Survival Training Station, 2021

This installation consists of four “training modules” on a quadrant: two cascades, one of sports shoes, a cascade of training jackets, and two water mills made of sports shoes mounted on bike wheels, one vertical and one horizontal. The four elements are linked by the water flowing through them, collected in the inflatable canoe, and by the ivy wrapped around the wooden structure.

The way capitalism permeates almost all aspects of sports and training illustrates one of the basic contradictions of living in this age of climate change: we train for individual well being and health, but in a world that we collectively make sick with our consumption. In this installation, cycles of regeneration entangle the desire to train with stories of the great flood. What are we training for? 

Materials: Sports shoes, bicycle wheels, inflatable canoe, fake grass, wood, sports jackets, transportation bands, rope, reusable tie-wraps, pvc tubing, electric pumps, plinth, ivy, water. 

Installation views at “Questioning Space Accumulation" exhibition (Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, December 2021)