https://aaroninker.com aaron | inker Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:13:44 +0000 https://aaroninker.com en https://aaroninker.com/home Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:13:44 +0000 aaron | inker https://aaroninker.com/home aaron | inkerhomeworksresearchvjnewsbioEN / IThomeinstallation, audio/video and socially engaged art as creative ecology. exploring the relationships between human and other(ness) at the intersection of art, science and technology.biella, it — co-founder of spazio hydro — co-curator of fluvialeongoing03<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/869e1911b80b58f1a69da255f3e7eecf1d8533d40e4c5aad610e54541bf3f672/trunk.jpg" alt="keen">keengenerative web installation2026 — ongoing<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08a5d64e94cce6a8c28dd2012af410108dd25bd8e37c062dd80dd2d863afbc77/image.jpg" alt="bricks">bricksa/v live performance, installation, workshop2024 — ongoing<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53d4f10dc2283ae09fe778416295322bf00fc454399ba80a86546874fe8ab0dd/cover.jpg" alt="unæntrhopic devices">unæntrhopic devicesinstallation2021 — ongoingresearchall →theory fiction: the capacity of artistic and cultural products and processes to fuse theoretical elements [philosophy, academic texts, scientific data] with narrative and aesthetic ones [speculative fiction, science fiction, worldbuilding]. like artistic practice, a tool to narrate the complexity of the contemporary world, against the extraction of resources and data and the post-truth drift of storytelling. here art suspends ontology: new worlds, alien points of view, a new balance between human and non-human.curatingFluvialepublic programme on the human/non-human relationship and the nature-culture dialectic, Spazio Hydro, since 2020platformOsservatorio sul Torrenteinterdisciplinary research platform on the Cervo torrent as a commonspaceSpazio Hydroindependent cultural centre in Biella — co-founder and facilitatorwritingpublicationsBiodiversità Records (2026), PADA Studios (2026), Krill Magazine (2025), Public Pressure (2023), Kabul Magazine (2021), Roots Routes #27 (2018)works 2010 — 2026yeartitlemediumwith<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/869e1911b80b58f1a69da255f3e7eecf1d8533d40e4c5aad610e54541bf3f672/trunk.jpg" alt="">2026—keenweb installation, generative code, environmental data—<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/08a5d64e94cce6a8c28dd2012af410108dd25bd8e37c062dd80dd2d863afbc77/image.jpg" alt="">2024—bricksa/v live performance, installation, workshop—<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/e6101082ed9b63e46f1ef34cb5fe42f940aeda19cda5138fa5ccde1bba2bb8b1/DSC_0023.JPG" alt="">2024riiseinstallation — raw clay, glass, water—<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/267d3ea66e8b35fb02a3131560dd9f98dca2dd21f74ead6a70f5f7d55af7dd03/grammar_pic5.jpg" alt="">2024grammarvideo—<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/ff67900f7c411bca55c1a0d3af0924eb6957e50c838d1d9516f5d95f16d8cf83/dark-matter_img-1.png" alt="">2023dark mattervideo, nft—<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/aff45c6dc1a3d871f92e1803825694bfafb7a57ac5e8e54bc68d43f809a6a0dd/Cervo-Project-Room5.jpg" alt="">2021cervo project room | archivearchive installationAnnalisa Zegna<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/53d4f10dc2283ae09fe778416295322bf00fc454399ba80a86546874fe8ab0dd/cover.jpg" alt="">2021—unæntrhopic devicesinstallation—<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/7f24e6ab71e2e656efcf98b93a4dcb43c4dec7d3348af4e011ecb11d3e4c5a01/luria-still.jpg" alt="">2021luriaaudio-video installationAnnalisa Zegna<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/5dda1e5eb6ed0df896ca345458f879a05bd18c4c0123f2caae65fd2c009e6058/hb-logo.jpg" alt="">2020hotel baikonurradio podcast series, 30’Michele Poletti (voice)<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/b29f0f74fade87531b112799bb165f7b95b96995ebad4b4acd85e8aa5491b625/saarv_1.jpg" alt="">2019saarvaudio-video installation, live performanceAnnalisa Zegna, Kreggo<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/0025e9886ea3b81251f6d575fbb83815a6e13a6cbfc21d8002908dceb7f71c15/8TpbmLoz.jpg" alt="">2019untitledinstallation, performanceBrian Hartley<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/4ce9af5aeeda5b9c9225ae98cf8fd958e0080f1466808c62a4b0b21421767de7/IMG_4931.JPG" alt="">2018terra crudaclay workshopsAnnalisa Zegna, Hydro<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/a274dede9e62ed3b979ea4a7fec01d6de5a1e28b6f76a6a011a528538d5204ab/irrisolto-2019.jpg" alt="">2016—irrisoltocollages