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Armin Linke
OCEANS. Dialogues between ocean floor and water column, 2017

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Four-channel video installation, color, sound
40 min (videos)
Overall dimensions variable
Oceans was an official project of the Year of Science 2016*17 – Seas and Oceans, a programme of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The project was commissioned and co-produced by TBA21-Academy.


The imagery deployed in this four-channel video installation was assembled and edited by Linke and his team from footage provided by the GEOMAR and MARUM research institutes in Kiel and Bremen. The footage was filmed by ROVs in depths of up to 5,000 meters. The videos look almost meditative, as if documenting an underwater choreography executed by robotic arms, whereas the aim is to extract specimens for study in the laboratory. On an accompanying monitor, precise information about the site and time of the extraction is displayed alongside details on the purpose of the collections. Comments by researchers from various disciplines evaluate the material from their respective positions, putting it into a broader context.
–Stefanie Hessler
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