Another Deep is a multimedia art and research project exploring the impact of human activity in Arctic waters.
Another Deep is an audiovisual performance exploring seabed mining in the Svalbard region, aiming to provoke discussion on its environmental and geopolitical implications, while highlighting the contrasts and tensions in the area.
Based on an in-depth collection of audiovisual materials, the performance offers a distinctive vision of the region, translating an uncertain future into a troubling present, to encourage audiences to reflect on the often invisible repercussions of human activities.
Platform partners
In coproduction with GMEM, Multiplica / Rotondes.
With the support of the Mondriaan Fund and Stimuleringsfonds.s
Mark IJzerman
Interdisciplinary artist
Mark IJzerman is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of ecology and media art.
IJzerman uses digital technologies to create processes that have their own agency, to make works that create an intimacy between ourselves and the other-than-human. His work is always informed by field research as well as collaboration with other professionals. He is the 2022 winner of the S+T+ARTS4Water residency "Biodiversity in the Rotterdam Port" organized by V2_, on which he is currently working. He has presented his audiovisual works at various media art festivals in Europe (Rewire Festival, Meakusma, Transmediale/CTM Vorspiel, Le Guess Who?, FIBER Festival, Mapping Festival) and has recently exhibited his work at the MU in Eindhoven, the Art Center Nabi in Seoul, _V2 in Rotterdam, De Lakenhal in Leiden and on the International Space Station. IJzerman is a professor in the Ecology Futures MA at the Master Institute of Visual Cultures in Den Bosch, where he and his students explore how sensory technologies can be used to respond to the climate emergency through experiential projects. He is a member of the new media collective Zesbaans and runs the sound art blog Everyday Listening.
Sébastien Robert
Artist, interdisciplinary researcher
Sébastien Robert (1993, Nantes, FR) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher developing a practice at the intersection of visual and sound arts, technology, science and ethnography. Most of his projects revolve around a research cycle, You're no Bird of Paradise, through which he explores endangered indigenous sound rituals and cosmologies. More than simply documenting, but without being an ambitious ethnographic archiving project, he aims to translate these intangible resources into tangible, perennial artworks made from materials that echo the traditions of the communities he meets and the geo-specificities of the territories he explores.
Through his work and research, Sébastien seeks opportunities to create an engaged and expanding artistic dialogue between non-Western perspectives and new technologies, while questioning our perception of our environment and highlighting the epistemological diversity of the world we inhabit.
Mark IJzerman
SébastienRobert
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