the sources are disputed
The sources are disputed is part of an ongoing series by Dennis Buckland and Aljoscha Lahner, exploring the interconnected relationship between themselves, their bodies and their environment. The work consists of four simultaneous streams of video footage; one from a colonoscopy, one from inside the KIT and two from alpine hikes.
The first two are shown on tv screens facing each other, both overlayed with a screen made from tent lining that displays the other videos respectively. The visitors are invited to enter the installation space, to follow the probing movement of the camera and the search it is part of.
Based on their shared experience with undiagnosable digestive issues and medical procedures, like the colonoscopy, the two performers set out together on a different journey to find a source. A disturbed digestive system is commonly thought to be a psychosomatic symptom of excessive stress as the gut lining is a sensitive interface that reacts to the inner workings of the organic body as much as to the external environment. In an effort to realign their sense of self with their external realities, they go on a hike. Their starting point is Lake Toma in Switzerland, which is deemed the official source of the Rhein. However, along their path they discover more springs under the snow feeding the tributaries and thus the Rhine itself, disputing the claim to an original source. Eventually they become mired in snow. Yet the journey is continuous. Swept up by the analogical current, the duo washes up in the concrete tributary of the Rhine, the KIT, to project the action of searching into the architectural space.
From the exhibition Down the Rabbit Hole, KIT Museum, Dusseldorf, 2022
Variable Media – Nylon tent, 4 channel HD video (13 min), projection and monitor display
The sources are disputed is part of an ongoing series by Dennis Buckland and Aljoscha Lahner, exploring the interconnected relationship between themselves, their bodies and their environment. The work consists of four simultaneous streams of video footage; one from a colonoscopy, one from inside the KIT and two from alpine hikes.
The first two are shown on tv screens facing each other, both overlayed with a screen made from tent lining that displays the other videos respectively. The visitors are invited to enter the installation space, to follow the probing movement of the camera and the search it is part of.
Based on their shared experience with undiagnosable digestive issues and medical procedures, like the colonoscopy, the two performers set out together on a different journey to find a source. A disturbed digestive system is commonly thought to be a psychosomatic symptom of excessive stress as the gut lining is a sensitive interface that reacts to the inner workings of the organic body as much as to the external environment. In an effort to realign their sense of self with their external realities, they go on a hike. Their starting point is Lake Toma in Switzerland, which is deemed the official source of the Rhein. However, along their path they discover more springs under the snow feeding the tributaries and thus the Rhine itself, disputing the claim to an original source. Eventually they become mired in snow. Yet the journey is continuous. Swept up by the analogical current, the duo washes up in the concrete tributary of the Rhine, the KIT, to project the action of searching into the architectural space.
From the exhibition Down the Rabbit Hole, KIT Museum, Dusseldorf, 2022
Variable Media – Nylon tent, 4 channel HD video (13 min), projection and monitor display
2022
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