on paper, performanceAnnalisa Zegna<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/d46142b591ca8f5c5259a899934ff2f47249599370b5a6aba26db21736bc8dfa/anatomy-of-darkness_web_h-1.jpeg" alt="">2013anatomy of darknessvideo—<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/6d3a938e88fd03ecfb88d9468699c048e91bfd4ae7adb8f996b658d331a81906/unheimliche.jpeg" alt="">2013unheimlichevideo—<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/5a21bbbbaef9aeeb90b26e079c54bf6a6eb04be781d08c6dde6882354a7ffc9a/_MAG4706.jpg" alt="">2012liminalaudio-video live performance—<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/86369580c7f468068d9699264a2aade6d5d06d92816b37e8481a62b75b7e8c58/notes_v2_h.jpeg" alt="">2011notes for escapologyvideo—<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/2e5cf5bf6385b5020de979c19564a145a5216438427018023823216ad8bbdb99/Schermata-2020-03-02-alle-16.50.09.png" alt="">2010below20archive, website, publications—<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/cf89fc370c9e90725f28aa822a8bd49d1f5e681d2a9676419bc79714f8f0a4c0/etude-per-the-void.jpg" alt="">2010étude for the voidreflecting cube of dark glass—<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/a2eff4d4386f367aa4506434fd437a638fa006c852a9602036c098d1212103c4/Schermata-2020-02-29-alle-17.51.19.png" alt="">2010warpaudio live performance—vjresident vj for Offbeat/Club Nation (Magazzini Generali, BASE, Triennale — Milan) and Spazio Hydro. live visuals for clubs, events and international festivals.2026Four Tet / The Blaze / Sven Väth / Toy Tonicsall dates 2018—2026 →newsarchive →15.08.26PADA Studios Research Residency18.02.26A Night with… Modeselektor02—07.04.25Live Performers Meeting26.03.25Glitch Lab — tutoringalsovideo — directing, filming and editing: music videos for Sergio Sorrentino, Luca Sigurtà, Alessandro Deledda, Luminance Ratio and others.bio / cvcontactinstagram© aaron inker https://aaroninker.com/visual-artist Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:50:52 +0000 aaron | inker https://aaroninker.com/visual-artist works https://aaroninker.com/keen-1 Sun, 31 May 2026 16:33:02 +0000 aaron | inker https://aaroninker.com/keen-1 aaron | inkerhomeworksresearchvjnewsbioEN / ITworks / 2026keenongoingyear2026 — ongoingformatweb installationmaterialsgenerative code, real-time environmental dataplanted1 May 2026<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/2000/i/869e1911b80b58f1a69da255f3e7eecf1d8533d40e4c5aad610e54541bf3f672/trunk.jpg" alt="keen">see the plant growing →Keen is a long-term generative work conceived as a companionship between the human and the other-than-human.A virtual silver birch grows in real time, at the true pace of a tree, its form shaped day after day by the weather and air quality recorded wherever the artist goes: his movements through the world become the very climate in which the virtual tree lives. It is less the portrait of a place than of a relationship in motion. The birch stands in a virtual landscape yet is carried along, a travelling companion whose seasons are assembled from the cities and countries the artist passes through, its rhythm and health bound to a human life and the directions it takes.Its growing environment becomes a metaphorical visualisation of something real: the dense web of bonds that ties human life to the natural world, to the air, the weather and the quality of a shared biosphere. An interdependence that usually stays invisible is made perceptible through the technological medium and the data that drive it.Planted on 1 May 2026 and conceived to grow for up to a hundred years, the tree accumulates its environment as form: each season of light, temperature and pollution is inscribed in the geometry of trunk, branches and canopy, until the work becomes the record of a shared life, of where it has travelled and the air it has breathed.Built in the browser and fed by a continuous stream of environmental data, keen treats the artwork not as an object but as a living companion, entangled with a person and the climate they move through: a slow archive that returns the viewer to non-human time and to the incremental scale at which an ecology writes itself.<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eeb1e97704618fb9b333d27b48a813fa05f2c7756a8467933699189bfc76e48f/root.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2273864c9a951bf70eb21c9157d1805f34318668bfe6cf6d1028d0a1367b676/branch.