More Land

More Land is a sculptural installation and scarce scenography inspired by the play Endgame by Samuel Beckett. It’s concerned with creating a non-linear space that is simply composed of color, textures and shapes. Through these different elements, More Land builds a temporal description and offers a way of thinking about fixation, hardening, rhythm and self-relation in the light of a digital and inherited context. The work inquires into what it means to be heirs to a historically bound emotional pattern, and how we relate to the fact that the source of our current affective structures is increasingly tied to a technologically configured processor. Heidi Nikolaisen works at the crossroads between technology, new materialism and language. In his object-oriented practice, Nikolaisen navigates, transfers and develops ideas drawn from literature, philosophy and cultural theory, and is concerned with how different materials and objects relate to and react to each other on a formalistic as well as semiotic level. In Nikolaisen's works, the material is thought of both in digital and physical space, and through an installation approach based on affect studies, technology and digital life, she deals with how one object in interaction with another can act spatially as a performer and produce knowledge and affect.
Photo: David Stjernholm