Philipp Hoelzgen

Mining Roots of Planets, 2025

Opening
k23_artstudio, Exarchia 21. February 2025
collaborating Artists:

Vasilia Georgiou (Soundperformance)
Theodora Vasileiadou (Perfomance)

How do we figure out what itʼs like to live on a planet? By now, we should know weʼve been practicing for thousands of years. The Stone Age, antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times feel like Pokémon evolution stages to me. And now, weʼre in the future. We have artificial intelligence, self-driving cars and drone warfare. But somehow it also feels like our inventories are beginning to turn against us. Gaia, once green and thriving, no longer seems to be on our side.

People talk about our relationship with "nature" as if stepping back would magically fix everything, like the tortoise and the elephant shaking hands again. But the real question remains: What is our actual connection to this planet. Is it us who have a planet, or a planet that has people. Itʼs strangeenot knowing if Earth is a wild wolf that needs taming or a cuddly puppy we should care for. Neither feels quite right when you realize that both my life and the life of my species are temporary.

With that in mind, the idea that we could ever truly learn how to live on a planet feels almost delusional. When I look out from my studio at all the satellite dishes and antennas, it all seems a little too “spaced out” here.
Through the objects I create I try to understand, what are the connections between the living and the non-living. So I link the technosphere, biosphere, and geosphere, forming a kind of networkk always reaching for new connections.

Level Zero, 2025

Soundperformance, 15min
Vasilia Georgiou, Philipp Hoelzgen

The horn blows to dig deeper. Deeper than we could ever imagine. Silence spreads until even the light becomes audible. Whispering photons swirl in infinite space and you begin to hear huge worlds colliding. Slowly they grind and fall apart. They dissolve into sweating, roaring, crackling voices.

Circular Reset, 2025

Performance, 11 min
Theodora Vasileiadou, Philipp Hoelzgen

Dripping between spheres of existence, means coexisting with the ability to response to the surroundings and create novel conditions. Metachrosis1 is, what some animals use for their expression, protection and communication.
However, what other options could be developed to morph into a field of undefined knowing? Our way to find out, is to inhale the stimuli of hybrid beings, to melt, to response and then morph into undefined functions of fluid identities.

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