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/464ce2a2c262f3eff0721541e41530ab4400115c85f6e369df5b486fd4161b80/pianta-4.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2faaadcf23d377d74258ae4e94a2930b0edda528afa56290e6f250007cb3a22f/pianta-2.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10821da08da61dd526e695edd8eab29259374798258a68fc3456cb04421b244e/foglia.jpg" alt="">← all worksnextbricks →bio / cvcontactinstagram© aaron inker https://aaroninker.com/riise Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:53:51 +0000 aaron | inker https://aaroninker.com/riise aaron | inkerhomeworksresearchvjnewsbioEN / ITworks / 2024riiseyear2024formatinstallationmaterialsraw clay, glass, watercommissioned byMunicipality of Rovasenda<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/2000/i/e6101082ed9b63e46f1ef34cb5fe42f940aeda19cda5138fa5ccde1bba2bb8b1/DSC_0023.JPG" alt="riise">Riise is a sculptural installation that turns the agricultural landscape of Rovasenda, the municipality that commissioned the work, into a dynamic miniature ecosystem.Clay is extracted from different rice paddies across the municipal territory and shaped by hand into cubes, each one polished with the Japanese dorodango technique. Every cube stands for a specific location: together they form a map of the rice fields, translated into matter.The cubes rest on a glass base holding a shallow layer of water, both display and active component of the piece. Water, clay and open air create the conditions for a micro-ecosystem to develop: the sculpture changes over time, degrades and is colonised, mirroring on a small scale the ecological dynamics of the rice fields.Riise works as an artistic model of a local ecosystem. Each cube maps a precise point of Rovasenda's agricultural landscape, and the installation as a whole reproduces, on a miniature scale, the relationships that shape it: human cultivation, native materials, water and the living systems that settle in them. A living sculpture that evolves through its exposure to the environment, it invites a reflection on the complex relationship between agricultural practice, natural materials and living systems.<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f8444d7b4059892213cf12cf9fbcd03b43341a86f3fbe485bf559ec10d93294/DSC_0014.JPG" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4664857bf5811d775f1601b9e5ae28d2d8f8da220b9a84f4343041ce5af75d39/DSC_0019.JPG" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01f62147d31cc9d8b6bb54c98dc1a55cf3503af1bb8e7770bd520cbf88eb0102/DSC_0015.JPG" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45a15fd49efdcbd3e794d5c3ca5196f3add927cde34d6ab45ec18ac39a4ccfbb/DSC_0021.JPG" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c87337db0c8ccc5eb59febfcb3f603f975a59bb5763ae7ebfdaaf76069f6c63d/DSC_0008.JPG" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7de60e6907784f53ec56483aaf27e2fc8949238376b1913ee8eb7c954a333167/Screenshot-2025-01-04-alle-18.03.46.png" alt="">← all worksnextgrammar →bio / cvcontactinstagram© aaron inker https://aaroninker.com/grammar Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:28:11 +0000 aaron | inker https://aaroninker.com/grammar aaron | inkerhomeworksresearchvjnewsbioEN / ITworks / 2024grammaryear2024formatvideoGrammar is a visual set rooted in the history of visual scores and concrete poetry, and inspired by the early experiments of video art.Grammar was presented as a vj set at LPM — Live Performers Meeting, M'Hamid El Ghislane (MA), in March 2024.<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d938620dc2114a34f1a06cf4bd231f90c1a496e5bd5fe4d5b4d2a25b885ce6d2/poster.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/267d3ea66e8b35fb02a3131560dd9f98dca2dd21f74ead6a70f5f7d55af7dd03/grammar_pic5.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b540fc929664af83318cb4c2b5fd27b94410b4fb8209bbeeeba3791017ba14d/grammar_pic1.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83d067f1eb243af97323de45d55bdca0264c3a0869d011f3ba2d8d0a9f1b2b5b/grammar_pic4.