a15a29220bb653c49e02d45d4a8eea7d82/03.-2403_KHW_Fossile-Energie_fragile-Zukunft_009.jpg" />Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven. ©️ Photo: Edward Greiner -162°C, 450 kg/m³ Fossil Energy, Fragile Futures | A Group Exhibition at Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, DE, curated by Lena Reisner (March 8th – June 23rd 2024)The first terminal for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) went into operation in Wilhelmshaven in December 2022. For overseas transport, the fossil gas is cooled to −162 °C in a complex process and compressed to around 450 kg/m³. In the region, the hope for new economic resources through the expansion of industrial infrastructure contrasts with the threat to the environment caused by the discharge of toxic waste into the sea. The complex relationship between energy production, environmental protection and social justice is the focus of the exhibition. Multimedia artistic positions address the use of natural gas, oil and coal in various regions of the world and show forms of resistance to the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructures. The mining of raw materials such as uranium and lithium, which is required for batteries and is playing an increasingly important role in the “energy transition”, is also being considered. Artists: Ana Alenso, Ayọ̀ Akínwándé, Andrew Castrucci, Marjolijn Dijkman, Sonja Hornung &amp; Daniele Tognozzi, Susanne Kriemann, Bram Kuypers, Rachel O’Reilly, Oliver Ressler, Miriam Sentler and others. More information &amp; tickets <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7fdaf66bbc415b0d471f4028b4c8af2863fe2fb8c489764c62fd8f92cb5256b5/Delphi-YWOWaterDoradzillo_2304web.jpg" data-mid="211615537" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7fdaf66bbc415b0d471f4028b4c8af2863fe2fb8c489764c62fd8f92cb5256b5/Delphi-YWOWaterDoradzillo_2304web.jpg" /> Floating Fathers in Your Water Our Water Exhibition, Freiburg im Breisgau, DE. ©️ Photo: DELPHI Your Water Our Water&nbsp;| A Group Exhibition at DELPHI Art Space, Freiburg im Breisgau, DE, Art Quarter Budapest, HU &amp; U10 Art Space Belgrade, RS (27.04 - 28.12.2024)Deep Time Agency has been selected as one of the participating artists in the Your Water Our Water exhibition cycle, taking place throughout 2024 in three art spaces along the Donau river. As a mighty body of water, the Danube flows through large parts of Europe. On its way from its source in the Black Forest to its mouth in the Black Sea, it crosses numerous borders. This makes it a connecting element between diverse national identities and breaks up the rigid order of the mainland (...) The title of the traveling exhibition “YOUR WATER OUR WATER” alludes to the interconnectedness of all water systems and the adjoining cultural spaces. It signifies a clear perspective on the overt and covert relationships and dependencies among various local actors in the Danube region. The Danube has always been a canvas for artistic explorations that are not the least based on the inspirational power of the element of water. Every country it flows through has its own myths and stories. As part of the trinational project, a traveling exhibition is being created that connects three young art spaces in Germany, Hungary, and Serbia along the Danube. After its opening at DELPHI_space in Freiburg on April 27, 2024, the exhibition will move to the cultural center aqb Budapest and then to U10 Belgrade. (...) In addition to painting, photography, video art, installations and performances, the exhibition includes a diverse program with film screenings, workshops and lectures. Read more <img width="700" height="457" width_o="700" height_o="457" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b490d07ac2a92077f96300d4a14a237e5c21fc7e6d742c6e7f919cd8df3bec94/hero-image-city.png" data-mid="206228105" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/b490d07ac2a92077f96300d4a14a237e5c21fc7e6d742c6e7f919cd8df3bec94/hero-image-city.png" />©️ Petrocultures 2024 Tales of the Offshore Oil City | A Panel Presentation at the Petrocultures Conference 2024, Los Angeles, USA, (May 15-18th 2024) This year’s host city of the biennial Petrocultures Conference is Los Angeles.&nbsp;Before it became a media and entertainment capital of the world, Los Angeles was an oil town, with the spectacle of derricks occupying many of its treasured beaches. Over the course of the 20th century, LA evolved into a quintessential petro-city, famous for its endless freeways, traffic jams, smog, and consumer culture–and less famous for refineries, pipelines, pumpjacks, and container ships that are key features of the land- and waterscape. The panel participants are affiliated with the multidisciplinary research project Translatability of Oil: Critical Petro-Aesthetics at Work (TOIL) at the University of Oslo. <img width="1024" height="972" width_o="1024" height_o="972" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65f7482b068ef6c7824b77845270148730240fb4d842ea4babb9aa10e3529197/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-14-at-12.54.34_c64b5013.jpg" data-mid="199418495" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65f7482b068ef6c7824b77845270148730240fb4d842ea4babb9aa10e3529197/WhatsApp-Image-2023-12-14-at-12.54.34_c64b5013.jpg" />©️ Gaada Shetland, UK Brigði Island | A Commission at Gaada, Isle of Burra, Shetland, UK (Dec 8th – March 22nd 2024)Brigði Island is the most recent artist commission through an ongoing partnership between Gaada (Burra, UK) and Pamflett (Bergen, NO). Together the two organisations have been working to facilitate workshops and exchanges with visual artists from both Shetland and Norway, aiming to create a “bridge” between these two coastal communities.The brigði is a sea monster, believed to be closely related to the basking shark, an animal hunted almost to its extinction by the early oil industry and small island communities before its protection in Scottish waters in 1994. The project starts from the various linguistic definitions of the name of the oil-producing animal. Brigði translates to “basking shark” (Shetland dialect), "right to reclaim"/ "change" (Old Norse) and “bridge" (Nynorsk) and researches the meaning of the basking shark as a living point of connection between Bergen in Norway and Shetland in the UK. In the exhibition outside the Toogs Artist Workshop, the dorsal fin of the shark is flying above the building, establishing Shetland as a “shark island.” By acquiring the&nbsp;Brigði&nbsp;Gazette in the print workshop, the visitor can go on a Shark Trail, visiting places around the coast of the island where the sea-monster was sighted. The riso-printed artist publication, especially developed for this exhibition, collects sightings of the brigði around Shetland in the last 200 years, using old newspaper articles from the Shetland Museum &amp; Archives as a starting point. It takes the reader on a journey through the eyes of Shetland fishermen, describing awe-inducing, frightening and sometimes comical experiences made on sea. Read more here <img width="1890" height="1417" width_o="1890" height_o="1417" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/734e56035133d8823d5d27c9b991db1be6a8e05c3b278172c9e9d395eb0d0257/fountainstill01credit.png" data-mid="186491195" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/734e56035133d8823d5d27c9b991db1be6a8e05c3b278172c9e9d395eb0d0257/fountainstill01credit.png" /> Press image Petromelancholia, BRUTUS Rotterdam, NL Petromelancholia | A&nbsp;Group Exhibition at BRUTUS Rotterdam, NL, curated by Alexander Klose (September 1st - November 19th 2023) Petromelancholia examines the enormous consequences of a life beyond oil, the magnitude of which many do not yet realize. Unlike the many exhibitions that sing about doom scenarios or kick in the open doors of the climate crisis, Petromelancholia reflects on the legacy of the oil age and the new meaning that this past will irrevocably acquire. What has oil brought us, materially and especially culturally, and what might disappear or change? Such a complex phenomenon only comes into the limelight if there is room for different perspectives. Art is a master discipline when it comes to anticipating and navigating change. That is why Petromelancholia, curated by Alexander Klose (research collective Beauty of Oil) brings together 24 contemporary artists from different cultural backgrounds and generations.With works by: Yuri Ancarani (ITA), Rowan van As (NLD), Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck (VEN/DEU), Diann Bauer (USA), Uwe Belz (DEU), Vanessa Billy (CHE), Kevin van Braak &amp; Ipeh Nur (NLD/IDN), Imani Jacqueline Brown (USA), Andrew Castrucci (USA), Chto Delat (RUS), Timo Demollin (NLD), Tanja Engelberts (NLD), Christoph Girardet (DEU), Rumiko Hagiwara (JPN/NLD), Bernhard Hopfengärtner (DEU), Aaditi Joshi (IND), Leonhard Müllner &amp; Robin Klengel (AUT), Hugo Niebeling (DEU), Monira Al Qadiri (KWT), Alain Resnais (FRA), Konstantin Schimanowski (RUS/DEU), Miriam Sentler (DEU), Sanaz Sohrabi (IRN/CAN), Johannes Steendam (NLD), Gunhild Vatn (NOR), Jan Eric Visser (NLD), Rachel Youn (USA), Marina Zurkow (USA). More information &amp; tickets <img width="1140" height="641" width_o="1140" height_o="641" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7839b955d7ef57426b96838e7889560c470d9bfbc7e13b2374db22b074fe526d/balatoni-foto-szabadonbalaton-1.png" data-mid="188399319" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7839b955d7ef57426b96838e7889560c470d9bfbc7e13b2374db22b074fe526d/balatoni-foto-szabadonbalaton-1.png" /> © Balatorium 2023 Balatorium | An&nbsp;Artist Talk at Balatorium Ecological Week, curated by Anna Tudos, Lake Balaton, HU (27th of August, 2023)BALATORIUM is an ecological and cultural program series and a science-communication project within the framework of Veszprém-Balaton 2023 - European Capital of Culture. The aim of the project is to support cultural, artistic and educational productions reflecting on the most important ecological challenges of Lake Balaton and its region, along with&nbsp;promoting&nbsp;a broader discourse on the topic. BALATORIUM presents the main ecological challenges and processes related to Lake Balaton and its region, along with the key concepts that help to understand them, through unique cultural programmes and relevant content that are specifically reflective of the region, widely accessible and experiential, in the form of performative landscape tours, interactive public actions, exhibitions, talks, sound plays and&nbsp;artist-in-residence programmes. In addition, interviews, short background studies, text and video entries, infographics and toolkits&nbsp;are&nbsp;used as a result of&nbsp;peer research in order to raise awareness of the vulnerability of the Balaton region as an ecosystem and to promote a significant shift in public perception. <img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6bd0de511d4b84bc023c64d656ca3fe596b7ac9ed49d5895e9187f17f5506d7/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-23-at-21.58.24.jpeg" data-mid="186469537" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b6bd0de511d4b84bc023c64d656ca3fe596b7ac9ed49d5895e9187f17f5506d7/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-23-at-21.58.24.jpeg" /> Gods of the Anthropocene recording day in Berlin-Biesdorf, july 2023. Photo: DTA Gods of the Anthropocene | A&nbsp;New work by Deep Time Agency, funded by Mondriaan Fonds &amp; BESD-II Program (July - December 2023) Last week, Deep Time Agency had its first field-recording day for Gods of the Anthropocene (2023), a new project forming a continuation of the previous work Ancestors Rising (2022). In both works, we focus on the find of 10.000-year-old antler headdresses in industrial or modern landscapes in Germany. Both works reactivate the prehistoric artifacts through site-specific interventions on their exact finding locations. .The new work focusses on the find of these objects in a newly-build modern housing environment in Berlin. The original antler headdress was found on the Westbank of the Wuhle river in Berlin in 1953, before the housing areas Marzahn, Biesdorf, and Hellersdorf were built. Starting from the function of the antlers during religious ceremonies, where they were used as a tool to contact the worshipped deities, DTA adapted the object in these urban environments as a communication device to talk to inhabitants about climate change. Using a reproduction of the 10.000-year-old antler headdress found in Berlin in combination with a pair of condenser microphones, we documented the journey through the modern neighborhood in which the artifacts were found, asking inhabitants how weather changes influences their life and how they see their own role as “Gods of the Anthropocene” in the climate crisis. Learn more about DTA here <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2c93c33f0d837437755755e25336de0873d67835aea9eb8a6e8a92e3e4188ba/Photo-Patty-van-den-Elshout-i.o.v.-TextielMuseum-2023-016-086.jpg" data-mid="184766420" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2c93c33f0d837437755755e25336de0873d67835aea9eb8a6e8a92e3e4188ba/Photo-Patty-van-den-Elshout-i.o.v.-TextielMuseum-2023-016-086.jpg" /> Sketch&nbsp;Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne in Textielmuseum, 2023 © Patty van der Elshout Secrets of Making #3&nbsp;| A Group Exhibition at Textielmuseum Tilburg, NL (July 1st 2023 - May 2024) The whole making process of Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne (2022) is now installed in the Secrets of Making exhibition at Textielmuseum Tilburg.&nbsp;In ‘Secrets of making #3’, delve into the minds of the makers of the TextielLab, the professional workplace of the Textielmuseum. During the familiy-oriented exhibition, the visitor can discover the many routes that artists and designers take to arrive at their end result. The exhibition showcases the drawing, the tapestry and the documentation made in Norway and Scotland during the artistic research period of the work. The exhibition includes works by&nbsp;Sangmin-Oh, Sigrid Calon, Brian Anderson, Sampat Studio (Marcos Kueh and Isabelle Nair-Lacheta), Miriam Sentler, Sandra Keja Planken, Jojo Shone &amp; Leonie Burkhardt. It is open until the 26th of may 2024. More information and tickets <img width="3000" height="3041" width_o="3000" height_o="3041" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c7efab00ccab5ff9a8155e70deee93973dfc4db3d815e757ee9590effaa9dc4/0Photo-Patty-van-den-Elshout-i.o.v.-TextielMuseum-2023-012-009.jpg" data-mid="177855067" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c7efab00ccab5ff9a8155e70deee93973dfc4db3d815e757ee9590effaa9dc4/0Photo-Patty-van-den-Elshout-i.o.v.-TextielMuseum-2023-012-009.jpg" /> Production Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne series, 2022 © Patty van der Elshout Mining Myths | A&nbsp;New Work Developed at TextielLab: The Professional Workplace of the Textielmuseum Tilburg, NL - Supported by BRUTUS Rotterdam &amp; Stichting Stokroos (July - August 2023) For the upcoming exhibition Petromelancholia at BRUTUS Rotterdam, I am currently developing the second tapestry in the Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne Series: titled Mining Myths. This new work, funded by BRUTUS and Stichting Stokroos, will form a diptych with Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne: Oil &amp; Myth (2022), in which I explored the relationships between oil and myth in the North Sea. The new tapestry incorporates various implications of coal and myth in the underworld of Limburg, being a border-region of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. The research for this second tapestry took place during a residency in Genk, one of the largest coal mining towns in Belgium. Together, the Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne tapestries will function as a playful map, poetically and symbolically revealing the history and impact of the fossil fuel industry to a large and diverse audience. The TextielLab is the professional working place of the Textielmuseum. It distinguishes itself as a one-of-a-kind knowledge centre for textile development where professionals are involved in carrying out extraordinary, customised projects. <img width="3000" height="1980" width_o="3000" height_o="1980" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc57268688f61b6a23face6822351a3d98a353030dad158f9dbfde62652cb55b/112.jpg" data-mid="182188911" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc57268688f61b6a23face6822351a3d98a353030dad158f9dbfde62652cb55b/112.jpg" /> The Mythical Zone in the harbour area of Amsterdam, 2023. The Mythical Zone | A Commission for Oase van Verwondering exhibition, Ruigoord, Amsterdam, NL (opening June 23th&nbsp;2023) In De Mythische Zone&nbsp;(2023), the public is invited to take part in an audio walk around the edges of the former island of Ruigoord. The work in the harbour area of Amsterdam treats the area as a place for stranded inventions, a zone where time stands still and where public reflection on the adaptability of the ever-changing landscape is possible. The visitors are invited to enter six mythical audio zones during the walk where the boundaries between mythology and technology are explored. Here, they learn about different mythical interventions that all characterise the history of the landscape.&nbsp;Together, the six stories tell about the partly failed future visions of the petrochemical industry, the ecological changes of the landscape, the overlap of church ideologies and activist interventions and the stories of seafarers, duck-catchers, and dike builders who &nbsp;all once lived in this place. The Mythical Zone is a project commissioned by curator Imke Ruigrok (director Re-NATURE Festival) and Stichting 100 years Ruigoord. It will premiere during Oase van Verwondering, a group exhibition opening on the 23nd of june 2023 in Ruigoord. With (a.o.) Gijs Frieling, Atelier van Lieshout, Ambassade van de Noordzee, Wafae Ahalouch, Muge Yilmaz, Annabelle Binnerts, Miriam Sentler, Ruchama Noorda, Ambassade van de Noordzee, Inge Meijer, Femmy Otten and Suzette Bousema. Download the walk here <img width="3024" height="3499" width_o="3024" height_o="3499" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93c43a687893708f2c107d0869536a1b04024723b42991323442d8bcb04c8390/shetland.jpg" data-mid="179798280" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93c43a687893708f2c107d0869536a1b04024723b42991323442d8bcb04c8390/shetland.jpg" /> Visits to different parts of the Shetlands, may 2023 Brigði&nbsp;| A Residency &amp; Workshop with Pamflett Bergen at Gaada, Isle of Burra, Shetland, UK (May 20-27th 2023) In may 2023, I will conduct a residency at Gaada on the Shetlands Islands, organising a workshop and collaboration day with local Shetland artists and researching the landscape for the upcoming project Brigdi (2023-2024). This visit will function as the first phase of a collaboration between Gaada Shetland (UK), Pamflett Bergen (NO) and myself. Brigði, meaning “basking shark” (Shetland dialect), "right to reclaim"/ "change" (Old Norse) and “Bridge" (Nynorsk), researches the meaning of the basking shark as a living point of connection between Bergen (NO) and the Shetlands (UK), focusing on the meaning and use of the animal in the different coastal areas where it surfaces.