To watch the full one-channel video Inside Ballona/Waachnga (30:36 min, color, silent) from my visual installation created for Climate Care 2023 at Architecture Lab Floating University Berlin, in collaboration with Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Berlin (Germany), you can go to Labocine Pro now. The film is also featured in the April 2025 issue of Science New Wave: Ethnobotanica.
You can find the Warm Bodies film scene from my installation of the same name, displayed 2024 at Small Works in San Francisco, in collaboration with Personal Space in Vallejo (US), featured in the April 2025 issue of Science New Wave: Ethnobotanica.
As part of the group exhibition Reach for Shine at Small Works, San Francisco (US) in collaboration with Personal Space, Vallejo (US), the installation Warm Bodies uses an infrared lens to explore the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve. The film has a poetic, experimental approach and creates a hypnotic and immersive sensory experience. Opening reception: September 5, 2024, 5-8 pm.
Marsh Lab at my studio in Venice, California. Right now, I am exploring bee vision with ultraviolet-light-sensitive cameras and high-speed recordings. Stay tuned!
The Ballona Wetlands - Optical sensors, motion capture, and the vision of the Dragonfly at the Annual Meeting of the Southern California Academy of Sciences at Chapman University, Orange County (California), May 4, 2024, 4:30 pm
Inside Ballona/Waachnga travels to the Climate Care Festival Critterkratia at Floating University Berlin (Germany). September 21 - 30, 2023. Curated by Gilly Karjevski and Rosario Talevi
The Ballona Waachnga project opens on September 21 at the 18th Street Art Center. Invited by Fulcrum Festival, our installation will be up for 24 hours in Los Angeles (USA)
The photographs for the spring and summer survey for The Ballona Waachnga Project were made possible by the Stiftung Kunstfonds and Neustart Kultur, Bonn (Germany)
