Exhibition
Heavens by Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen
12 Oct 2021 – 17 Oct 2021
Regular hours
- Tue, 12 Oct
- 12:00 – 19:00
- Wed, 13 Oct
- 12:00 – 19:00
- Thu, 14 Oct
- 12:00 – 19:00
- Fri, 15 Oct
- 12:00 – 19:00
- Sat, 16 Oct
- 12:00 – 19:00
- Sun, 17 Oct
- 12:00 – 19:00
Address
- 76 Endell Street
- London
- WC2H 9DY
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Covent Garden
Looking up to look down. Looking up to look back. Looking down to look forwards.
About
This new moving image installation, titled Heavens, starts from the theory that the octopus evolved from a virus originating in outer space, expanding our perception of ecology as a network of interplanetary relationships. Emerging from conversations with a philosopher, a writer, a psychiatrist, an astrobiologist, an astronomer and an escape artist, Heavens comprises a constellation of text, sounds and images. The piece looks to the physiology and behaviours of the octopus to reflect on human and non-human attempts to escape through acts of communal ritual, or through leaks and spillovers.
Composition by Pan Daijing features vocals of Anna Davidson and Marie Gailey. Heavens is co-commissioned by Serpentine and Malevich.io as part of Back to Earth, Serpentine’s long-term multidisciplinary project dedicated to the environment and the climate crisis.