&nbsp;My research into the history of oil- and energy production in small-scale island communities continues with Brigði, forming a continuation of Cairban - A Contemporary Shark Hunt (2021).. Gaada is an artist-led organisation based in Burra Isle, Shetland. They believe art is for all and work with communities in Shetland to develop meaningful and critical art activities. Their work centres around improving access to creative development through Gaada’s well-equipped visual art workshop and specialist support from its experienced artists. From their workshop they run an ambitious visual arts programme&nbsp;which includes exhibitions,&nbsp;printmaking workshops, creating editions,&nbsp;and developing local resources. More information about Gaada More information about Pamflett <img width="768" height="640" width_o="768" height_o="640" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3833647d6b82cb5358611aa521d19604631f2b7d45065480f57bd2be12c44b34/FDR2yQcWQAQaPnN.png" data-mid="174332938" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/3833647d6b82cb5358611aa521d19604631f2b7d45065480f57bd2be12c44b34/FDR2yQcWQAQaPnN.png" /> Logo Mondriaan fund. © Mondriaanfonds, NL Practice generously supported by the Artist Basic Grant of Mondriaan Fund from 2023 until 2027 (April 4th 2023) Between 2023 and 2027, my practice is generously supported by the Artist Basic Grant (FKA Stipendium for Established Artists) of the Mondriaan Fund (Mondriaanfonds). Artist Basic grants are for visual artists from the Netherlands, helping them in the making of new work and the further development of their professional practice. The Mondriaan Fund offers Artist Basic grants to stimulate the development of visual artists’ oeuvres, their cultural entrepreneurship and their visibility, supporting the creation of work that can make a valuable contribution to contemporary visual art in the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. During the assessment of the applications, the advisory committee ranks the distinctiveness of the artistic vision of the applicant, next to the quality, visibility, and acknowledgement of the work in the national and international art world. More information about the grant <img width="2824" height="3338" width_o="2824" height_o="3338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d5e523c0219383fa48004ad4ec295eff1785ce2e454232728c551faf11562db/01.png" data-mid="174332276" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d5e523c0219383fa48004ad4ec295eff1785ce2e454232728c551faf11562db/01.png" />Miriam in the studio with the first test prints of Planktos Rising.&nbsp;© Miriam Sentler Planktos Rising | A&nbsp;Book Launch at Bergen Art Book Fair, Bergen Kunsthall, NO (April 15th 2023, 14.00h) The children book Planktos Rising recounts the journey of a plankton named Planktos who meets many inhabitants of the North Sea. Through their conversations, he learns about a mythical material of great influence on their environment: oil. Using colorful and tactile imagery, the book introduces children to the strange relationships between mythology and fossil fuel, making up the basis for universal thinking that is needed to discuss the topic of the climate crisis. The limited, riso-printed edition of this children’s book will be on sale for the first time at Bergen Art Book Fair. During the round table talk on Saturday the 15th of april at 14.00, Miriam and Alix will talk about the elaborate making process of the book. The publication is inspired by a tapestry, made by Miriam Sentler and woven at the Textielmuseum Tilburg. The research of the project took place during two residencies in oil production landscapes: one at Knockvologan Studies in the Inner Hebrides in Scotland, UK and the other at the United Sardine Factory (USF) in Bergen, NO. Read more about the BABF Program here <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de6a5859fffae4b3df772cc64fd428f7b772a6e4f7c2cdfa666b872d57d97006/123.jpg" data-mid="170273883" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de6a5859fffae4b3df772cc64fd428f7b772a6e4f7c2cdfa666b872d57d97006/123.jpg" /> workshop in the ENCI marl quarry, 2022. ©&nbsp;Deep Time Agency Marl Matters | Guest Teaching about the ENCI Marl Quarry at Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht, NL (March 9-10 2023) During the workshop with students of the Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht, we (visual artists Miriam Sentler and Elena Khurtova) want to use archival research, making and walking as methods of visually experiencing the depth and different material layers of which the ENCI marl quarry is composed. Together with the students, we will explore the historical exploitations of the landscape and the different materials harvested from the site throughout centuries. The ENCI area has been mined for 2500 years - and every century was characterised by different techniques, applications and reasons for using the marl. During the workshop, Miriam will focus on the historical purposes of the landscape, placing our contemporary, industrial dealings with it into a transhistorical perspective, while Elena will research different sensorial aspects and techniques of working with marl which she will investigate further with the students during a workshop in the quarry. How do the different (industrial) techniques used to form, change and apply the marl can be translated through acts of care? and how can we care for the marl and the newly-formed nature in the redevelopment phase of the closed cement quarry in the present time? Read more about the project Artistic Research in Situ <img width="720" height="545" width_o="720" height_o="545" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e68adf003d5f3ccd9374a0f46680ff9467dcdff70db1b91e380e720903efd9ea/12-Hvalsalen-Pan3_red-beskjrt.jpeg" data-mid="163855780" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/e68adf003d5f3ccd9374a0f46680ff9467dcdff70db1b91e380e720903efd9ea/12-Hvalsalen-Pan3_red-beskjrt.jpeg" />The Whale Hall. Adnan Icagic © Universitetsmuseet i Bergen Cairban: A Contemporary Shark Hunt | A Performance&nbsp;at Hvalsalen, Universitetsmuseet Naturhistorie Bergen, NO (January 14th 2023) Cairban: A Contemporary Shark Hunt is a performance by visual artist Miriam Sentler (NL/DE) and environmental humanities researcher Sadie Hale (NO/UK). The work is rooted in a three-day sea voyage on the North Atlantic, in which the duo set out in search of the oil-producing basking shark. Cairban comments on modern surveillance technologies used in wildlife spotting, now a practice fueling the tourism industry of the Scottish Hebrides instead of the oil industry. This advanced modern technology is contrasted with the crude early methods described in historical reports of Hebridean shark hunters and the crew's own non-encounter, emphasizing how the 'wild' and mythical still evades capture today. On Saturday the 14th of January, Sadie and Miriam will give a performance in the whale hall, consisting of reading a travelogue in the middle of a so-called “shark wheel”. The performance highlights the unrealistic expectations of the crew and reflects on the changing of the human relationship to the shark throughout time. Duration: 20 minutesLanguage: English More information &amp; tickets <img width="1384" height="748" width_o="1384" height_o="748" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3b079d5b43f36acdec5cc4e745d94abc92d706beeca3271117d1fb8b2f31814/Schermafbeelding-2023-01-04-om-09.10.20.png" data-mid="163491975" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b3b079d5b43f36acdec5cc4e745d94abc92d706beeca3271117d1fb8b2f31814/Schermafbeelding-2023-01-04-om-09.10.20.png" />© GRIP 2022 GRIP: Global Research Program on Inequality -&nbsp;Speculative Urban Futures&nbsp; | A&nbsp;Workshop at Errant Bodies Studio, Berlin, DE (January 18-19 2023) The project Speculative Urban Futures is organizing a two-day workshop in Berlin 18-19 January 2023. Participants are invited to join in ‘speculations’ about potential urban futures, in the form of cross-disciplinary open-ended discussion and creation. The Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP) is a radically interdisciplinary research programme that views inequality as both a fundamental challenge to human well-being and as an impediment to achieving the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda. GRIP was established in 2019 as a collaboration between the University of Bergen (UiB) and the International Science Council (ISC) to foster co-designed processes of knowledge creation to understand the multiple dimensions of rising inequalities. The workshop is organised by Dr. Brandon LaBelle and Dr. Bjørn Enge Berthelsen. More information <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cabac7dd85b97231635099d7fcdaa1581610a00ff2e745d4ac7234db733880c/01.JPG" data-mid="161676062" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cabac7dd85b97231635099d7fcdaa1581610a00ff2e745d4ac7234db733880c/01.JPG" /> Performance (Bringing) The Forest Underground, C-Mine Genk (BE)&nbsp; © Miriam Sentler An Afternoon filled with Presentations by Jester Artists | A&nbsp;Presentation&nbsp;at Jester - C Mine Genk, BE (December 11th 2022) On the 11th of December, we come together for the finissage of Marie Zolamian’s exhibition, and the end of a major chapter of our organisation. At the end of 2022, the programme initiated still under two organisations, FLACC and CIAP, comes to an end. We are grateful for the last years and for the experiences and encounters they brought. We are looking forward to starting 2023 with new ideas, energy, and humour – in the style of Jester. Some of our artists will share elements of their research or project on this special day. Alongside, we will hold a goodbye drink with some departing colleagues. Luuk Nouwen worked for ten years as artistic director at FLACC and the last year as senior supervisor artistic projects at Jester. Tine Deboelpaep worked for the past years as an artistic employee at CIAP and Jester. Lisa Costantini worked for two years at FLACC and Jester in administration and for the ceramics studio. Register here <img width="2000" height="1295" width_o="2000" height_o="1295" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d75513e21b188b8f7638b506f992ecd08cf5ca8ae8b90fc9adfda014b18abdd5/Terrace_field_yunnan_china_denoised.jpg" data-mid="159355539" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d75513e21b188b8f7638b506f992ecd08cf5ca8ae8b90fc9adfda014b18abdd5/Terrace_field_yunnan_china_denoised.jpg" />Terrace field, Yunnan China. © Wikimedia commons. &nbsp; Conversations: Pasts, Presents, and Futures of the Environmental Humanities | A Presentation at NICA, Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (November 29th 2022) The NICA PhD Council invites all NICA members and interested members of the public to an evening of discussion on the past, present and futures of the Environmental Humanities. Come join us in taking stock of the state of the Environmental Humanities in the Netherlands and beyond, and addressing pertinent questions with leading scholars from a range of disciplines during an engaging and inspiring evening with discussions, drinks, and snacks. Confirmed speakers: Dr. Jeff Diamanti (Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities - Cultural Analysis &amp; Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam), Patricia Pisters (Professor of film at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam), Colin Sterling (Assistant Professor of Memory and Museums at the University of Amsterdam), Miriam Sentler (visual artist and artistic researcher based in the Netherlands). Register here <img width="775" height="526" width_o="775" height_o="526" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab29779bc48849d3d32b2a8d06621a810eca196795900d3f01f013a41ddb7f1e/max_2683.jpg" data-mid="157137173" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/775/i/ab29779bc48849d3d32b2a8d06621a810eca196795900d3f01f013a41ddb7f1e/max_2683.jpg" />Audio recordings on the heath of Genk, BE.&nbsp;© Miriam Sentler&nbsp; Exploring the Underground Forest with Miriam Sentler and Kristof Reulens |&nbsp;An&nbsp;Interview with Alicja Melzacka - curator of Jester Genk (BE)&nbsp;(October 27th 2022) Dutch artist Miriam Sentler is one of the residents at Jester in 2022. In conversation with Kristof Reulens, the coordinator for arts and heritage at the City of Genk, and Jester’s curator Alicja Melzacka, she is sharing her research of the new work The Forest Underground (2022-) and looking back at her three-week-long stay at the Emile van Dorenmuseum.&nbsp; The Forest Underground starts from the sounds of the “underground forest” of the coal mines of Limburg and is developed in the context of Genk, one of the largest coal towns in Belgium. In the mining industry, trees, plants and animals were treated as industrial resources. They were utilized in order to find coal, a fossil fuel that itself originated from ancient ecosystems and plant remains. However, that these natural entities also had material agency was for the miners of the last century self-evident. In the mines, the voices of birds, crickets and trees were heard on a daily basis, accompanying the hard work of the miners.&nbsp; Read the interview here <img width="5500" height="3667" width_o="5500" height_o="3667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18e2c1b98e4781e019955666c2c3d8dd2de1867a47eaa61947b8286347b72645/Looiersgracht60_29-10_2022_LNDWstudio_0007-1.jpg" data-mid="167556450" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18e2c1b98e4781e019955666c2c3d8dd2de1867a47eaa61947b8286347b72645/Looiersgracht60_29-10_2022_LNDWstudio_0007-1.jpg" /> Overview solo presentation at Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam. © LNDW Studio Archive Event VI: The Chase - Miriam Sentler&nbsp;| A Solo Exhibition &amp;&nbsp; Performance at Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL&nbsp;(October 29-31 2022) For the sixth edition of the Archive Series, Looiersgracht 60 presents ‘The Chase’, a unique installation by visual artist and artistic researcher Miriam Sentler. Accompanying the installation will be a public program with Sentler’s frequent collaborators, environmental humanities researcher Sadie Hale, and composer Drake Stoughton. Sentler and Hale will perform Cairban: A Contemporary Shark Hunt followed by a panel discussion between Sentler and Stoughton, moderated by Alicja Melzacka, curator of Jester, an exhibition space established on a former coal mine in Genk, BE. ‘The Chase’ brings together three of Sentler’s projects surrounding artistic methods of archiving endangered species in landscapes exploited for fossil fuel extraction. Considering the act of the ‘chase’, Sentler does not strive to capture her subjects, but rather focuses on the reach towards engagement with fleeting sources. Methods such as translating the sounds of endangered birds into sheet music or following the legendary basking shark as dual industrial resource and sea-monster are presented in the installation as methods to engage with the changes of precarious landscapes. Sentler explores these on-going research projects through the performance, discussion and installations and questions their methodologies as (im)possible archival instruments of the chase. The performance and panel talk will take place on October 29 from 16:00 - 18:00, and will be followed by drinks. The installation will be open for viewing on Oct 29 and 30 from 12:00-20:00.&nbsp;Admission is free, but there are limited seats available so please RSVP for the public programme by emailing info@looiersgracht60.org <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0f7bb9b562dbcf71f231f8d6be3badb31a6bda5530e12efaddbae0512a9361e/4.-Ancestors-Rising-2022.jpg" data-mid="167556574" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0f7bb9b562dbcf71f231f8d6be3badb31a6bda5530e12efaddbae0512a9361e/4.-Ancestors-Rising-2022.jpg" /> Ancestors Rising film still (2022)&nbsp;© Deep Time Agency GeSCHICHTEN Rheinisches Revier | A&nbsp;Film Screening of&nbsp;Ancestors Rising at Conference LVR Landesmuseum Bonn, DE&nbsp;(October 24-25 2022)For centuries, the region between Cologne, Aachen, Mönchengladbach and Zülpich (DE) has been characterized by opencast lignite mining. The multifaceted change that accompanies this not only changes the cultural landscape through industrialization and resettlement, but also influences everyday life, working environments and social structures as well as politics and social discourses. The political decision to accelerate the phase-out of coal mining and power generation, as well as the current global political situation, have an existential impact on the people of the region in their current lives and plans for the future. The LVR Landesmuseum cordially invites artists, scientists and other interested parties to explore, illuminate and shape the cultural heritage of the Rheinisches Revier during the conference GeSCHICHTEN - Rheinisches Revier. On October 24th and 25th, 2022 we will meet in the Brauweiler Abbey in Pulheim to discuss cultural possibilities in structural change. During this conference, Deep Time Agency will screen Ancestors Rising (2022) and give a public panel talk to the audience. More info and tickets <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9aee402ed059f14ae55656bbb11513dd0f3881fbea865309319f685e5c88d43/communicatief_dta.jpeg" data-mid="152301829" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9aee402ed059f14ae55656bbb11513dd0f3881fbea865309319f685e5c88d43/communicatief_dta.jpeg" />Descent into the Future (2020)&nbsp;© Deep Time Agency Gallery 3 By Deep Time Agency | A&nbsp;Solo Exhibition at Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam&nbsp;(October 6-22 2022) Deep Time Agency proudly presents its first solo exhibition at Het Nieuwe Instituut. A multi-year, artistic research initiative, the agency re-contextualises archaeological and paleontological objects in (post-)industrial landscapes, in collaboration with local residents, stakeholders and institutions. The result is a series of case studies that highlights changing landscapes and found objects and brings them together in an overarching artistic project. The first four parts, Descent into the Future (2020), Concrete Reef (2022), Ancestors Rising (2022) and Swamp Palace (2022), can now be seen in Gallery 3 of the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.&nbsp; Deep Time Agency's projects spring from the crossroads of art, design, archaeology and cultural heritage. The agency members view its interdisciplinary work as exercises in deep-time thinking, trying to break through the short-term thinking that stands at the origin of the climate crisis. Deep Time Agency is characterised by a strong methodical approach. By means of temporary interventions and art in public space, it focuses on archaeological objects that have been found in various (post-)industrial landscapes, collaborating with scientists, experts and local residents. Deep Time Agency believes that mining areas deserve more attention, especially in a time characterised by the awareness of the finiteness of fossil fuels and other industrial resources. More info and tickets <img width="1024" height="725" width_o="1024" height_o="725" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6326d9d73ed09d65f3ff03540198c13154d54ee3b6543821a567b24c61c95f36/6c675899-1cb6-4a9f-9622-dff8142b4c77.JPG" data-mid="151181028" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6326d9d73ed09d65f3ff03540198c13154d54ee3b6543821a567b24c61c95f36/6c675899-1cb6-4a9f-9622-dff8142b4c77.JPG" />Archival Photo Mines Waterschei Genk, BE © Mine Depot Genk&nbsp; The Forest Underground - A&nbsp;New Project funded by O&amp;O Grant - CBK Rotterdam | in collaboration with Jester &amp; Emile van Dorenmuseum Genk&nbsp;(24 Aug. - 31 Dec 2022)The Forest Underground (2022-2023) researches the acoustic agency of birds, trees, and insects in the Limburgian coal mines, highlighting how the voices of pinewood, canaries, and crickets were utilized by the mining industry deep underground. Exemplary, the cracking of wood was used to signal the collapse of the tunnels to the workers, thus bearing a strong form of material agency. This is an alteration of the well-known canary in the coal mine, showing how the agency of sentinel species spanned from animals to plants and trees. The project focuses on the concept of rebirth, based on the emergence of the post-industrial forest of Genk after the mining industry. Parts of Genks forest were planted to find fitting wood for the support of mine galleries, a harsh contrast to the landscape highlighted in Chase (2020), in which trees disappeared because of the lignite industry. The Forest Underground is conducted in collaboration with composer Drake Stoughton (US/NL 1995). Researching Genk´s mining and landscape painting history in collaboration with Jester and Emile van Dorenmuseum, the work will form a diptych to our earlier work, questioning the ecological and historical legacy of the fossil fuel industry in the border region of Limburg. <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99d8a8d835f7901bbd422c049217d6d540665c3d74c5aef89fd0b19f23ae3f81/n10.jpg" data-mid="150446456" border="0" data-scale="93" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99d8a8d835f7901bbd422c049217d6d540665c3d74c5aef89fd0b19f23ae3f81/n10.jpg" />Ancestors Rising Film&nbsp;Still, 2022&nbsp;© Deep Time Agency&nbsp; Ancestors Rising -&nbsp;Day of the Archeology | A Film Screening at&nbsp;Aussenstelle Titz, LVR LandesMuseum Bonn, DE&nbsp;(20th Aug. - 24/25 Oct.