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Made in collaboration with Ingrid K. Bjørnaali and Fabian Lanzmaier. Co-produced with UKAI Projects and funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and Fond for Lyd og Bilde

Land Bodies, Decomposing Mass is an interactive, new media installation that explores the ritual significance of bogs within the contemporary Capitalocene.

Bogs have been culturally and ecologically important places throughout history. They have acted as sacred offering sites, burial grounds, and clandestine storage of valuable goods. When visiting a bog, the experience is one of mystery, ambiguity, beauty, and timelessness. They challenge simple classificatory concepts of land and water and are places where culture and ecology, past and present are entangled.

This work has been exhibited at the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (Norway), The Barracks (Romania), NITJA Art Centre (Norway), and has an upcoming exhibition at Charles Street Video (Canada).

CSV Gallery times:

Saturday, November 18 from 12noon to 4pm
Wednesday, November 22 from 12 noon to 5pm
Thursday, November 23 from 6pm to 8pm
Friday, November 24 from 6pm to 8pm
Saturday, November 25th from 12noon to 4pm
Wednesday, November 29th from 12 noon to 5pm
Thursday, November 30th from 6pm to 8pm
Friday, December 1st from 6pm to 8pm
Saturday, December 2nd from 12noon to 4pm

Aritst Bios

Maria Simmons
Maria Simmons (she/they) is a hybrid artist who investigates potentialized environments through the creation of hybrid sculpture and installation. Their work embraces contamination as an act of collaboration. She collects garbage, grows yeast, ferments plants, and nurtures fruit flies. She makes art that eats itself.
They hold an MFA from the University of Waterloo and a BFA from McMaster University. She has recently exhibited with the Visual Art Centre of Clarington, Gallery Stratford, Trinity Square Video, and Centre3. She has completed residencies at Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (Norway), Mustarinda (Finland), BioArt Society (Finland), Silent Barn (USA), and Factory Media Centre (Canada).


Ingrid K. Bjørnaali
Bjørnaali captures specific biotopes with digital camera technologies and works with these bits and pieces of nature based on their virtual outcome. She is interested in various processes of learning from- and interpreting our surroundings and the species we co-exist with, through a scientific and technological approach to image-making, inquiring into the way they alter our scopic regimes. Her works explore the omnipresence of the digital in our experience of the world as well as the inability of technology to adequately articulate matter’s complexity.She is a video artist born in 1991 in Kristiansand, living in Oslo. She received an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of Fine Art in 2021. She spent parts of her MFA studies on exchange in Helsinki at the Taideyliopiston Kuvataideakatemia, delving deeper into the Finnish video universe in the department “Time and Space Arts”.

Fabian Lanzmaier
Lanzmaier is interested in creating imaginary synthetic landscapes. He strives to merge the experience of the natural and the artificial, to confront the listener with ideas of fluid and ambiguous environments. Through the use of digital synthesis he is constructing sound objects that appear to exist hauntingly physical. The ambience of rave is bended and twisted to a more distorted and fractured appearance. The sound design is based on physical modelling synthesis forming sounds of different size, scale, form and origin. Inspired by science fiction novels, techno music, the harsh intensity of noise and ambient music, the experimentation with song structures and a narrative approach guides the compositions.