At This Very Instant
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
February 5-10, 2026
At This Very Instant is a sound and film installation that explores movement as both a sensory and conceptual condition. The work comprises three analogue Super 8 films, presented in continuous loops, whose material textures and temporal rhythms emphasize duration, repetition, and the physicality of cinematic time. These films are accompanied by a concurrent sound composition: a six-voice madrigal extended through synthesizer orchestration.
The experimental polyphonic composition, Position, examines the relationship between body and environment, impermanence, and the embodied experience of time and futurity. Layered vocal structures and synthesizer-based textures produce a shifting sonic architecture in which notions of presence, resonance, and disappearance are held in tension. Within the installation, the exhibition space functions as an organizing framework for a rethinking of choreography. Rather than locating choreography in the human body alone, the work distributes movement across film, sound, and spatial perception. Choreography emerges as a relational system, formed through the alignment of images, acoustics, and the viewer’s physical presence.
At its core, the work engages with questions of direction and orientation, with modes of embodied, sensory perception and the ways bodies interact with and inscribe themselves into their surroundings. Themes of spatial boundaries, rupture, ecstasy, and transformation unfold across the installation, understood both materially and metaphorically. Light inscribes itself into the celluloid, sound propagates through frequency into the material resonance of space, and choreographic movement manifests within an expanded field of motion. These parallel processes articulate how artistic materials carry traces of movement and duration, rendering space as an active participant rather than a neutral container. The question of how we move within these spaces—whether image space, sound space, or planetary space—remains central. The narration resists linearity and resolution, instead remaining associative and subtle, opening an abstract field that invites reflection on movement as an ongoing, relational condition.