LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur | Westfälischer Kunstverein with Nina Fischer & Maroan el sani: “Cloud Alchemy – Art, Activism and splitting Communities”
ARTISTS: Nina Fischer, Maroan el sani
A 6-channel-video-installation exhibited in LWL-Museum of Art and Culture within the scope of the cooperation exhibition „Nimmersatt? Thinking society without growth“ (November 27th 2021-February 27th 2022)
Nina Fischer (*1965, Emden) & Maroan el Sani (*1966, Duisburg) frequently develop their video projects in workshops and employing performative scenes with actresses and actors. For the Cloud Alchemy project, the artists have staged a simulation game in the rainwater collection basin at Berlin’s abandoned Tempelhof Airport. Like the venue itself, the protagonists find themselves in a transitional situation. Using texts by Japanese writer Toshiki Okada, a glowing cloud hovering over a village becomes the catalyst for an ominous social divide. This cloud forces people to decide whether they want to try radically new ways of living and types of housing and drastically curtail their consumption, or whether everything should remain as it is. The natural phenomenon is illustrative of a global problem, and represents differences and tensions. Fischer & el Sani pose key questions about the non-historical occurrence of division that paralyses and undermines societies around the world: Do we feel called to immediate action? Or do we want to limit our perception to one of a mere natural phenomenon and not draw any consequences?
Co-produced by the LWL-Museum of Art and Culture. Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW.
Olga Felker talks to Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani about the project in the podcast
EVENTS FOR THE PROJECT CLOUD ALCHEMY
NIMMERSATT? THINKING SOCIETY WITHOUT GROWTH
Cooperative exhibition: Kunsthalle Münster, LWL-Museum of Art and Culture and Westfälischer Kunstverein
November 27th 2021 – February 27th 2022
Opening: November 26th 2021
At three venues in Münster a total of 25 international artists will present works in different media and raise the question of what might take the place of the existing economic and social models in the future. In three rounds of talks on the opening day, experts and artists will speak about themes such as responsibility, abundance or capital. The almost 30 works of art on show make reference to current crises, social inequality, climate change, illness, war, refugee movements, xenophobia and the attendant developments. The works ask which other options exist apart from growth.
The exhibition will include video installations, drawings, photographs and sculptures, along with works in the public domain. In addition to a series of works on loan, the venues will feature several new productions that emerged in dialogue with the curators and are being shown here for the first time.
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Photography: Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, “The Alchemy of Clouds -Art, Activism and Splitting Communities”, 6-channel video installation, funnel-shaped wooden construction, 2021. Production Still, 2021 © Fischer & elSani and VG Bild Kunst, Bonn 2021.