Ziggy and the Starfish, 2016-2022

Ziggy and the Starfish (2016-2024) is a sculptural video environment composing of variable sculptural elements and two films exploring the diversity of sexuality in the ocean. Amidst pressing ecological and social crises, Ziggy and the Starfish investigates our position in relation to the natural and built environment. The work looks at ways that we consume or sustain our environment, lending insight to the perception of self through the eyes of non-human ‘others’, and forging understandings of the complex networks within which we are embedded. Ziggy and the Starfish looks at sexuality from the perspective of marine life. Hydrospheric climate change is the deciding factor in the changing sexuality of ocean inhabitants. The visualization of the sex life of sea slugs, octopuses and starfish, amongst others, and their vibrant and seductive performative play, draws the human spectator in an intimate and hallucinatory sexual world.

Re/Sisters: A Lens of Gender and Ecology, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK (2023), Fomu, Antwerpen, Belgium (2024) Liquid Intelligence, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (2023) Ziggy and the Starfish, Wave Installation (2022) Ghosts in the Machine, Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Ziggy and the Starfish (2016) Medium: video installation, bed, fishnet, fish pillows, two single - channel HD videos, sound Duration: 16:28 and 21:01min Commissioned for the exhibition „Agency of Living Organisms“ (2016) curated by Pauline Doutreluingne, produced by Tabakalera - International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastian, Spain. Exhibited at the Riga Biennal "Everything was forever, until it was no more" 2018, curated by Katerina Gregos and Solvej Helweg Ovesen Lofoten Art Festival 2019, "From the horse’s mouth" curated by Hilde Methi, Neal Cahoon, Karolin Tampere, and Torill Østby Haaland Moderna Museet Malmö "Sensing Nature From Within" (2019) Sweden, Curator: Joa Ljungberg Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem, Israel, Curator: Vera Kormann Roskilde Festival, Denmark, Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen OvNI Festival Nizza, France, Curator: Pauline Doutreluingne Capitalo, Chthulu, and a Much Hotter Compost Pile, Kunstraum Bethanien, curated by Lorena Juan, Lena Johanna Reisner und Anïis Senli Director: Anne Duk Hee Jordan Editor: Simone Serlenga Footage Research: Pauline Doutreluingne Camera: Anne Duk Hee Jordan Textil Design: Kye Hee Yoon Sound: Nevo Ron and Anne Duk Hee Jordan Photo: Dzidzis Grodzs (Riga Biennale), Eric Tschernow (Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin), Kjell Ove Storvik (Lofoten Festivial), Helene Toresdotter (Moderna Museet)