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1bf7daeacf63801aadb8a2c0d23e4ca1d2e3affb7c1eab5ebc8d34a7bb89f92/grammar_pic2.jpg" alt="">← all worksnextdark matter →bio / cvcontactinstagram© aaron inker https://aaroninker.com/dark-matter Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:22:46 +0000 aaron | inker https://aaroninker.com/dark-matter aaron | inkerhomeworksresearchvjnewsbioEN / ITworks / 2023dark matteryear2023formatvideo, nftDark Matter is an audiovisual experiment built on images generated by different artificial intelligences, articulated and filtered in response to the audio track.The work draws on the imaginary of science fiction and futurism. Dark matter, the unknown substance thought to make up most of the universe, becomes the image of a space still to be explored, and the images generated by artificial intelligences feed this same imaginary. In the live set, the concert itself becomes dark matter: an unknown material, and a space, physical too, to be explored.In the set, these images lose their stability: they are fragmented, layered and driven by sound, in an exploration of synaesthesia and of the interaction between image and sound. Dark Matter was presented as a vj set at LPM — Live Performers Meeting, Münster (DE), in April 2023.Dark Matter is also collectible as an NFT at this link.<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a29e0f1647e4349d4ba7845d047a0f1e92b579e0588c6c75ffb1113180fa2c9/poster.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff67900f7c411bca55c1a0d3af0924eb6957e50c838d1d9516f5d95f16d8cf83/dark-matter_img-1.png" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2dbe43f6c02535bc82803172eb206e93afe0b3b55ff94c74eb08d342a13731a/dark-matter_img-3.png" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d69d9aeecd088405c201dcbec43b9ad91682b0e1c938018aa84936bac7fe154/dark-matter_img-2.png" alt="">← all worksnextcervo project room | archive →bio / cvcontactinstagram© aaron inker https://aaroninker.com/cervo-project-room-archive Mon, 28 Feb 2022 13:22:20 +0000 aaron | inker https://aaroninker.com/cervo-project-room-archive aaron | inkerhomeworksresearchvjnewsbioEN / ITworks / 2021cervo project room | archiveyear2021formatarchive, installationwithAnnalisa Zegnadeveloped withSpazio Hydro, Accademia Unidee<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/2000/i/aff45c6dc1a3d871f92e1803825694bfafb7a57ac5e8e54bc68d43f809a6a0dd/Cervo-Project-Room5.jpg" alt="cervo project room | archive">The Cervo project room gathers a year of research by Annalisa Zegna and aaron inker on the Cervo torrent, a central element of the Biella territory, through a reflection on ecology, environment and the relationship between human and non-human.The project room comprises two parts, an archive and an installation space, and was presented at Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, from 30 October to 31 December 2021.The archive is a work in progress and the first phase of Osservatorio sul Torrente, an interdisciplinary research platform on the river as a common and as a central element of the social, political, cultural and economic development of the Biella area. It collects stones, clay, wood, maps, notes, intuitions, correlations and historical documents, open to free reading and consultation, to generate a link, or a different link, with the stream and with the whole territory. The installation space hosts luria and unæntrhopic devices, works that try to suspend reality and reconsider it, conveying the vertigo of facing matter and concepts beyond the human scale.Superposition. In quantum physics, the superposition principle holds that a system is not fixed and unique but the set of all its possible states, co-present. It collapses into a single form, what is called reality, only through a measurement or an interaction. Humans likewise build their reality through their relationship with the environment, a relationship largely mediated by culture, science included. In the Western world this construction has produced a dichotomy between nature and culture, with humans placing themselves above and outside the world they try to dominate: a system of thought whose consequences are now readable on a planetary scale, under the many nuances of the term Anthropocene.As the scientist investigates the laws that build the world, the artist can act on the cultural construction of reality. Curator Nicolas Bourriaud describes contemporary art as an exercise in mending this dualism, reintegrating animals, plants, minerals, machines and technology into culture. Artist and scientist share creativity, intuition and the need to give their findings an imaginative power able to build worlds. As David Graeber writes: “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we do, and that we could just as easily do differently.”The project room is an attempt to suspend ontology: a space where countless realities overlap, where new worlds, alien points of view and a new balance between human and non-human become possible. Like humans, and like the river.<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46d4128640c8fed48d58ec39b28bdff57d2aa570c24fbef99ae9f65bbfa33182/Cervo-Project-Room6.