Conversation: Alluvium & M.I.R.A.G.E. On Reimagining the Interstice

In conjunction with the current exhibition Frequencies, “On Reimagining the Interstice” is a conversation with visuals presented by exhibiting artist collective Alluvium and M.I.R.A.G.E., a concurrent project with overlapping members. Using recent works of video, sound, and installation from both projects as examples, the artists will present a conversation on the theoretical potential of the interstitial.

About the artists

Alluvium is a collaboration between Nika Kaiser and Nathan Stickel. Using video projection, field recordings, and sound, both composed and improvised, they create immersive video installations with live elements that are responses and reflections to site-specific details of the natural world’s fluctuating conditions. The geologic phenomenon of Alluvium occurs when loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach for an impermanent period of time. These collaborative works are an exploration of a process of accumulation of tenuous, shifting environmental conditions, the installations serving as a temporal repository for them.

M.I.R.A.G.E. is a collaborative project between Nika Kaiser and Max Telos. Kaiser and Telos are long time friends and have been thinking, reading and working together for many years. As M.I.R.A.G.E., they produce video and sound works which use explorative and experimental techniques. Based in the Southwestern US, Telos and Kaiser discuss questions of animal-human relation, infrastructure and space.

About the Exhibition

Frequencies is an exhibition featuring a group of contemporary artists who explore the dynamic possibilities of sound. These artists attend to the audible and inaudible traces of the world to create works across sculpture, architecture, video, performance, and image. Artists included are Alluvium, Vivian Caccuri, Sofía Córodva, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Nikita Gale, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Sara Ouhaddou, Adrian Piper, Ana Paula Santana, Naama Tsabar, and Karima Walker. The exhibition also features Channeling the Ear, a dedicated space for intimate listening experiences featuring a selection of albums by artists and musicians such as AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti), Maryanne Amacher, Jessica Ekomane, Christine Sun Kim, Katalin Ladik, Lime Rickey International (Leyya Mona Tawil), Audra Wolowiec, and selections from the collection of Nothing to Commit Records, a research and publishing platform founded by guest curator Bhavisha Panchia.