&nbsp;)Deep Time Agency´s new film Ancestors Rising (2022) will premiere at the Day of the Archeology 2022. During this event, the cultural legacy of the RWE lignite industry will be discussed, taking archeological finds from the excavation sites as starting points and granting them a functional role in the repurposing process of the industrial landscape.Ancestors Rising was a site-specific intervention at the former Garzweiler lignite mine in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In 1987, archaeologists made a unique discovery in the middle of the Garzweiler mine when they found two 10.000-year-old antler frontlets. These rare objects were most likely part of a shamanic garb, worn during ceremonies in the Stone Age. Ancestors Rising aims to revisit this point of departure in order to rethink the role of humans in this industrial environment and to envision ways to reconnect with the intrinsic nature of the land. The work reactivated the antler artefacts through temporarily bringing them back to their exact find place, nowadays located in the air. More information <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa623784d8b292e0ed9417539c56ec5cdec6c5751bd577a781e02b4189bbb209/RADIUS_2022-07_GM_0778_canonical.jpeg" data-mid="148148248" border="0" data-scale="93" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa623784d8b292e0ed9417539c56ec5cdec6c5751bd577a781e02b4189bbb209/RADIUS_2022-07_GM_0778_canonical.jpeg" />Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne - Climate of Concern 2022. © RADIUS CCA / photo: Gunnar Meier. Work on right: Julian Charriere, Future Fossil Spaces, 2017 Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne at CLIMATE OF CONCERN | A Group&nbsp;Exhibition at RADIUS, Centre for Contemporary Art &amp; Ecology, Delft (09 July - 11 Sept. 2022)The tapestry Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne (2021-2022), produced together with the TextileLab in Tilburg, will be on show at the CLIMATE OF CONCERN exhibition at Radius CCA in Delft. CLIMATE OF CONCERN is the second exhibition of the Underland year program, examining the current over-indebtedness to the fossil fuel industry and mineral extractivism through the work of nine artists: Bianca Bondi, Julian Charrière, Amalie Jakobsen, Regina de Miguel, Agnieszka Polska, Lisa Rave, Oliver Ressler, Miriam Sentler and Sam Smith. In 1991, Shell released the documentary Climate of Concern, which displayed the potentially catastrophic consequences of climate change: increasing drought, extreme weather, floods, crop failures, disappearing islands, and migration. Yet Shell, alongside other petrochemical companies, continues to profit from fossil fuel extraction, actively contributing to climate change. Nowadays, we have become intertwined with fossil memory so much so that there is no single aspect in our lives that is not somehow impacted by the (ab)use of fossil fuels: from the buildings we inhabit, the pavement they stand on, and the cars that pass them by, to the clothes we wear or the wrapping of our food. More info and tickets <img width="2000" height="1345" width_o="2000" height_o="1345" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b4b0f591b91960536a5c3d52c6738593290af2dbb919365e1d9932d660e8fad/odapark1.jpg" data-mid="149816681" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b4b0f591b91960536a5c3d52c6738593290af2dbb919365e1d9932d660e8fad/odapark1.jpg" /> Swamp Palace I at Nieuwe Uitzichten Exhibition - Odapark, Venray, NL. © Deep Time Agency Swamp Palace at Nieuwe Uitzichten | A Group&nbsp;Exhibition at Odapark, Venray&nbsp;(31 July - 23 Oct. 2022)Deep Time Agency´s new work Swamp Palace (2022) investigates the demand for greenery in Tegelen, a village near Venlo that is best known for the ceramic industry. In the project we refer to the work of the paleoanthropologist Eugene Dubois (1858-1940), who conducted ecological experiments in the area. He wanted to establish a flourishing primeval landscape here, growing fossilised seeds that he found in the industrial clay pits of Tegelen. Dubois was critical of the developing industry in his time and looked for a method to recultivate the damaged land.&nbsp;Nowadays, urban developers and designers seem to express a similar dissatisfaction with the lack of nature in Tegelen and surroundings. Responding to this, we resurrect Dubois experiment one hundred years later, once again attempting to explore the primeval landscape of Tegelen.&nbsp; The water basin in the exhibition space forms a diptych with a sculpture, which can be seen from September onwards in the center of Tegelen. In the exhibition space, Dubois´ waterplants play a leading role; in Tegelen. the land-based plants. Swamp Palace shows an apocalyptic image: referring to the recent floods of July 2021, but also to the nickname that the town hall was given when it was built: Swamp Palace. Since the monumental building was erected on a swampy stretch of land, the local residents thought that the monumental building would soon sink into the swamp. Artists:&nbsp;Emy Bensdorp, Deep Time Agency, Biën Kamphuis &amp; Rutger Vos, Brecht Koelman, Chaim van Luit, Lobke Meekes, Ingeborg Meulendijks &amp; Rick van der Linden, Christian Odzuck, Judith Reijnders, Judith Schils, Fabian Seibert, Mona Steinhäußer More info and tickets <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e3aabc3c5a0fd0b6a9e1f726ba3a1f84410d9a4b9dc0590d671771f43aa5c28/Swamp-Palace-1.png" data-mid="148707079" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e3aabc3c5a0fd0b6a9e1f726ba3a1f84410d9a4b9dc0590d671771f43aa5c28/Swamp-Palace-1.png" />Examining tropical vegetation on the estate of Eugene Dubois. Still Swamp Palace - Nieuwe Uitzichten: Museum Bommel van Dam &amp; Odapark. ©&nbsp;Doerak film Swamp Palace at&nbsp;Nieuwe Uitzichten | A&nbsp; Commissioned Work in Public Space in Tegelen - Museum Bommel van Dam &amp; Odapark Venray (9 Sept. 2022 - 7 Oct. 2022)Museum van Bommel van Dam and Odapark in Venray have jointly started Nieuwe Uitzichten. Supported by the North Limburg Culture Region, nine artists and designers from the Euregion around North Limburg are developing a project within this exhibition that contributes to the greening of our living environment. Each artist focuses on a specific location. In these nine places, efforts are being made towards a green intervention in the public space. Deep Time Agency´s project proposal for Nieuwe Uitzichten focuses on the environment of Tegelen. At the start of construction of Tegelen´s town hall, there was a lot of discussion about the choice of location. Many thought that the ground in this place would be too swampy, not suitable for such a&nbsp; building. The town hall was therefore nicknamed the 'Swamp Palace'. Our research takes this historical reference a starting point for thinking about the ecological future of the city. The plan is to actually transform the town hall into a swamp palace. For this imaginative gesture, we are inspired by the Ice Age jungle of Tegelen, which renowned paleoanthropologist Eugène Dubois (1858-1940) reconstructed 100 years ago at Landgoed de Bedelaar near Tegelen. Dubois designed an exotic (water) landscape on his estate, based on millions of years old fossilised seeds from the former Tegelen clay quarries. Following Dubois, we are undertaking a similar experiment, but in the center of Tegelen. The premise here is that the imagination, which is necessary to imagine the growth of a primeval jungle in Tegelen, undermines the short-term thinking that underpins the curren climate crisis. More info &amp; tickets <img width="4724" height="3149" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/2500/q/75/i/f49021e05b79cd76c205552fa41674447cc80fcbf79163aa223c13eadad05f9d/03-2.jpg" style="width: 365.786px; height: 243.831px;" data-scale="94">Concrete Reef at Nieuw Dakota, 2022.&nbsp;© Deep Time Agency&nbsp; Concrete Reef | A Commissioned Work for Still Waters Run Deep Exhibition - Nieuw Dakota Amsterdam (26 june - 27 aug. 2022) Nieuw Dakota presents the exhibition Still Waters Run Deep, an exhibition in which 7 artists respond to today's climate issues, curated by Marlies Augustijn. Water is vital to life on planet Earth. It covers much of the Earth’s surface in oceans, rivers, lakes and seas, and appears as groundwater, glaciers and clouds. It is captured in political and cultural phenomena, such as drinking and wastewater systems, aquariums and swimming pools. Crucially, water also flows through us to hydrate and fuel cells, organs and tissue and we shed it as tears. The exhibition explores how the fundamental connection between humanity and nature, water in particular, can take on a more central role in our actions. Three artists, Hannah Rowan, Deep Time Agency (Miriam Sentler &amp; Wouter Osterholt) and Kasia Molga, will present new work in the exhibition. The production of the new work is generously supported by the Mondriaan Fonds and the Stichting Niemeijer Fonds. More info and tickets <img width="892" height="500" width_o="892" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99cb42adbb6159d30ae15bdbdbc26da06fad7495f865458cb47220184617a5a8/field2.jpg" data-mid="145662046" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/892/i/99cb42adbb6159d30ae15bdbdbc26da06fad7495f865458cb47220184617a5a8/field2.jpg" /> Ij River, Port of Amsterdam.&nbsp;© FieldARTS Transitional Water/&nbsp;FieldARTS | A Residency at the Estuaries of the IJ River, Port of Amsterdam, North-Sea (4 - 8 july 2022)FieldARTS is an annual residency designed for emerging scholars and artists engaged in environmental and artistic research. The intensive week-long program allows for collaborative knowledge creation in dialogue with experts both on and in the field. During the residency, participants are invited to attend extended field trips, lectures by key theorists in the field of environmental humanities, collaborative workshops, and public-facing roundtable discussions. Within the FIELDarts residency, Sentler plans to start the second chapter of Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne (2021-ongoing), focusing on the Amsterdam Harbour as the biggest petrol port in the world. Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne highlights the mythical and cultural implications of oil extraction in changing maritime landscapes as a long-term artistic research project. By conducting residencies, Miriam mapped the historical, mythical, and ecological implications of the oil industry in the Hebrides and off the coast of Bergen and Stavanger, resulting in the first chapter of the project. &nbsp; More info <img width="3000" height="2101" width_o="3000" height_o="2101" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3bef783191f187a8a0de05175abc52d775b728b6bd552f8e63ab609c7299bc30/elf.png" data-mid="141442972" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3bef783191f187a8a0de05175abc52d775b728b6bd552f8e63ab609c7299bc30/elf.png" /> Audio recordings at Winterslag and Waterschei, Genk, BE&nbsp;© Miriam Sentler&nbsp; The Chase | A Residency at Jester (CIAP/FLACC) &amp; Emile van Doren Museum, Genk, BE (April/ June 2022)In April and June 2022 I am staying at Jester (formerly: CIAP/FLACC) and the Emile van Dorenmuseum to record the sounds of the post-industrial forests of Genk, growing on the terrils of Waterschei and Winterslag (artificial hills made out of ‘waste’ soil resulting from the excavation for coal). The recordings will form the bases for the Chase II, developed together with Jester Genk (formerly CIAP/FLACC). The new work will form the second part of The Chase (2020), researching the post-industrial forest which developed after the closing of the coal mines and contrasting the sound recordings in the endangered Hambacher Forst in North-Rhine Westphalia, DE. <img width="1330" height="757" width_o="1330" height_o="757" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5cd1073f5a9bdba9c496c10266b71a043001e1c27f290ab646c034dbb2254e50/AR1.jpg" data-mid="142773324" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5cd1073f5a9bdba9c496c10266b71a043001e1c27f290ab646c034dbb2254e50/AR1.jpg" /> Filming day Ancestors Rising, Garzweiler, North-Rhine Westphalia, DE © Deep Time Agency&nbsp; Ancestors Rising&nbsp;| A Presentation and Film Screening at LVR Kulturkonferenz Brauweiler, DE (1 June 2022)On the 1st of June, Deep Time Agency presents Ancestors Rising (2022) for the first time at the LVR Kulturkonferenz in Brauweiler (DE).&nbsp;Ancestors Rising is a new work in the context of the Garzweiler lignite pit in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. With the help of KIWI aerial shots and camera man Casper Brink, we flew a replica of the Antler Headdress of Bedburg-Königshoven back to its exact finding location in the pit. Since all surrounding earth was excavated, the antler headdress was relocated in the air. The antler headdress was used by shamans 10.000 years ago, who placed them on their heads during ceremonies to ask the nature gods for good crops and hunting conditions.&nbsp;Ancestors Rising is the second work and case study of Deep Time Agency and will form a diptych with our first work Descent into the Future (2020). <img width="1966" height="1311" width_o="1966" height_o="1311" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c15de56b73da3e21564ec4042fa2f3e6d2b6776a2ad2c79d9b2be7c618785b6f/02.jpg" data-mid="145003979" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c15de56b73da3e21564ec4042fa2f3e6d2b6776a2ad2c79d9b2be7c618785b6f/02.jpg" />Tapestry Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne at Art Rotterdam 2022.&nbsp;© Aad Hoogendoorn Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne | A Group&nbsp;Exhibition at Prospects - Art Rotterdam 2022 (19 - 22 May 2022)The tapestry Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne (2021-2022), produced together with the TextileLab in Tilburg, will be on show for the first time during the annual Prospects exhibition of the Mondrian Fund during Art Rotterdam. Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne researches the historical, present and future connections between oil and myth in aquatic fossil fuel landscapes. By undertaking residencies close to the oil industry’s working places, ecological facts, personal stories and local myths encountered in the landscapes are used to explore the commercial use of both oil and myth. The Mondriaan Fund organizes the annual Prospects exhibition to give an extra impulse to the visibility of starting artists. Having them all together at Art Rotterdam gives art professionals and collectors, as well as a broad group of interested visitors, the opportunity to become acquainted with the work of these promising artists. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4907e79de55735498d73bd829296e38c09f6cb635c7fddb29a2b852f7f549583/DSC02428.jpg" data-mid="136952478" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4907e79de55735498d73bd829296e38c09f6cb635c7fddb29a2b852f7f549583/DSC02428.jpg" />Workshop Concrete Reef with students from the Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht © Deep Time Agency&nbsp; Concrete Reef | A Workshop in a Cement Quarry for the Minor Artistic Research in Situ -Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht (16 - 19 March 2022)In march 2022 we gave a site-specific workshop to the students of the Institute of Fine Arts in the ENCI quarry in Maastricht. During the workshop, we opened up the process of Concrete Reef, further developing the project within an educational framework. The production of the new work is generously supported by the Mondriaan Fonds and the Stichting Niemeijer Fonds. In 2019, artists Miriam Sentler and Wouter Osterholt set up an interdisciplinary research initiative: Deep Time Agency. DTA is designed as a multi-year research project that recontextualizes archaeological objects in industrially changed landscapes in collaboration with local residents, stakeholders and institutions. The initiative merges different historical time layers of places to form a material voice for the present and future of the disrupted landscapes, working in an activist and poetic way with the symbolics of the objects. <img width="1960" height="1304" width_o="1960" height_o="1304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/984524f8d48719b3254448f7682ccd4cad41731895fdff989d8099b03cfce418/Arti-et-Amicitiae-Exploded-View-opening-64-high-res-door-Maarten-Nauw-1.jpg" data-mid="142773251" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/984524f8d48719b3254448f7682ccd4cad41731895fdff989d8099b03cfce418/Arti-et-Amicitiae-Exploded-View-opening-64-high-res-door-Maarten-Nauw-1.jpg" />Janus Walk at Exploded View, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam&nbsp;© &nbsp;Maarten Nauw Janus Walk | A Group&nbsp;Exhibition at Exploded View - Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam (25 Feb. - 27 March 2022) In 2018 and 2019, 13 international artists went on an extended research period to the Parco Regionalle Dell´Appia Antica in Rome (IT). The project took place within the artistic research project Exploded View, organized by curator Dr. Krien Clevis, Prof. dr. Gert-Jan Burgers (VU-Chair in Mediterranean archaeology and heritage/director CLUE+)&nbsp; and Alice Smits (artistic director Zone2Source Amsterdam). The final works will be on show at Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam in February 2022 and has previously been exhibited and presented at Ex Cartiera Latina and MACRO, Museum for Contemporary Art, Rome. Sentler´s project Janus Walk - A Lament for Lost Rites (2019) emphasizes the immaterial and performative rituals of the Via Appia Antica, and how these have been threatened by the over-trafficking of the ancient pilgrimage route. By reintroducing the Roman god Janus and by redeploying him within a performance over the first few miles of the Via Appia Antica, a rare gesture of slowness, performativity and spirituality was made. During the travel, the Roman god of travel and transition guarded the traveler, again fulfilling his role as a protecting spirit. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9306ac841f721754dbbc48778ae05e9eb8ff8686b3c57a62f5040b82a4408825/photocarbain.jpg" data-mid="115063954" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9306ac841f721754dbbc48778ae05e9eb8ff8686b3c57a62f5040b82a4408825/photocarbain.jpg" />CAIRBAN, Hebridean Sea, July 2021. © Miriam Sentler CAIRBAN: A Contemporary Shark Hunt |&nbsp;A&nbsp;Performance at Prøverommet - Bergen Kulturhuset, METEOR (26 Oct. 2021)Reading performance with Robert Carter, presentation ‘The Cairban Gazette’, artist publication realised together with Sadie Hale (PT/UK 1992). During METEOR 2021. Prøverommet is BIT Teatergarasjen's autonomous sidekick, which moves between arenas, galleries and other places around Bergen. This concept provides the opportunity for new voices, new material, thoughts and ideas to be tested in an informal and dynamic alternative to the permanent institutions in Bergen. It has existed together with BIT Teatergarasjen's season program since 1998, and has always searched for the latest developments in the underground of Bergen's art scene. The performance CAIRBAN – A Contemporary Shark Hunt is rooted within a three-day sea journey on the Atlantic Ocean, searching for the elusive Basking Shark. The project is initiated by artist Miriam Sentler (1994, DE/NL) and environmental humanities researcher Sadie Hale (1992, UK/PT) and formed their first collaboration. The performance is accompanied by the launch of a new artist publication: ‘The Cairban Gazette’, a newspaper which gathers different historical gazes on the Basking shark, spanning from the 18th century until the present day. The front page features the news about the crew's own non-encounter, letting the shark ‘off the hook’ after centuries of being captured in newspaper headlines. <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff596fad662065ce534d06faf6605721276b531f36fce0e06fc89acac9a096eb/textielmuseum2.jpg" data-mid="170260924" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff596fad662065ce534d06faf6605721276b531f36fce0e06fc89acac9a096eb/textielmuseum2.jpg" /> Sampling in the Textiellab, the professional workplace of the Textielmuseum Tilburg © *Lotte van Dijk Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne | Production of a New Tapestry at the TextielLab / TextielMuseum Tilburg (Aug. - Dec. 2021) Thanks to the amazing support of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Stichting Stokroos and the Mondriaan Fonds, I will develop a new, large-scale textile work at the Textielmuseum in the upcoming months.&nbsp; The TextielLab is the professional working place of the Textielmuseum. It distinguishes itself as a one-of-a-kind knowledge centre for textile development where professionals are explicitly involved in carrying out extraordinary, customised projects. The TextielLab focuses on manual and industrial techniques: weaving, knitting, embroidery, tufting, passementerie and laser cutting. For visitors, the TextielLab offers a unique glimpse at textile manufacturing techniques both old and new. Here you can watch professionals at work. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d053e84eba11ad7d833c92aed7c6e180fa27c6e2be3c50c517f459aad71c20ee/thechase-1.jpg" data-mid="115374023" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d053e84eba11ad7d833c92aed7c6e180fa27c6e2be3c50c517f459aad71c20ee/thechase-1.jpg" /> Recording birdsongs 2021.&nbsp;© &nbsp;Sadie Hale The Chase: An Artist Talk and Auditive Performance | A Solo presentation at CIAP/ FLACC Genk (14 Aug. 2021)Guest speakers: composer Drake Stoughton (USA) &amp; ornithologist Johan Schoonaert (BE)CIAP invites Miriam to be the next guest to animate a piece of public furniture — the heated daybed, realised on the C-mine site by Ciel Grommen and Maximiliaan Royakkers. Departing from the question of how to inhabit the ‘disturbed landscape’of Winterslag, their project Le Paysage Ménagé provided both a physical and theoretical framework for future interventions on site. Miriam Sentler’s talk and auditory performance is the second episode in the series of events planned on and around the heated daybed, and bringing together its different users.&nbsp; The event marks the beginning of a longer project at Jester Genk, researching the post-industrial landscape of Genk in Belgium. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f63f78519acf860410fe29a775a2bc97db2fff03d8ad7b96621f6d4df4fd2d9d/Oilplatforms_Agnotes2.jpg" data-mid="170260855" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f63f78519acf860410fe29a775a2bc97db2fff03d8ad7b96621f6d4df4fd2d9d/Oilplatforms_Agnotes2.jpg" />Oil platform at Agotnes, documentation of residency in Bergen, november 2021 © Miriam Sentler Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne | A Residency at USF Verftet Residency, Bergen Norway (16 Sept. -16 Nov. 2021) &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In the upcoming year and with the generous financial support of the Stipendium for Emerging Artists of the Mondriaan Fund and the Gerbrandy Culture Fund, I will start a period of site-specific research into aquatic fossil fuel landscapes. The artistic project Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne discusses the triangle of the natural, the industrial and the mythical in industrially deployed seascapes, questioning the use of mythical symbols and natural matter by the fossil fuel industry. For this new project, I will stay from September until December 2021 at the United Sardine Factory residency in Bergen, Norway. USF Verftet and the council of Bergen offers a residency to professional artists of all fields. The aim is to strengthen, promote and develop collaborations between contemporary artists in Bergen and foreign artists. Yearly, an average of eight international artists and writers are selected for the residency program. <img width="961" height="641" width_o="961" height_o="641" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88fe1d6fb92e060fa7c85d3cc5cddcb631a8505e35602e262421b1581af67fef/t25.JPEG" data-mid="167556120" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/961/i/88fe1d6fb92e060fa7c85d3cc5cddcb631a8505e35602e262421b1581af67fef/t25.JPEG" />Documentation of residency on Isle of Coll, Scotland, july 202.&nbsp;© &nbsp;Sadie Hale Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne | A Residency at KNOCKvologan Residency, Mull, Scotland (02 Jul. -01 Aug. 2021) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In the upcoming year and with the generous financial support of the Stipendium for Emerging Artists of the Mondriaan Fund and the Gerbrandy Culture Fund, I will start a period of site-specific research into aquatic fossil fuel landscapes. The artistic project Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne discusses the triangle of the natural, the industrial and the mythical in industrially deployed seascapes, questioning the use of mythical symbols and natural matter by the fossil fuel industry. For this new project, I will stay in July 2021 at the KNOCKvologan Residency on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, together with writer Sadie Hale. The residency offers a remote refuge for art, literature, research and nature preservation and strengthens collaborations between artists, writers, researchers and the local community. During our residency, we will research natural origins of oil production, focussing on the plankton-feeding Basking Shark inhabiting the waters around the Isle of Mull. https://miriamsentler.com/About-CV-Contact Sun, 27 Dec 2020 10:21:00 +0000 Miriam Sentler https://miriamsentler.com/About-CV-Contact <img width="4724" height="5906" width_o="4724" height_o="5906" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0912704062b7e28e0d86f817189ebd8f98a8aa366f81c97a5b8f1f74dba2c5be/MIRIAM_03_Joris_Hilterman-1.jpg" data-mid="218945408" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0912704062b7e28e0d86f817189ebd8f98a8aa366f81c97a5b8f1f74dba2c5be/MIRIAM_03_Joris_Hilterman-1.jpg" /> Photo: Joris Hilterman Contact ︎ miriam.sentler@live.nl︎ miriamsentler &nbsp;︎ deeptimeagency@gmail.com︎ www.deeptimeagency.com Studio address:&nbsp; Atelier Miriam Sentler is currently located in the office buildings of the former Bøn Hydropower plant (Bønsdalsvegen 32, 2073 Bøn) in Eidsvoll, NO. Studio visits only by appointment.&nbsp; AboutMiriam Sentler (b. 1994, DE/NL) is a contemporary artist and researcher living in Norway. Educated at the Maastricht Institute of Fine Arts and the University of Amsterdam, she is currently a doctoral research fellow in Petroculture Studies at the University of Oslo. Her projects address mining histories and the realities of left-behind extractive landscapes, and often result in long research trajectories that take shape in different mediums, including installations, performance, audio, textiles, drawings, artist publications, and essays. Inspired by her family history in the coal-mining region of Limburg, she addresses complex questions of belonging, myth-making, transformation, and sacrifice across different landscapes. In 2019, she founded the artistic research initiative&nbsp;Deep Time Agency together with artist Wouter Osterholt.&nbsp; Her work is permanently represented in several museum- and private collections in the Netherlands. Recent international exhibitions and collaborations include: Museum Rijswijk (NL), Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (DE), Metode/ Lofoten International Art Biennale (NO), RADIUS, Centre for Art &amp; Ecology, Delft (NL), Jester Genk (BE), U10 Art Space Belgrade (RS), Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam (NL), Textielmuseum Tilburg (NL), LVR Landesmuseum Bonn (DE), Art Quarter Budapest (HU) and Art Rotterdam (NL). She was an artist in residence and visiting research fellow at UHI Orkney (UK), USF Verftet Bergen (NO), Knockvologan Studies (UK), RAVI Liége (BE), Parco dell’ Appia Antica Rome (IT), Jester (formerly CIAP/FLACC) Genk (BE) and Gaada Shetland (i.c.w. Pamflett Bergen) (UK). &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="286" height="300" width_o="286" height_o="300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75e9236db9c0f87ccbb36223a118106d0df49a1e085a6ae1e64055756a083aee/MFO_LOGO_EN_RGB_WIT_SMALL-286x300.png" data-mid="174509551" border="0" data-scale="7" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/286/i/75e9236db9c0f87ccbb36223a118106d0df49a1e085a6ae1e64055756a083aee/MFO_LOGO_EN_RGB_WIT_SMALL-286x300.png" />. &nbsp;<img width="2973" height="1000" width_o="2973" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96a7ed892362eabfc5159c7d0ebfc785d2c7fdc27739b919c13fa00de27f1a57/NFR-logo-eng-rgb.svg" data-mid="194255796" border="0" data-scale="27" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96a7ed892362eabfc5159c7d0ebfc785d2c7fdc27739b919c13fa00de27f1a57/NFR-logo-eng-rgb.svg" />.&nbsp; Generously supported by the Mondriaan Fund &amp; the Research Council of Norway (2023-2027) Education &amp; Fellowships 2023-27&nbsp;Ph.D. Research Fellow Petroculture Studies, University of Oslo (NO)2018-20&nbsp;r.MA Artistic Research, cum laude, University of Amsterdam (NL) 2017-18&nbsp;Certificate, Goldsmiths University of Arts London (UK)2012-16&nbsp;BFA Fine Arts, cum laude, Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL) Artist Residencies &amp; Research Stays 2025 The University of Highlands and Islands, supported by the EARTH Scholarship, Orkney Islands (UK) 2023-24&nbsp;Gaada, in collaboration with Pamflett Bergen (NO), Burra, Shetland Islands (UK) 2022-23 Jester (formerly: CIAP/FLACC) in collaboration with Emile van Dorenmuseum, Genk (BE) &nbsp; 2021 USF Verftet, The United Sardine Factory, Bergen (NO) 2021 KNOCKvologan Studies, Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Scotland (UK) 2019 Exploded View, Parco Regionale Dell’ Appia Antica, Rome (IT)2018 RAVI, Résidences Ateliers Vivegnis International, Liége (BE) 2017 70º Arctic Island Residency, La Wayaka Current, Sápmi, Sørøya, Finnmark (NO) 2016 Overgangszone, ENCI Cement Factory, Maastricht (NL) Solo &amp; Group Exhibitions&nbsp; *(G) group- and (S) solo exhibitions&nbsp; 2025 Out of Sight (G), curated by&nbsp;Katya Borisova and Judith Voorwerk, TENT Rotterdam (NL)2025 Textile Biennial: Interwoven Futures: Utopia/Dystopia in Textile (G) curated by Julia Geerlings, Museum Rijswijk (NL) 2025 Ruins &amp; Renewal (G) during Art Rotterdam, curated by Hannah van den Elzen,&nbsp;Het Archief, Rotterdam (NL) 2024-25 Mining Myths (S), Museum het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard (NL) 2024-25 Overburden: On Extractivism and The Shape of Things To Come (G), Greylight Projects, Heerlen (NL) 2024 Your Water Our Water, with DTA (G) U10 Art Space, Belgrade (RS) 2024 Your Water Our Water, with DTA (G) Art Quarter, Budapest (HU) 2024 Your Water Our Water,&nbsp;with DTA (G) DELPHI Art Space, Freiburg im Breisgau (DE) 2024 -162°C, 450 kg/m³, Fossil Energy, Fragile Futures (G) curator L. Reisner, Kunsthalle Willemshaven (DE) 2023-24 Secrets of Making #3 (G) curator D. Klijs, Textielmuseum, Tilburg (NL)2023-24&nbsp;The Forest Underground (G) Veldwerkers, C-Mine, Genk (BE) 2023-24 Brigdi Island (S), curator D. Clark &amp; A. Gear, Gaada, Burra, Shetland (UK) 2023 Petromelancholia (G) curator A. Klose i.c.w. Goethe Institut, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL) 2023 CAIRBAN - A Contemporary Shark Hunt (S) Hvalsalen, Universitetsmuseet Naturhistorie, Bergen (NO) 2022 Archive Event VI: The Chase - Miriam Sentler (S) Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL) 2022 Deep Time Agency (S) Gallery 3 - Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL) 2022 Nieuwe Uitzichten (G) curator J. Vossebeld, Museum Bommel van Dam &amp; Odapark, Venlo &amp; Venray (NL) 2022 Climate of Concern (G)&nbsp;curator N. Lekkerkerk &amp; S. Rusca, RADIUS CCA, Centre for Contemporary Art &amp; Ecology, Delft (NL) 2022 Still Waters Run Deep (G) curator M. Augustijn, Nieuw Dakota Amsterdam (NL) 2022&nbsp;Prospects, Art Rotterdam (G) curator J. Gustavsson, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam (NL) 2022 Ancestors Rising (G) curator R. Peters, LVR Landesmuseum - Tag der Archäologie, Aussenstelle Titz (DE) 2022&nbsp;Exploded View (G) curator K. Clevis, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL) 2021 CAIRBAN (G)&nbsp;curator L. Lax, Prøverommet, METEOR Performance Festival, Kulturhuset Bergen (NO) 2020 Ecotones - Bodies in Tension (G)&nbsp;curator M. Lanari, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (NL) 2020 Objets Trouvés/Verloren Voorwerpen (G)&nbsp;curator B. Puype, with Nowhere collective, various locations, Bruges (BE) 2020&nbsp;Letters from the South (G)&nbsp;with Nowhere collective, The Wrong Biennale (WW)2019&nbsp;Exploded View (G)&nbsp;curator K. Clevis, MACRO Museum for Contemporary Art / Ex Cartiera Latina, Rome (IT) 2019 Fairshare: Publishing as Artistic Practice (G)&nbsp;curator A. Melzacka, CIAP Kunstverein, Hasselt (BE)2019 Ten is for God (G) curator P. Albuquerque, Neverneverland, Amsterdam (NL)2018 Elite 2018 (G)&nbsp;curator S. Maes &amp; A. Melzacka, KRIEG Gallery, Hasselt (BE)2018&nbsp;Urban Storytelling: L'Art pour elkaar (G)&nbsp;curator J. Vossebeld, Bureau Europa, Maastricht (NL)2018 Do you Read.me? (G)&nbsp;organised by&nbsp;Nowhere Collective,&nbsp;SB34 The Pool, Brussels (BE)2018 Ouverture des Ateliers RAVI (G)&nbsp;curator F. Laixhai, RAVI, Liège (BE)2017 Solastalgia (G)&nbsp;curator E. Kersten, AINSI, Maastricht (NL)2017 Open studios (G) curator S. Iversen, La Wayaka Current Arctic Base, Sørøya (NO)2017 Start Up: Slow Accident (G)&nbsp;curator P. Devens, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (NL) 2017 Marres Currents: Running Time (G) curator B. Hendrikx &amp; B. Cueto, Marres, Maastricht (NL) 2017 Realities Revised (G)&nbsp;curator A. Melzacka, B32, Maastricht (NL)2016 Young Masters (G)&nbsp;curator R. Boxman, Media Art Festival, Leeuwarden (NL)2016 Fresh Cacao (G)&nbsp;curator J. Tullemans, de Cacaofabriek, Helmond (NL) 2016 Change of Perspective (G)&nbsp;curator J. Capra, Biennale L’image Possible - Galerie des Écuries, Liège (BE) 2016 Best of graduates 2016 (G)&nbsp;curator R. Vana, Gallery Ron Mandos, Amsterdam (NL) 2016 Overgangszone (G) curator K. Clevis, Artistic Research on the ENCI Marl Quarry, Maastricht (NL) 2016 Graduation Show Bachelor Fine Arts (G)&nbsp;curator P. Devens, Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht (NL) 2016 U Turn (G) Apprentice Master, curator A. Szabo, MKE Barcsay Hall, Budapest (HU) Commissioned Projects 2025-27 (current) The Giants Bones, project in Limburg and Indonesia with Deep Time Agency and Odapark Venray (NL) 2025-27 (current) Underwater Palace, project with Deep Time Agency and Mediamatic, Amsterdam (NL)2025 Bog Guardians, project with Deep Time Agency and University of Cork, Lemanaghan Bog, Offaly (IE) 2023 Ruigoord: Oase van Verwondering (G) curator I. Ruigrok, Ruigoord, Amsterdam (NL) 2022 Nieuwe Uitzichten (G) curator S. van Stein &amp; J. Vossebeld, Museum Bommel van Dam &amp; Odapark, Tegelen (NL)2015 After Dark (S) Commissioned artwork in public space Waldeckpark, municipality of Maastricht (NL) Private &amp; Public Collections 2024 Museum het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard (NL) 2023&nbsp;Fine Art &amp; Design Library KMD, Bergen (NO) 2022 R.&nbsp;Lekkerkerk/ RADIUS, Centre for Contemporary Art and Ecology, Delft (NL) Grants, Awards &amp; Nominations 2023-27 Research fellowship, University of Oslo, funded by the Research Council of Norway (NO) 2023-27 Artist Basic Grant (FKA Stipendium for Established Artists), Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam (NL) 2026 Project Grant for IJ-Paleis, with Deep Time Agency, Iona Stichting Amsterdam (NL) 2024-25 EARTH Scholarship, British Council Scotland and the Scottish Graduate School of Arts &amp; Humanities (SGSAH) (UK) 2024-25 Project Grant, new work The Moving Energy Theatre Shetland, Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam (NL) 2024-25 Project Grant, new work Bog Guardians with Deep Time Agency, Iona Stichting, Amsterdam (NL) 2023 Project Grant, Stichting Stokroos, Hanzenfonds &amp; BRUTUS Rotterdam for Mining Myths tapestry, Rotterdam (NL) 2022-23 Project Grant, Onderzoeks &amp; Ontwikkelingssubsidie for the Forest Underground, CBK Rotterdam (NL) 2022-23 Project Grant, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, childrenbook Planktos Rising, Amsterdam (NL) 2022&nbsp;Project Grant for Deep Time Agency - Nieuwe Instituut, Iona Stichting, Amsterdam (NL) 2022 Nomination C.o.C.A. Foundation Award, curated by Imke Ruigrok, Rotterdam (NL) 2022 Project Grant, Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, Concrete Reef - Deep Time Agency, Dordrecht (NL)2022 Project Grant, BBK Neustart, Ancestors Rising - Deep Time Agency, Berlin (BE)2021 Project Grant, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds/ Tijl Fonds - new work at TextielMuseum, Tilburg (NL)2021 Project Grant, Stichting Stokroos - new work at TextielMuseum, Tilburg (NL)2021 Project Grant, Gerbrandy Cultuurfonds - Knockvologan Studies Residency, Scotland (UK) 2020-21&nbsp;Stipendium for Emerging Artists, Mondriaanfonds, mentorship with Justin Bennet, Rotterdam (NL) 2016&nbsp;Nomination Young Blood Award - Gallery Ron Mandos, Amsterdam (NL)2016 Nomination Henriëtte Hustinx Award - Faculty Prize Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)2016 Nomination Young Master Award - Media Art Festival Friesland &amp; AADK Spain (NL, ES) Artist Talks, Conferences &amp; Other Presentations 2026 (upcoming) Presentation, Green Acts, “Situating Energy,”&nbsp;Petrocultures Conference Dresden (DE) 2026 (upcoming) Lunch Seminar, The Fantastical (Re)Imagination of the Green Energy Frontier in Shetland, OCEH Lab, Oslo (NO) 2026 Panel presentation, Miriam Sentler in conversation with Dr. Antonia Thomas,&nbsp; EARTH Scholarship Impact Symposium, Glasgow (UK) 2025 Presentation, Cairban: A Contemporary Shark Hunt, Eco-Emotions on Water Conference, Kulturhuset Oslo (NO) 2024 Presentation,&nbsp;Deep Time Agency, FenScan archaeology&nbsp;conference,&nbsp;Hyytiälä Forest Station, Finland (FI) 2024 Presentation,&nbsp;How to Act on Oil, Metode #3, ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Oslo (NO) 2024 Presentation,&nbsp;Translatability of Oil (TOIL) conference, University of Oslo (NL) 2024 Panel Speaker,&nbsp;Tales of the North Sea Oil City, Panel speaker at Petrocultures Conference, Los Angeles (USA) 2024 Presentation,&nbsp;Reclaiming Myth, Creative Practice Research Group,&nbsp;Nordic Black Theatre, Oslo (NO) 2023 Artist Talk &amp; Walk,&nbsp;On Solastalgia and Lakes, BALATORIUM Ecological &amp; Cultural Weekend, Örvényes (HU) 2023 Artist Talk,&nbsp;Deep Time Agency in relation to the Viking windmills, artist talk, Gaada, Isle of Burra, Shetland (UK) 2023 Round table &amp; artist talk,&nbsp;Planktos Rising, during Bergen Art Book Fair, Kunsthall, Bergen (NO) 2023 Presentation,&nbsp;GRIP: Speculative Urban Futures, org. Brandon LaBelle &amp; Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Errant Bodies Press, Berlin (DE) 2023 Artist Talk,&nbsp;An Afternoon Filled with Jester Artists, presenting the Forest Underground, Jester, C-Mine Genk (BE) 2022 Panel Speaker, symposium The History, Present &amp; Future of the Environmental Humanities, ASCA &amp; NICA VOXPOP Amsterdam (NL)2022 Presentation, geSCHICHTEN Rheinisches Revier, LVR Landesmuseum, Abtei Brauweiler (DE)2022 Presentation, Ancestors Rising, Tag der Archäeologie, LVR Aussenstelle Titz (DE) 2022 Presentation, Sink or Swim, Vrije Universiteit, Environmental Humanities Center, Amsterdam (NL) 2022 Presentation, Strukturwandel im Rheinischen Revier, Presentation, LVR- Kulturkonferenz, Brauweiler (DE) 2022 Artist Talk, Pilgrimage &amp; Art on the Via Appia, Museum het Valkhof, Nijmegen (NL)2022 Keynote presentation, Artistic Research in Situ, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, UvA &amp; Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL) 2021 Presentation,&nbsp;The Chase: An Auditive Walk &amp; Artist Talk, CIAP Kunstverein, C Mine, Genk (BE) 2021 Presentation,&nbsp;CAIRBAN - A Contemporary Shark Hunt, KNOCKvologan Studies, Scotland (UK) 2021 Presentation, Speculative Urban Futures, Natural History Museum Bergen, University of Bergen (NO)&nbsp; 2021 Artist Talk, ARRG: Antonis Pittas and Miriam Sentler, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, UvA (NL)2019 Artist Talk, Printing Plant Art Book Fair: with curator Mariam Zulfiqar, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL) 2019 Artist Talk, Exploded View, Janus Walk, MACRO, Museum for Contemporary Art, Rome (IT) 2019 Presentation, The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place, LCIR, University of Oxford (UK) 2019 Artist Talk, Fairshare: Building an Archive of a Disappearing Landscape, CIAP Kunstverein Hasselt (BE) 2018 Artist Talk, Artistic Research on the Via Appia Antica, Ex Cartiera Latina, Rome (IT) 2018 Artist Talk, Artistic Research &amp; Archaeology, VU Archaeology, CLUE+, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) 2017 Artist Talk, Marres Currents #4: Running time, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (NL) Teaching &amp; Education 2025 Nature &amp; Ecology: Noticing in the Field, ARiS Workshop, 2nd &amp; 3rd year iArts/ Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)2023 Workshop, A Bridge between Basking Sharks and Plankton Blooms, Gaada, Isle of Burra, Shetland (UK) 2023 Marl Matters core workshop, guest teaching with Elena Khurtova, ARiS minor, 3rd year Fine Arts Maastricht Institute of Art (NL)2022 Deep Time Agency, Minor Creative Research for Change, 3rd year, HKU, Utrecht (NL)2022 Minor: Artistic Research in Situ, 3rd year Fine Arts &amp; Design, Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht NL) 2022 Studio Dialogues, 4th year Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL) 2018-2022 Guided tours and education for school classes and private groups at Garage Rotterdam (NL)2021 Art &amp; Ecology, Professional International Practice, 4th year, Royal Academy of the Haque (NL)2021 Landscape and Memory, 4th year Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)2020 Object, Material, Experiment, Master Art History, 1st year, University of Amsterdam (NL) 2017-2018 Tour guide, London Bicycle Tour Company, London (UK) 2018 Bricolage &amp; Memory, 1st &amp; 3rd year Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht (NL)2017 Bricolage &amp; Memory, 1st year Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht (NL) 2017 Overgangszone ArtLab, Natural History Museum Maastricht (NL) Essays &amp; Written Research Dissimination 2026 “Oil Pigs: The Moving Energy Theatre and ‘Performing the Archive’ in Shetland,” SGSAH Blog, March 2026, Glasgow (UK) 2026 Newspaper article about wind energy and mythology in the Shetland Times, 02 January 2026, Shetland (UK) 2025 “How to Act on Oil” in METODE #3 Currents, Metode i.c.w. Lofoten International Art Festival, feb. 2025, Oslo (NO)2025 “Oil and Island Culture in Shetland: A Conversation w/ Miriam Sentler”, TOIL Research Blog, jan. 2025, University of Oslo (NL) 2025 “Oil Encounters in Shetland”, TOIL research blog, jan. 2025, University of Oslo (NL) 2023 “Field Arts - Field Docket”, Sonic Acts Press, edited by J. Diamanti &amp; F. Carter, print, Amsterdam (NL) 2021 “Exploded View: Art and Research on Layered Landscapes”, CLUE+ Publication, print and online, Amsterdam (NL) and Rome (IT) 2020 “Shifting Earth Archivers - Human and Non-Human Memory, Activism and Archiving in Relation to North-Rhine Westphalian Lignite Industry.”