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46b6af4d97f233acf691fe2e96c3a29608fe3dc12b71963f057fe4b072ce1a32/_MG_5169_1340_c.jpeg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef14ff471472e80631b48c98d53e0d1bd119212027e34c85d3c64363440d7050/_MG_5202_1340_c.jpeg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55d47af25292994c4db1b211da7bd4924390901a4b19fc0a3ca50207637073b7/_MG_5138_1340_c.jpeg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23bc39aa5beacca47393284df9bba75313419342871124096e8d239e7a494e92/_MG_5205_1340_c.jpeg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3eda346d7b47bd9cfec727cd111ec855f3a4b19c33e14b7df3777eaa28139fd9/_MG_5140_1340_c.jpeg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b700dde6be877873ff4beab206eb894ee6bec812d61da877e8a12c86cb5aabb6/_MG_5192_1340_c.jpeg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/243eaf11749cb287c0c633e64fe3e8f6547bb93670b913d25aa06d215787e9a7/_MG_5153_1340_c.jpeg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11579bfc57c60108899a8e8f5ff5efe631ea4ca26e9711a212f67b7c074ac7b4/_MG_5154_1340_c.jpeg" alt="">← all worksnextunæntrhopic devices →bio / cvcontactinstagram© aaron inker https://aaroninker.com/unantrhopic-devices Sun, 09 Jan 2022 15:27:49 +0000 aaron | inker https://aaroninker.com/unantrhopic-devices aaron | inkerhomeworksresearchvjnewsbioEN / ITworks / 2021unæntrhopic devicesongoingyear2021 — ongoingformatinstallation<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/2000/i/53d4f10dc2283ae09fe778416295322bf00fc454399ba80a86546874fe8ab0dd/cover.jpg" alt="unæntrhopic devices">Unæntrhopic devices is an ongoing series of objects that express an impossible will: to be un-entropic and un-anthropic at the same time.Entropy measures the disorder of a system. Systems tend to increase it, as energy degrades from more usable to less usable forms. Most human activities consume energy to fight this tendency and put things in order, an unconsciously paradoxical gesture, since every act of ordering accelerates the overall degradation. The devices inhabit this paradox: they build order and consume energy in order to make visible the anthropic effects that degrade reality and the ecosystem.#1 Paradigm (glass cubes, fossil wood). Five glass cubes isolate fossil wood from plants that lived between two and five million years ago, a scale immeasurable against the human one. The title refers to Thomas Kuhn, who described scientific progress as a succession of incommensurable paradigms, chosen less for being truer than for capturing the interest of a community. Paradigm holds at once the evidence of entities and times that surround humans without being understandable, and an invitation to imagine narratives of reality built on non-human metrics.#2 Undecaying pebbles (raw clay, pebbles). Pebbles are sealed in a clay coating polished with the Japanese dorodango technique. In geological time, a stone worn by the river keeps eroding until it becomes sand or clay. Here the same clay taken from the stream is used to preserve the pebble against that fate. The durability of the gesture, and therefore its possibility, remains uncertain, as does the chance of an intact dorodango not made of clay alone.#3 Fluctuation (fired clay, iron wire). Below the atom, quantum physics describes matter as a foam of space-time, a discontinuous structure shaped by quantum fluctuations from which the solid world emerges. Fluctuation relates this unstable nature of matter to the constant movement of the stream, solidifying strings of clay taken from the same water: a mixture of its finest particles, water and phyllosilicate minerals.<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bdb1aa876d5552b97a941bb4cc0306817b01ecaf12f33a121f9f9a1d0669dc14/paradygm.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/699c6dbccd68e25f0a7581bffb4580759ff773cfc200ce09ec3bbf7e1e4da41c/pebbles.