Climate change is the defining issue of our time, but it is just a harbinger of what is to come. We as humanity have set in motion a chain of events that are a threat to the entire web of life on Earth and therefore to the world as we understand it.
Evolibrium
Transformative Chaos at a Crossroads
(Photography – Soundscapes – Narration)
A Crisis of Empathy
Facing the overwhelming task of writing an essay about our relationship with Planet Earth, for the first time I am staring at a blank page. What, if any, value could I possibly add to the debate? How could I do justice to the magnitude and complexity of the most pressing topic of our times? How could I give meaning without merely repeating?
While we are tumbling towards a dramatic breakdown of the Earth system as we know it, all seems to be said, yelled, discussed, from all angles and viewpoints, in all shades of vocabulary. Articles, podcasts, scientific forecasts, numbers, graphs, warnings – the brutal urgency is in plain sight for all to see.
But still, it does not feel – I do not feel.
This might be a path worth exploring.
Dramatic environmntal changes are real. Rationally I know, I understand, I believe, and I wholeheartedly support; but why, in the face of the biggest ever danger to humanity and the living world, do I, and so many of us, not feel the gravity of the moment? My consciousness must be distorted.
To feel we need emotions, and emo…
1 Essay, 5 Chapters, Text and Audio
15+1 Photographs, Low and High Resolution
16+1 Soundscapes
Additional Text Snippets
1-2 hours
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We are a part of Nature, but we set ourselves apart. We depend on Nature, but we deliberately destroy the natural environment we live in. This contradictory relationship is the starting point of my audio-visual project “Evolibrium – Transformative Chaos at a Crossroads”, a story about human hubris, the transformation of our conceptual frameworks, and the grave reverberations of humanity’s continuous emotional severing from the non-human sphere.
With a mix of black and white photographs, soundscapes, and narration, I explore the relationship between humankind and Nature from the hunter-gatherer past to the post-modern present, before turning to the future imagining what might be to come.
The term Evolibrium describes Nature’s dualistic state as static equilibrium and progressive evolution at the same time, both intertwined and each moving on their own scale of time. Once Nature on Earth is pushed out of this fragile balance, it enters a phase of chaotic environmental changes, until finally a new Evolibrium is found – a new state of temporary (dis)harmony.
With Evolibrium I hope to broaden the journalistic tradition of information transfer from a factual to a more intuitive approach, focusing less on the flashing trends of the day but rather exploring – with the help of emotional elements – the underlying long-term reasons of our troublesome relationship with Planet Earth.
Therefore, this semi-journalistic long-form exhibition experiment aims to bring an additional perspective to not only the debate about Climate Change but also the meta level of how humanity engages with the non-human world.
“The online exhibition Evolibrium will take you on an emotional journey into a world beyond the natural balance we know. This thought-provoking medley of black and white photographs, soundscapes, and narration challenges common perceptions and makes us see the world with new eyes. Experience a head-spinning, insightful – and at times scary – contemplation of human and non-human (co)existance on Earth.”
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Essay and Photography – Arved Gintenreiter
Image Post Production – Impact Digital, New York, US
Sound Composition – 19 Sound, London, UK
Sound Special Effect Cracking Rock – Fonic, London, UK
Last but not least, every project is teamwork. A big thank you to all more and less visible supporters along the road from planning to shooting to getting this exhibition online. Thank you for not just your help but all the good advice along the way.
Special thanks to all National Park Rangers in Iceland who raised my spirits with chats, spontaneous dinners, laughter, and with granting permits whenever needed.
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