&nbsp;Master Thesis, supervised by M. van Rijsingen and P. 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Edition II, print, Amsterdam (NL) Selected Art Press&nbsp; 2025 &nbsp;Interweaving Mythology and Energy: An Interview with Miriam Sentler on her Tapestry Works, written by Eva Pritchard, TOIL research group blog, University of Oslo, online 2025&nbsp;Theatre of Absurd takes Energetic Look at Up-Helly-Aa Through History, written by Daniel Shailer, The Shetland Times, print, Friday 18th of July 2025. 2025 Textielbiennale 2025 at Museum Rijswijk, written by Astrid Burchardt, Artstalk Magazine Holland, online 2025 Collectiebijdrage Nieuwe Aanwinsten Musea 2025: Het Nieuwe Domein, written by Arent Boon, Metropolis M, online and print2025 Radio Interview, “Burn-Up the Oil Dragon”, Good Evening Shetland, 13.02.2025, BBC Radio Shetland, Lerwick (UK) 2024 Deep Time Matters with Miriam Sentler and Paulina Blaeslid, MATER Podcast hosted by curator Maddie Rose Hills, online 2024 NDR Kultur, report,&nbsp;Wilhelmshaven: Fossile Energie Auf der Bühne und in der Kunsthalle, Jutta Przygoda, online, TV, radio 2023 Mister Motley, column, ‘Een zwarte drug: over hoe aardolie dwars door ons heen gaat, online &amp; print 2023 Trouw, reportage, (...)&nbsp;‘Petromelancholia’ toont de schoonheid en horror van het olietijdperk, online &amp; print 2023 Marres House for Contemporary Culture, publication,&nbsp;Until we Meet Again: 10 Years of Currents, print 2023 See All This Magazine, reportage,&nbsp;Pretty Brilliant Women in the Arts: Bernard Cultuurfonds presents, print 2022 MATER Platform, feature,&nbsp;Miriam Sentler: Deep Time Agency, edited by Madie Rose Hills, online 2022 Jester &amp; FLACC, interview,&nbsp;Exploring the Underground Forest, online 2022&nbsp;Metropolis M, review, Activistisch zijn zonder activistisch te ogen - een bezoek aan Radius, by Domeniek Ruyters, print 2022&nbsp;Trouw, review, Van Vermeer-fans tot Shell-personeel: de doelgroep van het klimaatmuseum is breed, by&nbsp;Frank Straver, print 2022 Mondriaanfonds,&nbsp;Prospects 2022, catalogue, by Sarah van Binsbergen, print and online 2022 Lost Painters, review, Prospects - 2022, by Niek Hendrikx, online 2022 Kunstblijfteenraadsel, review, Prospects 2022 - Art Rotterdam, by Paul Voors, online 2022 Metropolis M, review, van groot naar klein: Prospects - Art Rotterdam 2022, by Joris van den Einden, online and print 2022 Trendbeheer, Review, Prospects 2022, by Niels Post, online 2022 Trendbeheer, Feature, Studio visit: Het Atelier van Miriam Sentler, by Najiba Brakkee, online 2022 Het Parool, Review, De geschiedenis afgraven met de blik van een kunstenaar, by&nbsp;Edo Dijksterhuis, online and print2021 The Art of Swimming with Sharks. The Outdoor Swimming Society, October Edition, edited by Beth Pearson, London (UK) 2021 Hurrikan Press Glasgow, Publication, WAVE Zine, curated by Anna Tudos, print 2021 CLUE+, Publication, Exploded View: Art and Research on Layered Landscapes, ed. Gert-Jan Burgers, print2020 Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender 2020, Publication, Trichis Books Breda, print2019 Roma Aeterna Magazine, Publication, Exploded View, print 2019 Tubelight Magazine 111, Feature, De Overgang van Dorpen naar Meren, edited by Brenda Tempelaar, online and print 2019 Kunstblijfteenraadsel, Review, Op atelierbezoek bij Miriam Sentler, written by Paul Voors, online 2019 Metropolis M, Feature, Micro Art Initiatives #22: Nowhere, written by Lotte van Geijn, online and print2018 Exhibition cataloque, Residences Ateliers Vivegnis International 2018, print 2018 RTC Tele Liége, TV Report, Portes Ouvertes Résidences Ateliers Ravi, online and tv2017 Tique Art Paper, Feature, The Horrific History of Erik Thorvaldsson, edited by Welmer Keesmaat, online 2017 D!ng Art Magazine London, Feature, Four-year Anniversary Issue, curated by Jolien Dirix, online and print 2017 Exhibition cataloque, Marres Currents Running Time, written by Bas Hendrikx &amp; Barbara Cueto, Marres Maastricht, print 2017 RTV Maastricht, K.i.M TV Report, B32: Realities Revised, online and tv2016 SSBA Salon, Review, Ron Mandos: Best of Graduates 2016, written by Jorik Amit Galama, online 2016 Lost Painters, Review, Ron Mandos; Best of Graduates, written by Niek Hendrikx, online 2016 Lost Painters, Eindexamen expo ABK Maastricht, written by Niek Hendrikx, online2015 GUP Magazine, Publication, New Dutch Photography Talent 2015, print Miscellaneous 2025-2026&nbsp;Member Kongsberg Kunstforening (NO) 2024-present Member Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH)(NO) 2023-present Member Translatability of Oil Project, University of Oslo (NO) 2020-present Founding member and director Deep Time Agency - www.deeptimeagency.com https://miriamsentler.com/Mining-Myths Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:30:24 +0000 Miriam Sentler https://miriamsentler.com/Mining-Myths &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="5284" height="3609" width_o="5284" height_o="3609" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/638d6ff5f80c00bfcbfb66e07a21a21b65476eec2064839ef3655470e86fa368/111.jpg" data-mid="222177002" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/638d6ff5f80c00bfcbfb66e07a21a21b65476eec2064839ef3655470e86fa368/111.jpg" /> Mining Myths in solo-exhibition at Museum het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard (NL), 2024. Photo: Jonathan Widdershoven. Mining Myths This work was developed during residencies and research periods in the lignite (brown coal) mines of Garzweiler, DE and on the premises of a former coal mine in Genk, BE. In collaboration with Jester and the Emile van Dorenmuseum in Genk, BE.&nbsp; Thanks to Lotte van Dijk, Alexander Klose, Dewi Baggerman, Alicja Melzacka, Maaike Orlando Gouwenberg and Kristof Reulens. Collection: Museum het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard, NL <img width="768" height="640" width_o="768" height_o="640" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/396662affb46c06b8f19a2353e918b94c2b6ff6dc4f16e6e4af3ef842ba26d62/FDR2yQcWQAQaPnN.png" data-mid="190405721" border="0" data-scale="31" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/396662affb46c06b8f19a2353e918b94c2b6ff6dc4f16e6e4af3ef842ba26d62/FDR2yQcWQAQaPnN.png" />.&nbsp; <img width="283" height="400" width_o="283" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d679ef2f2b75677fa2360b4661c702084265994b88d758b357a6b0a4d1edf1af/stokroos_logo_103-176mm_cmyk-magenta400px.png" data-mid="190405723" border="0" data-scale="18" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/283/i/d679ef2f2b75677fa2360b4661c702084265994b88d758b357a6b0a4d1edf1af/stokroos_logo_103-176mm_cmyk-magenta400px.png" />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="2000" height="1730" width_o="2000" height_o="1730" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea367ede9f927b08912631a695d00a33e77a1cb68bdfcbc7fcd9d704b67a7b19/PBCF_Logo_oranje_RGB.png" data-mid="190405722" border="0" data-scale="30" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea367ede9f927b08912631a695d00a33e77a1cb68bdfcbc7fcd9d704b67a7b19/PBCF_Logo_oranje_RGB.png" />. &nbsp;The project is generously funded by BRUTUS, Mondrian Fund, Stichting Stokroos and Hanzenfonds (Prince Bernhard Culture Fund). &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (2023) Tapestry, 350 x 175 cm. Jacquard weave, merino wool and cotton. Produced in collaboration with the TextileLab, the professional workplace of the Textielmuseum Tilburg. Mining Myths interweaves coal and myth in the mined underworld of Limburg, a geographical area stretching over the boarders of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. The research for this second tapestry took place during a residency with Jester (formerly CIAP/FLACC) and the Emile van Dorenmuseum in Genk, one of the largest former mining towns of Belgium. This region also represents the birth place of Miriam and her ancestors who were themselves miners. The tapestry displays how mythology is being used in the present day to rebrand the former mining buildings and towns, as well as how it has been reshaped and distributed in the past by the state mines, making the descent into the depths morally just. Exemplary, the locations of purgatory and hell were “relocated” deeper within earth’s layers, relieving fear about a possible encounter with the devil. In the present day, a viewing platform over the Hambacher mine is inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes and a former mining building in Genk has been named after Thor, god of thunder and lightning. The research for the project is based on the books “the Luck of Limburg” by Marcia Luyten (2015) and “Troye of the Carbon” by Dutch fairytale-author Bertus Aafjes (1961). Some details tell about the “resurrection” of mineworkers in collapsed mine shafts in order to avoid the pay of worker compensations in the case of death underground. Another part of the tapestry tells about the Sisyphus-work of the mineworkers’ wives who had to clean their husbands’ cloth bundles 6 days a week. In the center-right we see the slaying of the “coal dragon”, giving heroic pride to the workers battling darkness and explosions on a daily basis. In the middle of the tapestry we see the mineworkers’ patroness Barbara, with a mineshaft - instead of the trademark tower - in her lap. <img width="3000" height="1924" width_o="3000" height_o="1924" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73e319db65cff90bf67e780462b1df56ba38e04223ae6b08345fda55470a124d/5000-Sentler_2403_KHW_Fossile-Energie_fragile-Zukunft_091-2.jpg" data-mid="215150545" border="0" data-scale="93" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73e319db65cff90bf67e780462b1df56ba38e04223ae6b08345fda55470a124d/5000-Sentler_2403_KHW_Fossile-Energie_fragile-Zukunft_091-2.jpg" />Mining Myths at -162°C, 450 kg/m³ | Fossil Energy, Fragile Futures, 09.03. to 26.05.2024, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, exhibition view. Photo: Edward Greiner <img width="1838" height="1000" width_o="1838" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ff2048ffff9f9b9bb3b0e6e592c23863fe331889e164191faeb628f165ee542/details.jpg" data-mid="216627850" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ff2048ffff9f9b9bb3b0e6e592c23863fe331889e164191faeb628f165ee542/details.jpg" /> Details Mining Myths tapestry. Photo: Jonathan Widdershoven/ Het Nieuwe Domein, 2024. &nbsp;<img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f59e0223e807ecfd0dbddf8e8e7ff5796197688aa8b03d5beb6036be164f4dfd/z13.jpg" data-mid="222982473" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f59e0223e807ecfd0dbddf8e8e7ff5796197688aa8b03d5beb6036be164f4dfd/z13.jpg" /> Mining Myths Solo Exhibition, Museum het Nieuwe Domein, 2024. Photo: Miriam Sentler. <img width="3000" height="2001" width_o="3000" height_o="2001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36aded391bee67e8079f69d52607d548a536eb598993c2dc6e658e9ac91a4b7d/03.-2403_KHW_Fossile-Energie_fragile-Zukunft_009.jpg" data-mid="208345923" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36aded391bee67e8079f69d52607d548a536eb598993c2dc6e658e9ac91a4b7d/03.-2403_KHW_Fossile-Energie_fragile-Zukunft_009.jpg" /> -162°C, 450 kg/m³ | Fossil Energy, Fragile Futures, 09.03. to 26.05.2024, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, exhibition view, Photo: Edward Greiner. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abadbe9d16d3b06e90db7854809274c97893a8e4ab6691e50845c3dfa455249d/2403_KHW_Fossile-Energie_fragile-Zukunft_010.jpg" data-mid="217041348" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abadbe9d16d3b06e90db7854809274c97893a8e4ab6691e50845c3dfa455249d/2403_KHW_Fossile-Energie_fragile-Zukunft_010.jpg" />-162°C, 450 kg/m³ | Fossil Energy, Fragile Futures, 09.03. to 26.05.2024, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, exhibition view, Photo: Edward Greiner. <img width="3902" height="2740" width_o="3902" height_o="2740" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08b76b64f85734354a5b81b633581f6f3e3121b0008a69d474f15d1ddc2d2732/brutus5.jpg" data-mid="190455561" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08b76b64f85734354a5b81b633581f6f3e3121b0008a69d474f15d1ddc2d2732/brutus5.jpg" /> Weaving process Mining Myths&nbsp;in the Textiellab, the professional workplace of the Textielmuseum, july 2023, Tilburg, NL.<img width="4000" height="2054" width_o="4000" height_o="2054" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0afa2aa3bcf8306509923bc82226b55059eb59b1a69ba66a2ecf929ff42475e6/kl_Tekening-Mining-Myths-final-260623.jpg" data-mid="190409708" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0afa2aa3bcf8306509923bc82226b55059eb59b1a69ba66a2ecf929ff42475e6/kl_Tekening-Mining-Myths-final-260623.jpg" /> Drawing Mining Myths, pastel pencils, paper. 350 x 175 cm, photo credits: Miriam Sentler, 2023. https://miriamsentler.com/Floating-Fathers Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:26:13 +0000 Miriam Sentler https://miriamsentler.com/Floating-Fathers &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5e78a0e5e94d24c8846d1d1c9137bcdb2b0a102df1346a0b2945c6fccd1679c/600.jpg" data-mid="222892326" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5e78a0e5e94d24c8846d1d1c9137bcdb2b0a102df1346a0b2945c6fccd1679c/600.jpg" />Floating Fathers in Your Water Our Water exhibition, U10 Art Space Belgrade, RS. Photo: Deep Time Agency Floating Fathers This work was developed in collaboration with Wouter Osterholt within Deep Time Agency.&nbsp; Thanks to Katharina Grün, Hanna Weber, Daniel Vollmer (Delphi_space), Sanda Kalebić, Jana Jovašević, Maša Obradović (U10 Artspace) and Doris Götz (BBK wood workshop Berlin) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (2024) Installation, wood carving, performance in public spaceDeep Time Agency has been selected as one of the participating artists in the Your Water Our Water exhibition cycle, taking place throughout 2024 in three art spaces along the Danube river. For the project, Deep Time Agency has been concerned with the critical rethinking of objects used in the “renaturalisation” of the Danube river, “making-up” for the river’s canalisation practice that was orchestrated in order to make the waterway fit for shipping and hydro-energy production in the 19th century. During the process, Deep Time Agency became especially interested in the idea of using so-called “Raubäume;’’ dead trees that are artificially introduced to the riverbed to give the riverbed a primeval look. Their project merged the industrial “founding fathers” of the modern Danube with the material entity of the Raubäume, transforming them into “floating fathers.” The exhibition, on view in the three exhibition venues, showed several smaller maquette prototypes that formed the basis for a larger sculpture in public space, that was brought back to the Danube river during a performance in Belgrade, held in December 2024.During the performance at U10 Art Space, Deep Time Agency took the public on a guided tour through the city centre of Belgrade and down to the Danube river, accompanied by a larger scale model of one of their floating fathers: István Széchenyi&nbsp; (1791–1860). During the walk, the public acquired insights into the history of the Danube river, learning more about its construction history. The project, that is also on show at the exhibition, critically commemorates industrialists, engineers, and statesmen that played an important role in the cultivation and canalisation of the Danube river. While the taming of the river was seen as a heroic deed just hundred years ago, nowadays we face the direct and indirect consequences of these historical figures’ actions, and many ecological projects concerned with “re-wildering” the Danube are currently under way. With their project, DTA thinks about the role of the sculptures of the historical statesmen in these practices, reuniting them with the contemporary river in new and exciting ways. <img width="5073" height="3425" width_o="5073" height_o="3425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ffd326a1a7ec764c3e540daf0a96209195a2e2c548e0565817cfdd022340589/DSC05207.jpg" data-mid="222892520" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ffd326a1a7ec764c3e540daf0a96209195a2e2c548e0565817cfdd022340589/DSC05207.jpg" />Floating Fathers in Your Water Our Water exhibition, U10 Art Space Belgrade, RS. Photo: Deep Time Agency <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0ac60f6d586d9bdf4afd0200e09250b5e6ea50654bffdba6c4216f84aa77d6c/FFB02.jpg" data-mid="222982306" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0ac60f6d586d9bdf4afd0200e09250b5e6ea50654bffdba6c4216f84aa77d6c/FFB02.jpg" />Floating Fathers in Your Water Our Water exhibition, U10 Art Space Belgrade, RS. Photo: Deep Time Agency <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65de7b7c6f180554f89ab4a7eed21e92d2cfb33819e787797d556dc91930a855/FF04.jpg" data-mid="222982312" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65de7b7c6f180554f89ab4a7eed21e92d2cfb33819e787797d556dc91930a855/FF04.jpg" />Floating Fathers in Your Water Our Water exhibition, DELPHI Art Space Freiburg im Breisgau, DE. Photo: DELPHI Art Space. <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/375f2d0605b127a257b59795d04a6ff2823aae68bf5cea414bc1f02fefbdf01d/FF05.jpg" data-mid="222982331" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/375f2d0605b127a257b59795d04a6ff2823aae68bf5cea414bc1f02fefbdf01d/FF05.jpg" />Floating Fathers in Your Water Our Water exhibition, DELPHI Art Space Freiburg im Breisgau, DE. Photo: DELPHI Art Space. <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab69f2154e139becd67c914689550b651f81a3e8176c62f2965b7b84a5019a22/FF15.jpg" data-mid="222982340" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab69f2154e139becd67c914689550b651f81a3e8176c62f2965b7b84a5019a22/FF15.jpg" />Floating Fathers in Your Water Our Water exhibition, DELPHI Art Space Freiburg im Breisgau, DE. Photo: DELPHI Art Space. <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81a415adfa47848f7bbc9e2f318b6ac10353d68352597182d91abd162052b250/FF03.jpg" data-mid="222982342" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81a415adfa47848f7bbc9e2f318b6ac10353d68352597182d91abd162052b250/FF03.jpg" />Floating Fathers in Your Water Our Water exhibition, DELPHI Art Space Freiburg im Breisgau, DE. Photo: DELPHI Art