Live Editing Session: Shaken Grounds

The research project Shaken Grounds brings together artists, scientists, and curators to explore how seismic disturbances of the Earth shape perception, bodies, and collective forms of living together.

Not only natural but also anthropogenic forces give rise to (or intensify) seismic processes. What forms of precarity shape this socio-geological dynamic, and what new uncertainties does it produce? How do human and more-than-human actors move on ground that is increasingly unstable – geologically, politically, and existentially?

Situated at the intersection of artistic research, geology, somatic practices, performance art, and film making, the project understands seismography as an open, transdisciplinary practice: a method of perceiving, translating, and relating bodies, technologies, and the planet Earth at sites of heightened seismic activity.

This event is part of the experimental studio, which the research project Shaken Grounds. Seismography of Precarious Presences is setting up at AIL during April.

The project was funded through the Austrian Science Fund’s Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK) from 2023 to 2026. The methods and artefacts developed during this period will be presented in the experimental studio and lead to an exhibition, that opens 4 May, 18:00 (Save the date!). The exhibition in May will make visible the first curatorial axes of a group exhibition and conference planned for 2027, featuring Italian, Icelandic, Croatian, and Austrian artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (Muzej suvremene umjetnosti Zagreb). The exhibition is supported by Creative Europe.

About the exhibition
The exhibition presents findings from the research project Shaken Grounds. Seismography of Precarious Presences (funded by Austrian Science Fund (FWF): AR 780. DOI: 10.55776) and also marks the launch of the Creative Europe project Shaken Grounds: Art as Seismography (funded by the European Union).

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