Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani

Die Alchemie der Wolken – Art, Activism and Splitting Communites

Die Alchemie der Wolken - Art, Activism and Splitting Communities
6 channel video installation, 2021

Fischer & el Sani’s artistic practice is inspired by situationist and interventionist methods. They use performative, process oriented strategies and develop their art projects in dialogue with local communities. Their latest project ’Die Alchemie der Wolken - Art, Activism and Splitting Communities’ is posing key questions in relation to climate change and its potential to split the society.
Fischer & el Sani have staged a simulation game in an urban biotope, the rainwater collection basin at Berlin’s abandoned Tempelhof Airport. Like the venue itself, the protagonists find themselves in a transitional situation. A glowing cloud hovering over a village becomes the catalyst for an ominous social divide. This cloud forces people to decide whether they want to try radically new ways of living and drastically curtail their consumption, or whether everything should remain as it is. The natural phenomenon is illustrative of a global problem, and represents differences and tensions. Fischer & el Sani pose key questions about the non-historical occurrence of division that paralyses and undermines societies around the world: Do we feel called to immediate action? Or do we want to limit our perception to one of a mere natural phenomenon and not draw any consequences?

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Die Alchemie der Wolken - Art, Activism and Splitting Communities
6 channel video installation, 2021 (excerpt 2 min.)