Space. <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/556cc6e84d0ec07e1343342c956d8506ad9cd18225def6a5ae25617fd3bee074/01.jpg" data-mid="222882293" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/556cc6e84d0ec07e1343342c956d8506ad9cd18225def6a5ae25617fd3bee074/01.jpg" /> Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Sanda Kalebić. <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d01527f0e4632a2aa5811bc6874c4e3ba16f0893edc6732125f1df0e2e0ac795/02.jpg" data-mid="222882296" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d01527f0e4632a2aa5811bc6874c4e3ba16f0893edc6732125f1df0e2e0ac795/02.jpg" /> Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Sanda Kalebić. &nbsp; <img width="2500" height="1705" width_o="2500" height_o="1705" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f13e8f339a54e3354678d3b402085ebf238265031970888e7f38ce9084d9fbe/03.jpg" data-mid="222882311" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f13e8f339a54e3354678d3b402085ebf238265031970888e7f38ce9084d9fbe/03.jpg" /> Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Sanda Kalebić. <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99bea051ca9fb088687dddc9b1f9851c5818661322016e3afc5ac08d655d133d/04.jpg" data-mid="222882313" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99bea051ca9fb088687dddc9b1f9851c5818661322016e3afc5ac08d655d133d/04.jpg" />Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Sanda Kalebić. <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4fd5e4c380f42b264bb67a601651466b9dbd67e06df8acdc9effb2887738095/05.jpg" data-mid="222882256" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4fd5e4c380f42b264bb67a601651466b9dbd67e06df8acdc9effb2887738095/05.jpg" /> Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Sanda Kalebić. <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1775c3a0a7d2e62cc48542f0f90ca0af8d04627602e68cd0b28b7e800927333/06.jpg" data-mid="222882324" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1775c3a0a7d2e62cc48542f0f90ca0af8d04627602e68cd0b28b7e800927333/06.jpg" />Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo:&nbsp;Nina Ivanović <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/204a7e93b1b01ebe10e49c2f0e88a5533911b92c65a6cae6df6025fa32f7637f/09.jpg" data-mid="222882349" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/204a7e93b1b01ebe10e49c2f0e88a5533911b92c65a6cae6df6025fa32f7637f/09.jpg" /> Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Nina Ivanović <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/154d1f17d0e92b5b54f14036ff12a6ed8b0450017b4a89c2d5918101646aa84c/08.jpg" data-mid="222882416" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/154d1f17d0e92b5b54f14036ff12a6ed8b0450017b4a89c2d5918101646aa84c/08.jpg" /> Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Nina Ivanović <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb73b8e2ffc2c315e3678827cdf358d359c4cc05034c7dc0b6267b299e8c51de/07a.jpg" data-mid="222882455" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb73b8e2ffc2c315e3678827cdf358d359c4cc05034c7dc0b6267b299e8c51de/07a.jpg" />Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Nina Ivanović<img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b5f227c890a1fe331230815c855d8448549442012015ab02c59091e81655b38/07.jpg" data-mid="222882449" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b5f227c890a1fe331230815c855d8448549442012015ab02c59091e81655b38/07.jpg" />Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Nina Ivanović <img width="2500" height="1673" width_o="2500" height_o="1673" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9878898aa6c5c7ef4de4982e994ac81f741c795546c9a1ec4cedb2c3462bebc/09a.jpg" data-mid="222882466" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9878898aa6c5c7ef4de4982e994ac81f741c795546c9a1ec4cedb2c3462bebc/09a.jpg" />Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Wouter Osterholt.<img width="2500" height="1666" width_o="2500" height_o="1666" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a691fd0d5b33a27dc7ba46d023ca481c9506120d7cf86f2eb775dde4607af02/011.jpg" data-mid="222882482" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a691fd0d5b33a27dc7ba46d023ca481c9506120d7cf86f2eb775dde4607af02/011.jpg" />Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Nina Ivanović<img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bafd256b40576892b76840bba9ab4a16772e6e8a0956afd1ab378a9090776a45/011a.jpg" data-mid="222882524" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bafd256b40576892b76840bba9ab4a16772e6e8a0956afd1ab378a9090776a45/011a.jpg" /> Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Nina Ivanović<img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75bfd9195bd1a39c2e9b9c6e1806072b37d47d167b0a1707d70a5d6056f9ddbe/012.jpg" data-mid="222882485" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75bfd9195bd1a39c2e9b9c6e1806072b37d47d167b0a1707d70a5d6056f9ddbe/012.jpg" />Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Nina Ivanović <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/267bebd4d437725ef2bca871206e46b675f1236df37747b185a10e06e0aa4d88/012a.jpg" data-mid="222882518" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/267bebd4d437725ef2bca871206e46b675f1236df37747b185a10e06e0aa4d88/012a.jpg" />Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Nina Ivanović<img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8ae88029ba2cabd44b12e814ecb2979a3e374779082192157244380d454e4aa/013.jpg" data-mid="222882520" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8ae88029ba2cabd44b12e814ecb2979a3e374779082192157244380d454e4aa/013.jpg" />Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Nina Ivanović <img width="2500" height="1666" width_o="2500" height_o="1666" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e8a3e92f33fde50dd4cb1b9a6a745086a36f1863f7da176750258315835de2d/014.jpg" data-mid="222882521" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e8a3e92f33fde50dd4cb1b9a6a745086a36f1863f7da176750258315835de2d/014.jpg" />Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Nina Ivanović <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f1b683a94795d7969b89eb82676a13495354eb8d1d1a4de9dd6d1a4a1b577a0/111.jpg" data-mid="222882599" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f1b683a94795d7969b89eb82676a13495354eb8d1d1a4de9dd6d1a4a1b577a0/111.jpg" />Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Wouter Osterholt. <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cf1bad2e0f3edbc5ee1e8899106cd6ae9c9995c5ca0381432461bcdd8d875a8/016.jpg" data-mid="222882526" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cf1bad2e0f3edbc5ee1e8899106cd6ae9c9995c5ca0381432461bcdd8d875a8/016.jpg" />Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo: Wouter Osterholt. <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb60d794e028f484f04f7d33ac6f067c8ea2cf8b0d30a3b5e5c5e89b58679bb2/015.jpg" data-mid="222882525" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb60d794e028f484f04f7d33ac6f067c8ea2cf8b0d30a3b5e5c5e89b58679bb2/015.jpg" />Floating Fathers performance, 1st of december 2024 in Belgrade, RS. Photo:&nbsp;Nina Ivanović. https://miriamsentler.com/Shetland-Times-Article Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:50:56 +0000 Miriam Sentler https://miriamsentler.com/Shetland-Times-Article <img width="3345" height="4952" width_o="3345" height_o="4952" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/384452c8a88b233f5a1997c1a171903ca19356efb3785f1bcca7857c8094d170/jpg-ST2529_180725_004_Moving-Energy-Theatre-1.jpg" data-mid="236921502" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/384452c8a88b233f5a1997c1a171903ca19356efb3785f1bcca7857c8094d170/jpg-ST2529_180725_004_Moving-Energy-Theatre-1.jpg" />Article in The Shetland Times, written by Daniel Shailer. Friday, 18th of July 2025. https://miriamsentler.com/The-Moving-Energy-Theatre Sat, 05 Jul 2025 17:31:34 +0000 Miriam Sentler https://miriamsentler.com/The-Moving-Energy-Theatre &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62635916b446c8a3d7259bbd5a1d772ab6c98448932038dc2049c5c60b3bf5ab/tmet6-1.jpeg" data-mid="235433707" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62635916b446c8a3d7259bbd5a1d772ab6c98448932038dc2049c5c60b3bf5ab/tmet6-1.jpeg" />The Moving Energy Theatre, WINDerful Lights Act in Viking Energy Windfarm. Photo: Deep Time Agency &amp; John Coutts. The Moving Energy Theatre This work was developed within Deep Time Agency and in collaboration with curator Anna Tudos in the context of the Shetland Islands, UK Team: Deep Time Agency (Miriam Sentler and Wouter Osterholt) &amp; Anna Tudos, Marcus Nicolson (assistance), John Coutts (photography), Daniel Shailer from the Shetland Times (reporting &amp; interviewing)Thanks to Gaada, Shetland Museum &amp; Archives, Brian Smith, the Up Helly Aa Committee, Jon Pulley, Gilly Bridle &amp; Sew Far North, Antonia Thomas, The Shetland Times Research developed during an EARTH scholarship (sponsored by the British Research Council, UK)&nbsp; Sponsored by the Mondriaan Fund, NL <img width="768" height="640" width_o="768" height_o="640" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/811870122e48ebd80ddab7b256192cf5dd98b2685007be75c24658335af0cf86/FDR2yQcWQAQaPnN.png" data-mid="235474389" border="0" data-scale="24" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/811870122e48ebd80ddab7b256192cf5dd98b2685007be75c24658335af0cf86/FDR2yQcWQAQaPnN.png" />. &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="510" height="292" width_o="510" height_o="292" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c52ae5272f8f31b5fed1a7653d762fc90655a1a220557ebc4813c64974366138/Media_861838_smxx-510x292.png" data-mid="236220623" border="0" data-scale="35" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/510/i/c52ae5272f8f31b5fed1a7653d762fc90655a1a220557ebc4813c64974366138/Media_861838_smxx-510x292.png" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (2025) Performative Intervention, Archival Reenactment, Analogue and Digital Photography, Publication (forthcoming) Shetland is a Scottish archipelago that lies approximately 480 kilometres north of Edinburgh and 320 kilometres west of Bergen, on the crossroads between Norway, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands. Shetland houses Sullom Voe, one of the biggest oil terminals in Europe. During peak times, up to 1.5 million barrels of oil enter the archipelago daily from the oil platforms in the North Sea, to be stored in underground containers and shipped to destinations worldwide. The archipelago is also a major player in wind and tidal energy, with Viking Energy installing 103 wind turbines on the Shetland mainland in August 2024 and a variety of tidal energy experiments happening in and around the Yell Sound on the northern islands of Shetland. The ways these industries have changed island life and natural environments throughout history are often discussed, performed, and criticized by members of the Shetland community. An example are the short theatre acts that happen in the framework of the carnivalesque Up Helly Aa festival. A handful of historical acts from between 1972 and 2003 found in the Shetland Archives and the Up Helly Aa Committee Archive reference the energy industry through a critical lens and a specific aesthetic, marked by costumes, props, songs, and so on. The Moving Energy Theatre uses re-enactment and performative intervention to bring back and revive 8 selected energy acts from Shetland’s archives that took place in Shetland’s famous Up Helly Aa festival in the last 50 years. For this purpose costumes and props were recreated and placed back into the industrial environments the acts once spoke about, letting interactions around them unfold spontaneously. In this way, the costumes become tools for contemporary discussion about what roles these energy industries play in the Shetlanders’ lives nowadays. TMET toured the Shetland Islands in June and July 2025. &nbsp; Energy Act #1: Shel(l)tie (1978/2025)“The squad represented the well-known oil firm. Six members were dressed as the character seen on the tv advertisement and the remainder in bright yellow boiler suits with various Shell insignia attached. Cars describing various oil firms had a race with many mishaps.”&nbsp; - News reporter, The Shetland Times, “What the Squads Did and How they Looked Like”, Friday 3 February 1978. <img width="3920" height="2976" width_o="3920" height_o="2976" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/075db3946fdf7ae852423b565438b4bd8dfddadcea4a59e56a4c27aed8f0e677/tmet4.jpeg" data-mid="235433704" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/075db3946fdf7ae852423b565438b4bd8dfddadcea4a59e56a4c27aed8f0e677/tmet4.jpeg" /> Photo: Up Helly Aa Committee Archive. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dfc24073a579d44ca2849c448c000a34026ae581007dd94e92a85b878d6940b/tmet1.jpeg" data-mid="235433699" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0dfc24073a579d44ca2849c448c000a34026ae581007dd94e92a85b878d6940b/tmet1.jpeg" /> The Moving Energy Theatre, Shel(l)tie at Sullom Voe Oil Terminal. Photo: Deep Time Agency <img width="8192" height="5464" width_o="8192" height_o="5464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b65013e55a8bb24dc6d3d289b3712c20160545cde6ddc46b6891c9d2f11b4f14/tmet2.jpeg" data-mid="235433701" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b65013e55a8bb24dc6d3d289b3712c20160545cde6ddc46b6891c9d2f11b4f14/tmet2.jpeg" />The Moving Energy Theatre, Shel(l)tie at Sullom Voe Oil Terminal. Photo: Deep Time Agency &amp; John Coutts. <img width="8192" height="5464" width_o="8192" height_o="5464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59756fbf262e4a1866924616dc9ff5dba5c29a6af3b4adbc336f23c47deac52f/tmet3.jpeg" data-mid="235433703" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59756fbf262e4a1866924616dc9ff5dba5c29a6af3b4adbc336f23c47deac52f/tmet3.jpeg" /> The Moving Energy Theatre, Shel(l)tie at Tank Station Brae. Photo: Deep Time Agency &amp; John Coutts. <img width="5731" height="3876" width_o="5731" height_o="3876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f66e49b18b1591e51556192706f63a98225f110648279279702f38b2ad0cbf6/sheltie1.jpg" data-mid="241721968" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f66e49b18b1591e51556192706f63a98225f110648279279702f38b2ad0cbf6/sheltie1.jpg" />The Moving Energy Theatre, Shel(l)tie in a pub near the oil terminal. Photo: Deep Time Agency &amp; John Coutts. Energy Act #2: WINDerful Lights (1983/2025)“These guizers in Fair Isle jumpers had croft houses, a lighthouse, and a church for heads. Three engineers brought in a windmill and when they got it going the lights in the building came on. But the windmill exploded, plunging the buildings into darkness again.” - News reporter, The Shetland Times, “What the Squads Did and How they Looked Like”, Friday 28th of January 1983. <img width="2400" height="1572" width_o="2400" height_o="1572" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9802cf5f8cb55c3cfad9205fb93b6453fb15190a64cf16bf349b9e195b55cd4c/tmet8.jpeg" data-mid="235433709" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9802cf5f8cb55c3cfad9205fb93b6453fb15190a64cf16bf349b9e195b55cd4c/tmet8.jpeg" />Photo: Up Helly Aa Committee Archive. <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49de8c9f58afde0a136c6aa2be7566de29cc911c45f4c7d10a134aa7cdabf22e/tmet5.jpeg" data-mid="235433706" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49de8c9f58afde0a136c6aa2be7566de29cc911c45f4c7d10a134aa7cdabf22e/tmet5.jpeg" />The Moving Energy Theatre, WINDerful Lights in the Viking Energy Wind Farm. Photo: Deep Time Agency <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29ef310cf0f98170a528a05304e4b467f7ceb59de2fb202cd7bab65c928d57e3/DSC06261.JPG" data-mid="235475397" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29ef310cf0f98170a528a05304e4b467f7ceb59de2fb202cd7bab65c928d57e3/DSC06261.JPG" />The Moving Energy Theatre, WINDerful Lights at the Official Cake Fridge. Photo: Deep Time Agency <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6a47629ef8ec8af2b70104d28ea157bc42ab0428782090d3b05f7279e79cecc/DSC06306.JPG" data-mid="241719116" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6a47629ef8ec8af2b70104d28ea157bc42ab0428782090d3b05f7279e79cecc/DSC06306.JPG" />The Moving Energy Theatre, WINDerful Lights posing with Shetland Ponies at the Official Cake Fridge. Photo: Deep Time Agency Energy Act #3: Sting in the Tail(2003/2025)“The setting is Yell Sound, and the Stingray tidal generator enters the hall accompanied by two scientists to begin a test phase. Once assembled they monitor its performance and Tom Stove and Peter Malcolmson arrive to award the team a prize for their work. Happy with their success the scientists are unaware of two hideous sea creatures called aquaphibians observing the generator. These scary sea creatures armed with spectacular guns have only one problem- if they stay out of the water for long, they begin to lose the use of their legs and are unable to walk in a straight line. With the flick of a fin, they signal the rest to attack and with a bang the aquaphibians burst in and chase the councillor and scientist away. They then perform a victory dance on the generator (…) - News reporter, The Shetland Times, “What the Squads Did and How they Looked Like”, Friday 31st of January 2003. <img width="4385" height="2950" width_o="4385" height_o="2950" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc3919a6c4f03e0ddb0fdf293b5696202c3a0d4e76d41c5fc9144f7901aaa964/tmet12.jpg" data-mid="235433732" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc3919a6c4f03e0ddb0fdf293b5696202c3a0d4e76d41c5fc9144f7901aaa964/tmet12.jpg" />Photo: Up Helly Aa Committee Archive. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76eacd40ab0c75e1a3cdd6ed83ef410e133bffd93f5fde1d5d2527286a23d847/DSC06190.JPG" data-mid="241723643" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76eacd40ab0c75e1a3cdd6ed83ef410e133bffd93f5fde1d5d2527286a23d847/DSC06190.JPG" />The Moving Energy Theatre, Sting in the Tail at the Yell to Unst Ferry Terminal. Photo: Deep Time Agency <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66504f784ce4bfcbe106ea6e85203dca85506bc61fc2ac25e7a93733f89f32f9/tmet9.jpeg" data-mid="235433710" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66504f784ce4bfcbe106ea6e85203dca85506bc61fc2ac25e7a93733f89f32f9/tmet9.jpeg" /> The Moving Energy Theatre, Sting in the Tail on the Yell to Unst Ferry.&nbsp;Photo: Deep Time Agency&nbsp; <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14690343da183cccd6f093f641c239eaf97404489c7b1d1bdc9c17641b2f6013/tmet10.jpeg" data-mid="235433711" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14690343da183cccd6f093f641c239eaf97404489c7b1d1bdc9c17641b2f6013/tmet10.jpeg" />The Moving Energy Theatre, Sting in the Tail on the Yell to Unst Ferry. Photo: Deep Time Agency <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba83da5cbe8a5b7048c92205b35bd499eff2a4d8089901d9697590af22eba089/DSC06143.JPG" data-mid="241722789" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba83da5cbe8a5b7048c92205b35bd499eff2a4d8089901d9697590af22eba089/DSC06143.JPG" />The Moving Energy Theatre, Sting in the Tail on the Yell to Unst Ferry. Photo: Deep Time Agency Energy Act #4: Da Freefield Arabs(1983/2025)Unknown (news reporter missed the act) - News reporter, The Shetland Times, “What the Squads Did and How they Looked Like”, Friday 28th of January 1983. <img width="2400" height="1622" width_o="2400" height_o="1622" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f69230c8f1cdaccc0a7b8b7dcafdff8675a2d8ef25bd32d8066cc703fed22d0/tmet16.jpeg" data-mid="235433735" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f69230c8f1cdaccc0a7b8b7dcafdff8675a2d8ef25bd32d8066cc703fed22d0/tmet16.jpeg" /> Photo: Up Helly Aa Committee Archive. