Ziggy on the Land of Drunken Trees, 2018

The title Ziggy on the Land of Drunken Trees (2018) refers to the eponymous central installation piece in the exhibition that explores strange, peculiar and queer marine-related phenomena. It takes us into a post-human era after the Anthropocene, a world in which non-humans assume the central position of mankind. The exhibition Ziggy on the Land of Drunken Trees creates a space between land and ocean and thus reinforces their interrelation. In an increasingly regimented world, the seas remain an outpost of anarchy and out-of-sight out-of-mind oblivion. In fact, the ocean is on the one hand side a space that enables the extreme consumerism of almost anything from everywhere by way of cargo, the space of potential deep sea metal mining and for the colonialization of tomorrow, but on the other hand it also represents our future abyss as it rises with its own uncontrollable dynamics enforced by global warming. … Jordan, however, has long stopped wondering who or what will persist in the long run. She is more interested in the way a post-human world will come about: Where will humans try to move before? Will they colonize space or even the sea? In the context of these questions Jordan, who apart from being an artist is a professional free diver and marine biology devotee, plunges into an imaginary ocean world. As a witness to the delicate and by far unexplored deep-sea world, she mediates the logic, dynamics and ungraspable materiality of the ocean. With a.o. references to the recent phenomenon of methane holes (from thawing permafrost), hydroid alien sounds, organic mechanic sea-shell sculptures, film recordings of vulnerable marine creatures, and even an oracularly singing saw, the exhibition explores a deep future and makes it momentarily imaginable, inhabitable.

A solo exhibition by Anne Duk Hee Jordan curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung at Galerie Wedding, Berlin. Medium: video installation, plaster, wood, motors, sponges, clams, one single - channel HD video, sound Text: Solvej Helweg Ovesen Technical engineer: Andreas Marckscheffel Photo credit: Trevor Lloyd Cello Performance: Mika Ebesen Trees: Herbarium Leipzig and Forstwirtschaftsbetrieben I.Mette Production: Kathrin Pohlmann Video: Kun Liang