How might we put ourselves in a more interwoven relation to that of which we are part? Our contemporary world, as it exists in its physically-digitally-intimately-global interconnections, feels progressively obscure and subliminally complex to navigate. This artistic research project is curious about how we inhabit this entangled web and suggests it increasingly important that we can respond through a more embodied, and expanded connection. Here, the project explores how a speculative approach to scientific/mathematical models of physical dimensions, can contribute as artistic, methodological tools in this regard, and investigates how speculative, interdimensional movements within an art context, can invite broader and more flexible ways of experiencing, reflecting, and relating.

The exploration is situated within an interdisciplinary arena that incorporates artistic strategies from New Media Art, Interactive Installation and Performance, all merged into a site dubbed a performative installation. The spatial structures in the performative installations constitute the framework, from which participating audiences are invited to interact, and so explore movement between various dimensional perspectives. Additionally, the project explores how digital interactive technology and speculative narrative fabulations might enable a folding into nearly impossible/imperceivable higher dimensional entanglements. Thus, inviting various approaches to being in an active, interconnected relation to that which seems beyond our reach.

Concurrently, the project has been occupied with a new-materialist notion of how to give voice to interdimensional / intermedial performative installations, speculatively turning them into more-than-human beings, that talk and express themselves through the media-modalities of the work. The artistic results have therefore taken the form of a series of larger environement beings that the audience can become part of and listen to, from within. That of “Marie Sikveland as a Room”, “Store Lungegårdsvannet”, “The Art Academy” and the “Earth Being of Nordnes” in Bergen.