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8a555743e7f5811b90223e27910b012c76e9440b7dbbb54fa4a528952557dbe/tmet13.jpeg" data-mid="235433730" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8a555743e7f5811b90223e27910b012c76e9440b7dbbb54fa4a528952557dbe/tmet13.jpeg" /> The Moving Energy Theatre, Da Freefield Arabs in Freefield, Lerwick. Photo: Deep Time Agency&nbsp; <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe94c9bb8ac9684e4ed1af2bb0d676c553495fce46771ac10495026c85a8d015/camel1.jpg" data-mid="241724423" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe94c9bb8ac9684e4ed1af2bb0d676c553495fce46771ac10495026c85a8d015/camel1.jpg" /> The Moving Energy Theatre, Da Freefield Arabs in Freefield, Lerwick. Photo: Deep Time Agency <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/097c0860f23f54ff96c30fe0e835a20aa57745131462994eccba9819c3892b7d/camel3.jpg" data-mid="241729583" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/097c0860f23f54ff96c30fe0e835a20aa57745131462994eccba9819c3892b7d/camel3.jpg" /> The Moving Energy Theatre, Da Freefield Arabs in Freefield, Lerwick. Photo: Deep Time Agency <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfb4e37a8fb5a62c8df3cf960f1641973b031055cb592cb54810ee7d49046fa6/DSC06661.JPG" data-mid="241719177" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cfb4e37a8fb5a62c8df3cf960f1641973b031055cb592cb54810ee7d49046fa6/DSC06661.JPG" />The Moving Energy Theatre, Da Freefield Arabs in Freefield, Lerwick. Photo: Deep Time Agency Energy Act #5: Dales Voe Raiders(1983/2025)“An up-to-date version of the Viking theme, modern-day raiders, dressed in blue thermal wear, red kirtles, gold cloaks and adorned with safety helmets, spanners and welding torches, dragging an oil rig instead of a galley descend on Dales Voe to the tune of “The Norseman’s Home” followed by a lusty rendering of: “Gae hame wi de hame Ertie (go home, go home Ertie) Tae come tae Dales Voe doos no blate (to come to Dales Voe you aren’t shy) Fir we want wir Voe keepit bonny (because we want our Voe to be beautiful) No coarse lik da back o’ a skate” (not horrible like the back of a skate)” - News reporter, The Shetland Times, “What the Squads Did and How they Looked Like”, Friday 27th of January 1984. <img width="3780" height="2616" width_o="3780" height_o="2616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fc365cf42cfb9c271c0073075c840fbfe96bba631b5780521f2259447f85b0b/tmet20.jpg" data-mid="235433740" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fc365cf42cfb9c271c0073075c840fbfe96bba631b5780521f2259447f85b0b/tmet20.jpg" /> Photo: The Up Helly Aa Committee Archive. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4bc7a78a6bccad236db4adf0474ef240e0b0786fc336b6bac8e9e71a2d160f59/tmet17.jpeg" data-mid="235433736" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4bc7a78a6bccad236db4adf0474ef240e0b0786fc336b6bac8e9e71a2d160f59/tmet17.jpeg" />The Moving Energy Theatre, Dales Voe Raiders at Dales Voe. Photo: Deep Time Agency&nbsp; <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4c9da0dc8c15652798c3ba0987899b023b033f87049352548280c5282dea988/tmet18.jpeg" data-mid="235433737" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b4c9da0dc8c15652798c3ba0987899b023b033f87049352548280c5282dea988/tmet18.jpeg" />The Moving Energy Theatre, Dales Voe Raiders at Dales Voe. Photo: Deep Time Agency <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6d5babd6fd97422e325ecc52047f7d3435d09528130b5a2b2b66b41864d2890/tmet19.jpeg" data-mid="235433738" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6d5babd6fd97422e325ecc52047f7d3435d09528130b5a2b2b66b41864d2890/tmet19.jpeg" />The Moving Energy Theatre, Dales Voe Raiders at Dales Voe. Photo: Deep Time Agency &nbsp; Energy Act #6: BP Pigs(1979/2025)“Recent pipeline testing by the oil industry using Pipeline Inspection Gadgets (PIGs) was used by the squad to illustrate the problems when a pig gets stuck in the pipeline. Twelve members were dressed in pig costume complete with large head and snout. Two were dressed as oil technicians, who, after failing to persuade the pig through the pipeline, had to call for assistance which came in the form of the Muppet pig – Miss Piggy – who danced seductively before the entrenched pig who immediately shook himself free and gave chase to miss Piggy followed by the remainder of the pigs and two confused boffins.” - News reporter, The Shetland Times, “What the Squads Did and How they Looked Like”, Friday 2nd of February 1979. <img width="3345" height="2344" width_o="3345" height_o="2344" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f710c6ce6a526e52f9e0ad6ee01f702055aeb62e71c21f6d10f84b2424331e0b/tmet25.jpg" data-mid="235433745" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f710c6ce6a526e52f9e0ad6ee01f702055aeb62e71c21f6d10f84b2424331e0b/tmet25.jpg" />Photo: The Up Helly Aa Committee Archive. <img width="5549" height="3699" width_o="5549" height_o="3699" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/376b2ce50baef6f6c138c8c5b648ffa05069ba112becec9f2c4788d94cf50941/DSC06088.jpg" data-mid="235476194" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/376b2ce50baef6f6c138c8c5b648ffa05069ba112becec9f2c4788d94cf50941/DSC06088.jpg" />The Moving Energy Theatre, BP Pigs next to the Brent Pipeline, Firth. Photo: Deep Time Agency <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5197d38ac9d6e5585a255689da227489d09fd743448c8eac51b679aaac81b663/DSC06332.JPG" data-mid="235476195" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5197d38ac9d6e5585a255689da227489d09fd743448c8eac51b679aaac81b663/DSC06332.JPG" /> The Moving Energy Theatre, BP Pigs in a Housing Estate provided for Oil workers, Firth. Photo: Deep Time Agency&nbsp; <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e009ec1bb574beaf185da8e24c98cb673f88c5a5240e1912233d7c9848f3ca5e/tmet23.jpeg" data-mid="235433744" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e009ec1bb574beaf185da8e24c98cb673f88c5a5240e1912233d7c9848f3ca5e/tmet23.jpeg" />The Moving Energy Theatre, BP Pigs in a Housing Estate provided for Oil workers, Firth. Photo: Deep Time Agency <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8cccd9b9209fed8e7b062c2d5b670ad5776ea15e555e17732e57bcad623b191f/tmet22.jpeg" data-mid="235433741" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8cccd9b9209fed8e7b062c2d5b670ad5776ea15e555e17732e57bcad623b191f/tmet22.jpeg" />The Moving Energy Theatre, BP Pigs in a Housing Estate provided for Oil workers, Firth. Photo: Deep Time Agency&nbsp; Energy Act #7: Ness Monstrosities(1976/2025)“A reference to both the recent furore about the Loch Ness monster and about the proposals to put oil in underground caverns on Calback Ness, this squad appeared as a team of monsters each bearing the legend “Loch Ness Migrants – Calback Ness Caverns Dweller.” Members wore long black necks topped by dragon type heads in green and yellow, with black bodies and yellow spots. Fins and flippers completed the suit.” - News reporter, The Shetland Times, “What the Squads Did and How they Looked Like”, Friday 30th of January 1976. <img width="3173" height="2393" width_o="3173" height_o="2393" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c54d846e8b035355fb5e1399034e7b949f4bc3348f6993ccc04019dd9d5b5a94/tmet29.jpg" data-mid="235433750" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c54d846e8b035355fb5e1399034e7b949f4bc3348f6993ccc04019dd9d5b5a94/tmet29.jpg" /> Photo: The Up Helly Aa Committee Archive. <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bba4287c478013631bb2d466fc36fd8af85d0d1c238a9fe5964856a6c462ab0c/tmet26.jpeg" data-mid="235433746" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bba4287c478013631bb2d466fc36fd8af85d0d1c238a9fe5964856a6c462ab0c/tmet26.jpeg" />The Moving Energy Theatre, Ness Monstrosities in a cave in Burra. Photo: Deep Time Agency &amp; John Coutts <img width="8192" height="5464" width_o="8192" height_o="5464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/744ac018594b9c4eb320674260a4223ad68cc716251cbf0f1236562dc4caa78b/1Z5A2739.jpg" data-mid="235476281" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/744ac018594b9c4eb320674260a4223ad68cc716251cbf0f1236562dc4caa78b/1Z5A2739.jpg" /> The Moving Energy Theatre, Ness Monstrosities in a cave in Burra. Photo: Deep Time Agency &amp; John Coutts<img width="8192" height="5464" width_o="8192" height_o="5464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abcaeb74a10e471b74509dfb79632b304f9322a5fb3ba9223a215551cf927f5a/6O4A3648.JPG" data-mid="235476282" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abcaeb74a10e471b74509dfb79632b304f9322a5fb3ba9223a215551cf927f5a/6O4A3648.JPG" />The Moving Energy Theatre, Ness Monstrosities in Hamnavoe, Burra. Photo: Deep Time Agency &amp; John Coutts <img width="8192" height="5464" width_o="8192" height_o="5464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b0cf4e621f2917717647d445c2e398fb483077c703f67ab85ebd84e01e84082/tmet27.jpeg" data-mid="235433747" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b0cf4e621f2917717647d445c2e398fb483077c703f67ab85ebd84e01e84082/tmet27.jpeg" /> The Moving Energy Theatre, Ness Monstrosities in Hamnavoe, Burra. Photo: Deep Time Agency &amp; John Coutts Energy Act #8: Small Fry in Oil(1973/2025)“A reference to an exchange between two local businessmen, this act hinged on the words of a verse sung to the tune of “The Norsemen’s Home.” The story goes that, asked how his business was faring, a local businessman replied: “I’m in oil now.” “Ah yes” replied his acquaintance. “But so are sardines, and they’re just small fry.” The squat were dressed as sardines – with fibreglass heads – and they circled the hall singing the wittily constructed verse with gusto.” - News reporter, The Shetland Times, “What the Squads Did and How they Looked Like”, Friday 2nd of February 1973. <img width="4256" height="2480" width_o="4256" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f294768a8cec6f778a4be62173d3f12bdcc1ac7682be1c8acdf97babe25a458b/tmet34.jpeg" data-mid="235433755" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f294768a8cec6f778a4be62173d3f12bdcc1ac7682be1c8acdf97babe25a458b/tmet34.jpeg" /> Photo: The Up Helly Aa Committee Archive. <img width="8192" height="5464" width_o="8192" height_o="5464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58ba1ea64141e8b7965189b0c3bd767ef2dfea3b573ca951eddce85f079d60e9/tmet30.jpg" data-mid="235433797" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58ba1ea64141e8b7965189b0c3bd767ef2dfea3b573ca951eddce85f079d60e9/tmet30.jpg" /> The Moving Energy Theatre, Small Fry in Oil on the Fish Market in Scalloway. Photo: Deep Time Agency &amp; John Coutts <img width="8192" height="5464" width_o="8192" height_o="5464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b95fc18e758f8cc4dab9f1b2c0a4abfd40be73d7c13d087f5ddc69048ebb3df/tmet31.jpg" data-mid="235433751" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b95fc18e758f8cc4dab9f1b2c0a4abfd40be73d7c13d087f5ddc69048ebb3df/tmet31.jpg" /> The Moving Energy Theatre, Small Fry in Oil in Scalloway. Photo: Deep Time Agency &amp; John Coutts <img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ef200254835b6401a067ba368b2d8998010a000f63edf9bf287af67e5f95e8c/tmet32.jpeg" data-mid="235433752" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ef200254835b6401a067ba368b2d8998010a000f63edf9bf287af67e5f95e8c/tmet32.jpeg" />The Moving Energy Theatre, Small Fry in Oil in Scalloway. Photo: Deep Time Agency &amp; John Coutts <img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94bbbf1970255d3adda522e526703d6b9e8535effb9e4630df972171572aff27/fish1.jpg" data-mid="241719266" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94bbbf1970255d3adda522e526703d6b9e8535effb9e4630df972171572aff27/fish1.jpg" /> The Moving Energy Theatre, Small Fry in Oil in Scalloway. Photo: Deep Time Agency &amp; John Coutts <img width="3345" height="4952" width_o="3345" height_o="4952" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59e89af9a805aa991f46da64be0b7b173b07a556cd306da1470d24f8e4d42526/jpg-ST2529_180725_004_Moving-Energy-Theatre.jpg" data-mid="236174791" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59e89af9a805aa991f46da64be0b7b173b07a556cd306da1470d24f8e4d42526/jpg-ST2529_180725_004_Moving-Energy-Theatre.jpg" /> Newspaper article in The Shetland Times, 18th of July 2025. https://miriamsentler.com/The-Mythical-Zone Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:36:57 +0000 Miriam Sentler https://miriamsentler.com/The-Mythical-Zone <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58dedd8ed38b6077d14be581febf6de1d11736edf1caab9a2a24c759217a76d7/111.jpg" data-mid="185487730" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58dedd8ed38b6077d14be581febf6de1d11736edf1caab9a2a24c759217a76d7/111.jpg" /> Sign ship-camel, next to the Afrikahaven close to Ruigoord, port of Amsterdam, june 2023. The Mythical Zone This work was commissioned by curator Imke Ruigrok (Re-Nature Festival) in the context of 100 years Ruigoord. It was shown in public space during the group exhibition “Oasis of Wonder.” A part of the research for this work was carried out in the harbour of Amsterdam during the FieldART residency in 2022, organised by Sonic Acts, ASCA, and NICA (Jeff Diamanti and Fred Carter). Speakers: Hans Plomp, Frans Rodenburg, Jinny Thielsch, Imke Ruigrok, Arie Vonk, Masja Ottenheim-Plomp, Sander Ivo van Driel. Mastering: Mozes Meijer R.I.P. Hans Plomp (1944-2024) ︎︎︎Download the sound walk here (Dutch only) ︎Buy the FieldARTS docket bundling the research of this work in the harbour of Amsterdam here (English) <img width="166" height="176" width_o="166" height_o="176" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5b5c4d87281a51d070d9d2b59985125b729608e5cf79f11f26d7db129c09a1e/nieuwsbrief_logo.png" data-mid="185489310" border="0" data-scale="14" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/166/i/a5b5c4d87281a51d070d9d2b59985125b729608e5cf79f11f26d7db129c09a1e/nieuwsbrief_logo.png" />&nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="419" height="131" width_o="419" height_o="131" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/12747908f656ec1ae3bf8e01afaad4275e0630cbb9ad0b82b4f6219679bcee25/Ruigoordlogo.png" data-mid="185490036" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/419/i/12747908f656ec1ae3bf8e01afaad4275e0630cbb9ad0b82b4f6219679bcee25/Ruigoordlogo.png" /> The project is generously funded by Mondriaanfonds (Artist Basic Grant) and Stichting 100 jaar Ruigoord, Amsterdam, NL&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (2023) Geo-located audio walk. Audio tour available for download in ECHOES app (ca 25 minutes), 6 aluminium and steel signs with drawing prints (ca. 2200mm x Ø600mm). Developed around the edges of the former island Ruigoord in the Amsterdam harbour. The Mythical Zone (2023) is a site-specific project in which the public is invited to participate in an audio walk around the edges of the former island of Ruigoord. The work treats the area as a harbour for stranded inventions, a place where time stands still and where public reflection on the changeability of the industrial landscape is possible. During the walk, the visitor is invited to enter six mythical audio zones, in which the boundaries between mythology and technology are being explored. In these sound bubbles they learn about various historical inventions that characterize the landscape. The work is inspired by the many fantastical stories that characterise Ruigoord: strange objects developed by artists and activists in its history, but also by the invisible, industrial zones that span over the village: the explosion zone (plofzone) of fuels stored by the oil industry, the shadows of the windmills, the industrial smells and sounds in the harbour area. The six stories bear witness to fantastic and sometimes tragic visions of Ruigoord and were developed with the help of inhabitants, ecologists and (hobby) historians. Walking along the edges of the former island, the public can listen to a description of the duck-decoy (17th century), the ship-camel (18th century), the air-bus (1970s), the sand-flood (1970s), the tower of Babel (early 2000s) and the sea-lock (current and future). The mythical zone functions as a first work in a long-term research project, exploring the relationship between different times, the journey of fossil fuels and the role of speculation and myth in the industrial port area of Amsterdam. <img width="3000" height="1980" width_o="3000" height_o="1980" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2423a2c984d555d98b7b9e95f3ac665b37706789fb154fc34cff8f560b45dddf/112.jpg" data-mid="185489042" border="0" data-scale="93" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2423a2c984d555d98b7b9e95f3ac665b37706789fb154fc34cff8f560b45dddf/112.jpg" /> Sign duck-decoy, audio tour around the former island of Ruigoord, june 2023. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/edfa655db8f25efae8d6af597fd90a0aff1ea2fc8c04be5d58f7a82e2adb0186/114.jpg" data-mid="185489076" border="0" data-scale="93" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/edfa655db8f25efae8d6af597fd90a0aff1ea2fc8c04be5d58f7a82e2adb0186/114.jpg" /> Sign air-bus, audio tour around the former island of Ruigoord, june 2023. &nbsp;<img width="1671" height="652" width_o="1671" height_o="652" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/014319646726a502483baf5684761e617f069ac90fdd0841e8c6215a795418f8/11.gif" data-mid="222982449" border="0" data-scale="93" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/014319646726a502483baf5684761e617f069ac90fdd0841e8c6215a795418f8/11.gif" /> Map of the sound walk in Echoes app &amp; Google Earth screenshot, july 2023. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c3f8b989a0f1ef3ff3c2b686b7ca5596e77d632f24bc234e291cfb6fa4050c1/113.jpg" data-mid="185489083" border="0" data-scale="93" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c3f8b989a0f1ef3ff3c2b686b7ca5596e77d632f24bc234e291cfb6fa4050c1/113.jpg" /> Sign tower of Babel, audio tour around the former island of Ruigoord, june 2023. https://miriamsentler.com/The-Forest-Underground Wed, 09 Nov 2022 12:37:48 +0000 Miriam Sentler https://miriamsentler.com/The-Forest-Underground &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="4000" height="2653" width_o="4000" height_o="2653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3dc8e64179870dad0e49e33789e05ca52512776d7a9d675e93b4a1cbca717bba/1e.jpg" data-mid="158478291" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3dc8e64179870dad0e49e33789e05ca52512776d7a9d675e93b4a1cbca717bba/1e.jpg" /> The Forest Underground at Archive Event VI: Miriam Sentler - The Chase, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL). Copyright: Miriam Sentler/ LNDW Studio. The Forest Underground This work was developed during a residency at Jester (formerly CIAP/FLACC) and the Emile van Dorenmuseum in Genk (BE)&nbsp; Team: Drake Stoughton (composition, concept), Archie Metaalbewerking Amsterdam (metal construction), Alicja Melzacka (support &amp; organisation), Justin Bennett (audio recording in the mines and technical support). Collection: Museum het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard, NL &nbsp; <img src="data:image/png;base64,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">.&nbsp; The making process of The Forest Underground is generously supported by the O&amp;O grant of CBK Rotterdam. ︎ Listen to a sound sample on soundcloud &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ︎ Read an interview about the work (2022-ongoing) Audio installation, in collaboration with composer Drake Stoughton (1995, US/NL) The Forest Underground starts from the sounds of the “underground forest” of the coal mines of Limburg and is developed in the context of Genk, one of the largest coal towns in Belgium. In the mining industry, trees, plants, and animals were treated as industrial resources. They were utilized to find coal, a fossil fuel that itself originates from ancient ecosystems and plant remains. However, that these natural entities also had material agency was for the miners of the last century self-evident. In the mines, the voices of birds, crickets and trees were heard on a daily basis, accompanying the hard work of the miners. Exemplary, the song of the cricket, which was brought into the mines along with the tree logs used in the construction of mine shafts, was audible even deep under the earth. The Scots pine was not selected for the support of the mine galleries because it was so sturdy, but because the wood cracked or “spoke” before it broke. The voice of the canary accompanied the long working days, and when it fell silent, it was time to run. The device specially made for The Forest Underground is inspired by a bird respirator from the 19th century, made to revive canaries that fainted due to carbon monoxide poisoning. During a performance, the container brought the sounds of the underground forest back to the old, Limburgian mines. The sound recording was played and re-recorded in the old mines of C-Mine in Belgium, enabling the architecture of the mines to participate in the soundscape of the work. <img width="5500" height="3667" width_o="5500" height_o="3667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68f043abfbc860a598826424115e7d06fce28c59e585b2b8efe17dffb27e6fe5/Looiersgracht60_29-10_2022_LNDWstudio_0007-1.jpg" data-mid="167569302" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68f043abfbc860a598826424115e7d06fce28c59e585b2b8efe17dffb27e6fe5/Looiersgracht60_29-10_2022_LNDWstudio_0007-1.jpg" />The Forest Underground at Archive Event VI: Miriam Sentler - The Chase, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL). Copyright: Miriam Sentler/ LNDW Studio. <img width="4000" height="3839" width_o="4000" height_o="3839" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27759e65e24c2b014a0f0a4148e585009bffd8e15183efe97c2c0f6a9dd3c7f3/na.jpg" data-mid="158479568" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27759e65e24c2b014a0f0a4148e585009bffd8e15183efe97c2c0f6a9dd3c7f3/na.jpg" /> The Forest Underground at Archive Event VI: Miriam Sentler - The Chase, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL). Copyright: Miriam Sentler/ LNDW Studio. <img width="2000" height="1282" width_o="2000" height_o="1282" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4123fddb691d2f5ca3983d4ac065bbb3a1b574fc12d6bdb01c94264b55068b1d/z10.jpg" data-mid="222982518" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4123fddb691d2f5ca3983d4ac065bbb3a1b574fc12d6bdb01c94264b55068b1d/z10.jpg" /> The Forest Underground in solo exhibition Mining Myths, Museum het Nieuwe Domein Sittard (NL) 2024. Photo: Miriam Sentler. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d04f32127ba8f3828a727aab427bdbf78378c2cea2f5b7a847a35f65022fd2f/04.JPG" data-mid="161675886" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d04f32127ba8f3828a727aab427bdbf78378c2cea2f5b7a847a35f65022fd2f/04.JPG" /> Performance (Bringing) The Forest Underground in C-Mine, former coal mine, Genk (BE). <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ede7757c908c42a15fdd15eb1818bbceac7928cadb50b941029f375f28ed8031/01.JPG" data-mid="161675881" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ede7757c908c42a15fdd15eb1818bbceac7928cadb50b941029f375f28ed8031/01.JPG" /> Performance (Bringing) The Forest Underground in C-Mine, former coal mine, Genk (BE). <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bee932456f121391a83ab4dafd5e95fe9d3eb8def3da10686211ab588467b8d/02.JPG" data-mid="161675882" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bee932456f121391a83ab4dafd5e95fe9d3eb8def3da10686211ab588467b8d/02.JPG" /> Performance (Bringing) The Forest Underground in C-Mine, former coal mine, Genk (BE). <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3863ce3aa3a5a499a01885fff38609abd899c7b8ba5794b13f0dd6f0fe1444d8/05.JPG" data-mid="161675887" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3863ce3aa3a5a499a01885fff38609abd899c7b8ba5794b13f0dd6f0fe1444d8/05.JPG" /> Performance (Bringing) The Forest Underground in C-Mine, former coal mine, Genk (BE). <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57e5a70e37c29cdaa53203900dad9fd0e94998565a9faa3389b2761ec8cd2c71/06.JPG" data-mid="161675889" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57e5a70e37c29cdaa53203900dad9fd0e94998565a9faa3389b2761ec8cd2c71/06.JPG" /> Performance (Bringing) The Forest Underground in C-Mine, former coal mine, Genk (BE). https://miriamsentler.com/Fossil-Fuel-Mnemosyne Fri, 20 May 2022 18:56:49 +0000 Miriam Sentler https://miriamsentler.com/Fossil-Fuel-Mnemosyne &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07a125328a4ce4ebf982bda32d76b897b98cff74e4775be3b6845bc04a7e4a5c/radius1.jpg" data-mid="148202984" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07a125328a4ce4ebf982bda32d76b897b98cff74e4775be3b6845bc04a7e4a5c/radius1.jpg" /> Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne at RADIUS Centre for Contemporary Art &amp; Ecology Delft (NL) during&nbsp;Climate of Concern - Burning out in the Age of Fossil Fuel Expressionism, 2022. Permanently on view in the watertower of RADIUS CCA. Photo: Gunnar Meier Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne This work was developed during residencies at USF Verftet (Bergen, Norway) and Knockvologan Studies (Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Scotland) and is permanently on display in the watertower of RADIUS, Centre for Art &amp; Ecology in Delft, NL Thanks to Lotte van Dijk, Silvia van de Kruijs,&nbsp;Marie Ilse Bourlanges, Elena Khurtova, Alix Chauvet, Marcos Kueh, Billie van Katwijk, Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, Sergi Rusca, Johann Gustavsson, Gabija Seiliute. Collection: R. Lekkerkerk/ RADIUS Centre for Contemporary Art &amp; Ecology <img width="768" height="640" width_o="768" height_o="640" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/396662affb46c06b8f19a2353e918b94c2b6ff6dc4f16e6e4af3ef842ba26d62/FDR2yQcWQAQaPnN.png" data-mid="151021416" border="0" data-scale="32" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/396662affb46c06b8f19a2353e918b94c2b6ff6dc4f16e6e4af3ef842ba26d62/FDR2yQcWQAQaPnN.png" />.&nbsp; <img width="283" height="400" width_o="283" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d679ef2f2b75677fa2360b4661c702084265994b88d758b357a6b0a4d1edf1af/stokroos_logo_103-176mm_cmyk-magenta400px.png" data-mid="151021439" border="0" data-scale="19" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/283/i/d679ef2f2b75677fa2360b4661c702084265994b88d758b357a6b0a4d1edf1af/stokroos_logo_103-176mm_cmyk-magenta400px.png" />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="2000" height="1730" width_o="2000" height_o="1730" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea367ede9f927b08912631a695d00a33e77a1cb68bdfcbc7fcd9d704b67a7b19/PBCF_Logo_oranje_RGB.png" data-mid="151021427" border="0" data-scale="32" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea367ede9f927b08912631a695d00a33e77a1cb68bdfcbc7fcd9d704b67a7b19/PBCF_Logo_oranje_RGB.png" />. &nbsp;The project is generously funded by Mondrian Fund, Stichting Stokroos and Prince Bernhard Culture Fund. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (2022) Tapestry, 350 x 175 cm. Jacquard weave, merino wool and cotton. Produced in collaboration with the TextileLab, the professional workplace of the Textielmuseum Tilburg. The worship of Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory, used to begin with a ritual of initiation consisting in first drinking the water of Lethe (forgetfulness) to forget all previous thoughts, and afterwards drinking the water of Mnemosyne, which brought back the memories of what the devotee saw in his descent in the river. Extrapolating the ritual to today’s manufacturing of fossil fuels that have been forming under the sea for thousands of years, many memories of the sea reappear and remind us of the knowledges and lives that are subject to rapid destruction due to the oil industry. Miriam Sentler weaves water and oil myths through time travel and speculative fiction in Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne, a tapestry produced in collaboration with the TextielLab from the Textielmuseum in Tilburg. This work is the result of research carried out over two residencies: one in the United Sardine Factory, Bergen (NO), and another as part of the Knockvologan Studies in the Inner Hebrides (UK), both located in the proximity to oil platforms in the North Sea. Oil has long been attributed with mythical and magical properties. Shark and whale oils were used for weather forecasting, as well as healing ointments for wounds, respiratory issues, and infertility. Nowadays, oil is not exempt of mythification: oil companies use branding techniques to name their facilities after heroes of the Nordic Saga and Poetic Edda. Interested in the various storytelling of scandinavian oil cultures, Sentler presents a rich iconography of characters and symbols that weld oil and myth throughout time. By doing so in a tapestry, the artist references the tradition of commissioning tapestries by the rich and powerful to depict myths and stories with educational purposes and political undertones. In Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne, the artist seeks to review the importance of myth as a tool to challenge capitalistic fossil fuel branding methods and to grasp the industry’s growing influence on the management of Earth’s resources. - Text written by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk &amp; Sergi Rusca <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ebfccfdbd75686a5a8cc96f8863d1c4c221e0a351e3e57e11d4a86288d258d7a/radius2.jpg" data-mid="148203153" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ebfccfdbd75686a5a8cc96f8863d1c4c221e0a351e3e57e11d4a86288d258d7a/radius2.jpg" /> Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne at RADIUS CCA - Climate of Concern - Building out in the Age of Fossil Fuel Expressionism, 2022. Work on right: Julian Charriere, Future Fossil Spaces, 2017. Copyright: RADIUS CCA / photo: Gunnar Meier <img width="5500" height="3667" width_o="5500" height_o="3667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35d6ae31eb759da229ca389784ebee8ce85033cd8bf5aeabfc357dbedb33694b/DSC_9255-HDR.jpg" data-mid="235990876" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35d6ae31eb759da229ca389784ebee8ce85033cd8bf5aeabfc357dbedb33694b/DSC_9255-HDR.jpg" /> Fossil Fuel Mnemosnyne at&nbsp;‘Textile Biennial 2025. Interwoven Futures’, Museum Rijswijk, NL. Photo: LNDW Studio. <img width="1926" height="1284" width_o="1926" height_o="1284" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc34c5e10121437867965257e832278fdd9ce78f15ce1062be193f74919aeedc/01.jpg" data-mid="144269549" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc34c5e10121437867965257e832278fdd9ce78f15ce1062be193f74919aeedc/01.jpg" /> Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne at Prospects - Art Rotterdam, curated by Johan Gustavsson and Gabija Seiliute, may&nbsp;2022. Copyright: Aad Hoogendoorn <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ef681a1d76515c61267f17d45fb924c2dc89966b2a0525d92820abe2ac15f8d/Photo-Josefina-Eikenaar-TextielMuseum-2023-016-035.jpg" data-mid="189385671" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ef681a1d76515c61267f17d45fb924c2dc89966b2a0525d92820abe2ac15f8d/Photo-Josefina-Eikenaar-TextielMuseum-2023-016-035.jpg" />Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne on show during Secrets of Making #3 exhibition, Textielmuseum Tilburg, NL. Copyright: Patty van den Elshout/ Beeldenbank Textielmuseum. <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58b49b6035966c4740fd79f586c69970384d791f6e07cfe7eec725397030869c/Photo-Patty-van-den-Elshout-i.o.v.-TextielMuseum-2023-016-086.png" data-mid="185408755" border="0" data-scale="97" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58b49b6035966c4740fd79f586c69970384d791f6e07cfe7eec725397030869c/Photo-Patty-van-den-Elshout-i.o.v.-TextielMuseum-2023-016-086.png" />Pastel drawing sketch Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne on show during Secrets of Making #3 exhibition, Textielmuseum Tilburg, NL. Copyright: Patty van den Elshout/ Beeldenbank Textielmuseum. <img width="2000" height="1273" width_o="2000" height_o="1273" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9de3febdc30e3a0ab88c19e3e06915c5eb7559b028ff7c4943cb86956a891c6f/Textielmuseum1-2.jpg" data-mid="143208769" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9de3febdc30e3a0ab88c19e3e06915c5eb7559b028ff7c4943cb86956a891c6f/Textielmuseum1-2.jpg" /> Production at the TextielLab, the professional working place of the Textile Museum Tilburg, detail. Copyright Miriam Sentler, 2022 <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a6eb9a3188e081a2715a3edd4f4592983df8d69ada9e46ba4f88fbc58c43395/3000Photo-Patty-van-den-Elshout-i.o.v.-TextielMuseum-2023-012-009.jpg" data-mid="189386285" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a6eb9a3188e081a2715a3edd4f4592983df8d69ada9e46ba4f88fbc58c43395/3000Photo-Patty-van-den-Elshout-i.o.v.-TextielMuseum-2023-012-009.jpg" /> Production at the TextielLab, the professional working place of the Textile Museum Tilburg, detail, 2022. Copyright: Patty van den Elshout/ Beeldenbank Textielmuseum <img width="2000" height="1010" width_o="2000" height_o="1010" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85ad2ff9ca51a02b62dc4b2ae0ad1e5f6dcce4b8170516cf1dc8364d016c3d2e/Tapestry-design.png" data-mid="143208937" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85ad2ff9ca51a02b62dc4b2ae0ad1e5f6dcce4b8170516cf1dc8364d016c3d2e/Tapestry-design.png" /> Pastel drawing scan, design tapestry, 350 x 175 cm, 2022. Copyright: Miriam Sentler https://miriamsentler.com/Ancestors-Rising Fri, 20 May 2022 19:24:57 +0000 Miriam Sentler https://miriamsentler.com/Ancestors-Rising Ancestors Rising This work was made with Deep Time Agency and in the context of the Rheinische Braunkohlerevier. Thanks to archaeologists Martin Street and Marcus Wild, the LVR Landesmuseum Bonn, Monrepos, Museum for Archaeology&nbsp; and Human Behavioural Evolution, Guido Steffen, Robin Peters, Frank MoselerTeam: Casper Brink (camera), KIWI Aerial Shots (drone operations), Frank Broos en Susanne van der Steen (3D scan &amp; print) <img width="259" height="125" width_o="259" height_o="125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33474870a154c72473da4b3576dc8e703a2235815bed8759c1cd3a20694c3b79/bbk_neustart_logo_desktop_124h.gif" data-mid="151021039" border="0" data-scale="30" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/259/i/33474870a154c72473da4b3576dc8e703a2235815bed8759c1cd3a20694c3b79/bbk_neustart_logo_desktop_124h.gif" /> The project is generously funded by BBK-Projektbüro NEUSTART, Berlin (DE) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (2021/2022)&nbsp;Video installation, site specific performance, drone flight over Garzweiler lignite pit (DE) Ancestors Rising was a site-specific intervention at the Garzweiler lignite mine. In 1987, archaeologists made a unique discovery in the middle of the pit when they found two 10.000-year-old antler frontlets. These extremely rare objects were most likely part of a shamanic garb, worn during important ceremonies in the stone age. The work reactivated the antler artefacts through a site-specific intervention on site by temporarily bringing the archeological objects back to their exact find place in mid-air. According to the scientists who studied the antler objects, they may have symbolised a connection with the wider universe, reaching out into the cosmos from the top of the head like antennae. The Mesolithic shaman created change in the physical world from the visions he received from the universe, affecting health, fertility, crops and hunt. Next to equipping us with the technical information about the age of this erased cultural landscape, the antler headdress’ symbolical meaning might be of an even stronger, potentially activistic quality. It reconnects us back to a time when humans still saw themselves as part of the wider environment. Rituals of sacrifice and worship were meant to keep the gods satisfied and kept humans in check with the forces of nature, contributing to a holistic balance with their surroundings. In the Anthropocene, this balance has been disturbed. At the same time, the Stone Age can be seen as a turning point in human history. The cultivation of fire and the start of agriculture might have been the first indications of the nature-culture dichotomy. Ancestors Rising aims to revisit this point of departure in order to rethink the role of humans in this particular environment and to envision ways to reconnect with the intrinsic nature of the land. The work reactivated the antler artefacts through an intervention on site by temporarily bringing the archeological objects back to their exact find place. Nowadays, the geographical coordinates point towards a location in the sky, since all surrounding earth has been excavated. Therefore, a drone was used to fly one of the objects back to its original location. The other replica was used as an extension of the antennae of the pilot’s remote control, re-establishing a link to its original function as an instrument, used to transmit signals into the atmosphere. To make this possible, replicas were printed from 3D scans of the original antlers. The new objects were then re-designed to form a new instruments together with the drone and remote control, merging the ancient with the contemporary. <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/895a6663b342fa5dce0b1beed89550e0f61d61ca6c0cdc9201223f1970a82b74/AR03.jpg" data-mid="150412893" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/895a6663b342fa5dce0b1beed89550e0f61d61ca6c0cdc9201223f1970a82b74/AR03.jpg" /> Still Ancestors Rising video, finding place of the antler frontlets, 2022. Photo credits: Miriam Sentler &amp; Wouter Osterholt <img width="1093" height="858" width_o="1093" height_o="858" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/948858791e7c51d4d1c902c200e3544c6eda354a0c77fc84f14ed023c5ea511a/WhatsApp-Image-2022-05-18-at-12.15.55-PM.jpg" data-mid="214941846" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/948858791e7c51d4d1c902c200e3544c6eda354a0c77fc84f14ed023c5ea511a/WhatsApp-Image-2022-05-18-at-12.15.55-PM.jpg" /><img width="2152" height="1882" width_o="2152" height_o="1882" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eaa003ca95be77a0c9a52e8c5357f6172936aba3771ecc4f9e5abd4c53209a8c/ezgif.jpg" data-mid="214941851" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eaa003ca95be77a0c9a52e8c5357f6172936aba3771ecc4f9e5abd4c53209a8c/ezgif.jpg" />Image of the archaeological find by Martin Street and illustration of a Stone Age shamane wearing an antler frontlet, Nicholaes Witsen, 1692, Russia.&nbsp; <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a6e62fcf2439c31eb765907adb59707dc072b631498cc2be9e04b4e42df8e2a/AR08.jpg" data-mid="150413232" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a6e62fcf2439c31eb765907adb59707dc072b631498cc2be9e04b4e42df8e2a/AR08.jpg" /> Still Ancestors Rising video, 2022. Photo credits: Miriam Sentler &amp; Wouter Osterholt <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93881874db31944791fc56be05c3c93ee00262fc09ca141a5a0da96c36b939a4/AR16.jpg" data-mid="150412907" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93881874db31944791fc56be05c3c93ee00262fc09ca141a5a0da96c36b939a4/AR16.jpg" /> Still Ancestors Rising video, 2022. Photo credits: Miriam Sentler &amp; Wouter Osterholt <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3c4317f2841b17f92bb8cdfcae4b219ab4ee7756a5e1294831a70530611a614/AR23.jpg" data-mid="150412964" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3c4317f2841b17f92bb8cdfcae4b219ab4ee7756a5e1294831a70530611a614/AR23.jpg" /> Still Ancestors Rising video, 2022. Photo credits: Miriam Sentler &amp; Wouter Osterholt <img width="3611" height="2031" width_o="3611" height_o="2031" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/731c6aa531b50b15514b55d5393f17097f5b3483f4c4fc708e3746a2ad241a6b/Ancestorsrising1.jpg" data-mid="214941801" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/731c6aa531b50b15514b55d5393f17097f5b3483f4c4fc708e3746a2ad241a6b/Ancestorsrising1.jpg" />Still Ancestors Rising video, 2022. Photo credits: Miriam Sentler &amp; Wouter Osterholt <img width="4724" height="3149" width_o="4724" height_o="3149" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/291f360b0c5bbceee814cb0d1bda3a48c769cfaaad17e74351883e70ab7046e8/cover2.jpg" data-mid="150413881" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/291f360b0c5bbceee814cb0d1bda3a48c769cfaaad17e74351883e70ab7046e8/cover2.jpg" /> Still Ancestors Rising video, 2022. Photo credits: Miriam Sentler &amp; Wouter Osterholt <img width="3753" height="2111" width_o="3753" height_o="2111" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/419bbb42933824cf66553c975f649cbfe3b8dfea05049b94fb1befa2717c094e/Ancestorsrising3.jpg" data-mid="214941806" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/419bbb42933824cf66553c975f649cbfe3b8dfea05049b94fb1befa2717c094e/Ancestorsrising3.jpg" />Still Ancestors Rising video, 2022. Photo credits: Miriam Sentler &amp; Wouter Osterholt <img width="3715" height="2090" width_o="3715" height_o="2090" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6374bb7f47540a911865efe54b9b704010f3a2510c43d0c11fcc987d9a386aae/Ancestorsrising2.jpg" data-mid="214941823" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6374bb7f47540a911865efe54b9b704010f3a2510c43d0c11fcc987d9a386aae/Ancestorsrising2.jpg" /> Still Ancestors Rising video, 2022. Photo credits: Miriam Sentler &amp; Wouter Osterholt <img width="1330" height="757" width_o="1330" height_o="757" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0abf4ff25f7e78979b74abec0be113b0372eeab12e4c87a3a251392ef66ac2a6/AR1.jpg" data-mid="143209926" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0abf4ff25f7e78979b74abec0be113b0372eeab12e4c87a3a251392ef66ac2a6/AR1.jpg" /> Filming Ancestors Rising, former Garzweiler pit by Frimmersdorf, North-Rhine Westphalia (DE), May 2022