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d72f163b88e25a353e8316bff58817fc29fb83c1e6e43a94f105e1a478509dd7/fluctuation.jpg" alt="">← all worksnextluria →bio / cvcontactinstagram© aaron inker https://aaroninker.com/luria Sun, 09 Jan 2022 14:32:12 +0000 aaron | inker https://aaroninker.com/luria aaron | inkerhomeworksresearchvjnewsbioEN / ITworks / 2021luriayear2021formataudio-video installationwithAnnalisa Zegna<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/2000/i/7f24e6ab71e2e656efcf98b93a4dcb43c4dec7d3348af4e011ecb11d3e4c5a01/luria-still.jpg" alt="luria">Luria is an audio-video installation that reinterprets a figure of Alpine folklore to imagine the river flood as an agent rather than a threat.In the popular legends of the Alpine valleys, the lüria is a malicious spirit or a fantastic animal, and also the spirit of the otter, that lures into the whirlpools of a flooding torrent those who stare too long at the swirling water: a warning, especially to children, to keep away from the river in flood. Otters once inhabited these torrents, the Cervo included: considered dirty and nasty, associated with evil female figures and prostitutes, they were hunted down and killed.The video gives body to the Luria as a hybrid between the mineral, vegetable, animal and human kingdoms, a dancing figure who inhabits the river and personifies the flood, the turbid water that drags the territory with it and changes it during storms. Overturning the negative connotation of the flood, and of the otherness once projected onto it, the work draws on popular mythology to propose a vision of the river as an agent in an ever-changing territory.“Periodically the river overflows in these spaces. ‘Flooding’ is the word they use, but in truth it’s not an overflow, it’s a remembering. Remembering where it used to be. Every waterway has a perfect memory and always tries to get back to where it was.”Toni Morrison, The Site of Memory, 1998Luria was presented in the Cervo project room, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (2021), and in Esseri Reciproci at Imbarchino del Valentino with PAV – Parco Arte Vivente, Turin (2022).cinematography: aaron inker, Damiano Andreotti · dance and choreography: Ester Fogliano · music: Crushed Curcuma · masks and costume design: Annalisa Zegna<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/052c824ab3198400dda4c18974ddd6b39ed9688b2318759cc012585db368eab0/Schermata-2021-12-29-alle-21.23.52_1000.png" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29aff0e7204d117e61e898192e46f9ae35a5093399b09eba3570b87f3f3da1c4/Schermata-2021-12-29-alle-21.24.57_1000.png" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8aa77edec9eb7590e7c927d3c362404113974a4ded77baeae30ab1ac214dcb8/Schermata-2021-12-29-alle-21.21.32_1000.png" alt=""><img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf87317aaa9c8960beb12cdeca1c9dee1932237b61cff19222aba6849225fee0/Schermata-2021-12-29-alle-21.28.11_1000.png" alt="">← all worksnexthotel baikonur →bio / cvcontactinstagram© aaron inker https://aaroninker.com/hotel-baikonur Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:27:58 +0000 aaron | inker https://aaroninker.com/hotel-baikonur aaron | inkerhomeworksresearchvjnewsbioEN / ITworks / 2020hotel baikonuryear2020formatradio podcast series, 30’, italianvoiceMichele Polettienglish editionHotel Baikonur International, 2026<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/2000/i/5dda1e5eb6ed0df896ca345458f879a05bd18c4c0123f2caae65fd2c009e6058/hb-logo.jpg" alt="hotel baikonur">Hotel Baikonur is an exercise in speculative narration that uses science fiction to bring scientific knowledge back into storytelling.Social media and the growing entanglement of real and virtual have weakened the ability to select and trust information, while the imprint of marketing has moved narration from facts to post-truth. Science, history and culture are caught between technical dissemination and the race for audience. Meanwhile, the need to make sense of reality is filled by conspiracies and self-referential stories. After all, storytelling is a biological function.Hotel Baikonur works on that function. Like the artist's practice of theory-fiction, it treats speculative fiction and science as allies: both generate worlds that are plausible and understandable. The process is a logical inversion, in which science fiction becomes the key to telling real news, discoveries and scientific models, and the narrative device restores the marvel and the weight of deep research.“Hotel Baikonur is an interplanetary broadcast in a precarious balance between science, science fiction and speculative fiction. The things you will hear are true or imagined. There are real things on the edge of the incredible, and things imagined on the edge of reality. Many of the things you will hear will be a mixture of real and imaginary, past, present and future. And a lot of the things you will hear will be music.”The series of 30-minute episodes in Italian, voiced by Michele Poletti, has run since May 2020 and counts more than forty episodes. An English edition, Hotel Baikonur International, started in 2026.← all worksnextsaarv →bio / cvcontactinstagram© aaron inker